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Campus Safety Directors: A Leadership Frame Analysis, Ross A. Wolf Jan 1998

Campus Safety Directors: A Leadership Frame Analysis, Ross A. Wolf

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

This study is based on leadership frame theory as developed by Drs. Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal who merged several different schools of theory into four different frames: structural, human resource, political, and symbolic. In July, 1998 the Leadership Orientation (Self) survey, developed by Bolman and Deal (1990a) was distributed to 343 campus safety directors at American public four-year postsecondary institutions. A return of 190 (55.4%) useable survey instruments was obtained in this study.

The utilization of leadership frames by campus safety directors was examined as well as the relationship between frame usage and age, education level, length of time …