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An Investigative Study Of The Difficulties Experienced By Engineers Transitioning Into Leadership/Management Positions, Joseph Alan Wilde

Theses and Dissertations

The traditional engineering career has been defined by two career paths: technical and managerial. An entry level engineer typically did not elect his/her career path until at least five years into a career. This meant that only a portion of engineers needed to learn management and leadership skills and then usually not until in the professional environment. Since this career distinction was not made until years into an engineer's professional life universities were not developing leadership/management skills in their students. Times have changed. With the globalization of the economy, and the increased competition in the marketplace, companies have realized that …

How Personality And Self-Identity Impact The Effects Of Leader Member Exchange On Role Stressors And Organizational Outcomes, Edward Rickamer Hoover

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

This study investigated how followers' personality and self-identity moderated their leader's ability to influence organizational outcomes through management of role stressors experienced by the follower. Data was obtained through large group testing, sample size equaled 232, with performance measures being provided by supervisors (43% return rate). Results demonstrated that while Leader Member Exchange (LMX) had a linear relationship with role ambiguity and role conflict, it had a curvilinear relationship with role overload. Thus providing evidence that under certain conditions leadership can lead to negative outcomes. Furthermore, it was demonstrated that LMX indirectly influences both affective and cognitive variables through role …

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Effective Leadership In A Service Center Setting: An Analysis Of How To Increase Tenure Among Employees Through A Blended Leadership Model, Larissa Martin

Theses and Graduate Projects

Service Centers experience high turnover rates among employees. Creating a healthy working environment through effective leadership in a service center setting can be difficult due to the particular features of a service center. This analysis of the organizational literature on service centers leads to the development of a blended leadership model. Using the Transformational and Transactional Leadership models with an emphasis on role clarity, empowerment, trust, approachability of the leader, employee/leader relationship, contingent versus non-contingent behavior, and monitoring, the blended leadership model incorporates these concepts to provide an ideal type that would guide a call center leader in helping the …

Generative Characteristics As Antecedents Of Engagement, Thomas H. Carlson

Student Scholarship

Organizations and their members at all levels are increasingly expected to perform, adapt, and to do 'more with less'. Positive psychology and appreciative inquiry inform us that as organizations strive to become more productive, innovative, and agile their interests and objectives are well-served by understanding that they have at-hand greater capacity for performance and learning than perhaps they had realized. Positive psychology emphasizes the role of character strengths and virtues suggesting that individual characteristics, whether dispositional or acquired, differentiate between those who are better able to contribute to organizational performance and learning and those who are less so. Appreciative inquiry …

Identifying And Addressing Issues Faced By New Community College Presidents, Anthony Raymond Miksa

Dissertations

The American community college system is in the midst of a leadership crisis. Community college presidents are retiring at an alarming rate. Further exacerbating the leadership crisis is the lack of qualified candidates to replace the retiring presidents. Senior administrators at community colleges who are the natural choice to replace the retirees are also retiring or choosing not to pursue a presidency. The overarching purpose driving this research was to identify the challenges encountered by new community college presidents, seek to comprehend the information gathering method utilized by new presidents to identify challenges, and finally, to present the strategies the …

Why Diversity Still Needs A Champion, Nancy Cantor

Chancellor's Collection

Although The New York Times has already observed that President Barack Obama is an "omnipresent icebreaker" in the national conversation about race, now is a good time to recall the President's warning that we will not "get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy" and that race is something in American history and life "that we've never really worked through." Diversity—and not only in race (though importantly race)—is an agenda that still needs champions, on campus as well as in Washington, D.C.

Teens Shine A Light On Young Heroes: A Speak Out Military Kids Video Project, Gloria Kraft, Rachel Lyons

Journal of Extension

A group of military and non-military teens led by New Jersey 4-H mobilized the statewide Speak Out for Military Kids (SOMK) project. The goal is to raise community awareness of the issues facing youth of deployed military parents. This article describes the first step of the project—the design and production of Young Heroes, an 18-minute video featuring interviews with youth who have personal experience with deployment. The SOMK participants not only produced a video, but also mastered new skills while performing a community service. Though recently completed, Young Heroes is reaching diverse audiences.

Foundational Competencies: Innovation In Legal Education, David E. Van Zandt

Faculty Working Papers

Spurred by a rapidly changing legal environment and a desire to differentiate and maximize the success of our graduates, Northwestern Law recently completed a major strategic planning initiative resulting in a revolutionary report entitled Plan 2008: Preparing Great Leaders for the Changing World. Plan 2008 is the most recent installment of a long-term process to enhance our student quality and programs. The new initiatives build upon a strategic plan that we have been refining since its implementation in 1998. Under the prior plan, we introduced the evaluative admissions interview and work-experience policy for applicants.1 We also added a number of …

Strategic Leadership And Innovation In High Technology Firms, Terri A. Scandura Phd

Management Faculty Articles and Papers

Did you ever wonder what the organizations that produce some of the high tech gadgets we marvel at such as the IPhone and the Blu-ray player are like? How do their leaders create and maintain a spirit of innovation that produces these hit products? High technology firms face unique challenges because of the fast paced and ever-changing landscape of their industry. Intellectual capital and innovation have become the key sources of competitive advantage in a wide range of industries and many have argued that the key to the future competitiveness of organizations in the U.S and abroad is the ability …

Religious Educators: Promoting Servant Leadership, Shane D. Lavery

Education Papers and Journal Articles

The purpose of this article is twofold. First, it proposes that servant leadership is a suitable model of leadership for religious educators. Second, it suggests reasons why religious educators should exercise servant leadership.

The paper briefly considers the history of leadership development, per se. The concept of servant leadership is then explored with particular reference to four Gospel texts: Mk 10:42-45, Mt 23:8-12, Lk 22:24-27; and Jn 13:12-17. Three reasons are then presented as to why religious educators should choose to exercise and model servant leadership for their students. These are: servant leadership is the way Jesus exercised leadership; servant …

An Analysis Of The Connection Between A Principal Development Program And Executive Leadership, David (Jay) Jones

Education Dissertations and Projects

America faces the following problems related to the supply of school principals: shortage, poor understanding of the changed role, and inadequate training. In response to problems, the state of North Carolina has implemented the School Executive Standards to evaluate principals and drive the professional development of them. The purpose of this descriptive study was to report on the perceptions of principals and assistant principals regarding the connection between a district level principal development program and preparation to meet the "North Carolina School Executive Standards". A sequential QUAN-QUAL analysis was applied to data collected through a survey and individual interviews. Measures …

An Exploration Of Identification Of Leadership For Gifted Students, Christine Estelle Phillips

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Leadership has been designated a talent area in federal and state definitions of gifted students who require differentiated programs since the Marland Report came out in 1972, yet it remains the least discussed of the curricular areas for gifted students. The purpose of this study was to examine the perceptions and attitudes of administrators of gifted programs in Colorado and Idaho concerning identifying students gifted in leadership. Public K-12 school districts in Colorado and Idaho were surveyed using a researcher-created survey including questions targeting attitudes and twelve questions specific to leadership traits. Response rate was 51%. In general, respondents indicated …

An Examination Of Communities Of Practice On Leadership Capacity And Organizational Functioning: A Case Study, Mary J. Meduna

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

While reformation of the U.S. public school system has been at the forefront of public discourse since the 1980s, the system continues to fall short of the expectations of employers, communities, and parents. The responsibility for a successful school tends to fall on the shoulders of the building principal (Cotton, 2003). Research in the field ofEducational leadership has isolated specific principal responsibilities that impact student achievement (Cotton; Edmunds, 1979; Hallinger & Heck, 1998; Leithwood, Louis, Anderson, & Wahlstrom, 2004; Leithwood & Riehl, 2003; Marzano, Waters, & McNulty, 2005). The assumption is that if principals would apply these responsibilities, student achievement …

Characteristics Of An Effective Administrative Leadership Team, Todd D. Bess

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to determine the personal characteristics of the administrative team members and how these personal characteristics impact the administrative practices of an administrative team focused on positively impacting school performance. Descriptive statistics and multiple regression were used to interpret and analyze the data for the study. Forty-one Indiana public school corporations participated in the study and a total of 186 team members submitted complete responses to the administrative team survey. This survey was developed by the researcher to measure administrative team effectiveness utilizing the self-rating of the six administrative team practices of planning, implementing, …

Gathering Leadership Momentum Across Great Distances: Creating An Online Community Of Practice, Erin Dini-Davis, Danielle Theiss-White

Library Faculty & Staff Publications

At the 2007 Mountain Plains Library Association Leadership (MPLA) Institute, held in New Mexico, USA, eight academic librarians formed an online multi-state, multigenerational community of practice. MPLA is a twelve-state library association within the United States. Using Google Groups™, the members formed an online environment called the MPLA Community of Practice for continuing development of the leadership skills presented at the Institute. These early-career librarians represent diverse educational backgrounds and work in libraries serving varied populations with differing disciplinary emphases. The group meets monthly with each member preparing and facilitating online discussions, complete with personal assessments, topical readings, and questions. …

A Framework For Examining Leadership In Extreme Contexts, Sean T. Hannah, Mary Uhl-Bien, Bruce Avolio, Fabrice L. Cavarretta

Department of Management: Faculty Publications

In this review, we develop a framework to guide future research and to examine the execution of leadership in extreme contexts. We start by defining and distinguishing extreme contexts from crisis and other contexts. A five component typology is developed comprised of magnitude of consequences, form of threat, probability of consequences, location in time and physical or psychological–social proximity. We discuss the unique influences these components have on leadership processes in extreme contexts examining the relevance of organization types such as critical action and high reliability organizations. Further, we present a set of factors that may attenuate or intensify the …

A Meta-Analytic Review Of Leadership Impact Research: Experimental And Quasi-Experimental Studies, Bruce J. Avolio, Rebecca J. Reichard, Sean T. Hannah, Fred O. Walumbwa, Adrian Chan

United States Army: Publications

In this study we set out to conduct a comprehensive quantitative research analysis of literature reporting results on the causal impact of leadership by focusing on examining what we refer to as ‘leadership interventions.’ We defined leadership interventions as those studies where the researcher overtly manipulated leadership as the independent variable through training, assignment, scenario or other means. Our focus included both examining experimental and quasi-experimental as well as lab and field studies conducted in public and private organizations. Our goal was to address a simple question: do leadership interventions have the intended impact and if so to what degree …

A Multilevel Approach To Building And Leading Learning Organizations, Sean T Hannah, Paul B. Lester

United States Army: Publications

A multilevel model is offered proposing that organizational learning is an interdependent system where effective leaders enact intervention strategies at the individual (micro), network (meso), and systems (macro) levels. We suggest that leaders approach organizational learning by setting the conditions and structure for learning to occur, while limiting direct interference in the actual creative processes. First, leaders may increase the level of developmental readiness of individual followers, thereby increasing their motivation and ability to approach learning experiences and adapt their mental models. These individuals then serve as catalysts of learning within and between social networks. Second, leaders may promote the …

Moving Heaven And Earth: Administrative Search And Selection Processes And The Experience Of An African American Woman Senior Administrator, Kim R. Barnett-Johnson

All-Inclusive List of Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this case/phenomenological study was to examine a collegiate administrative search and selection process and the experience of an African American woman who was selected to the position of chancellor. A case concerning the search process of a regional campus of Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana was identified and chosen. In-depth interviews were conducted with three participants in the search and selection process. Each individual played a significant and separate role during various phases of the search and selection process. Results indicated that there were four key themes to emerge from the investigation: diversity issues; the search …

Cl 610 Theology Of Servant Leadership, Daryl L. Smith

Syllabi

1. Read and DIGEST the article ÒServant-Leadership (Robert K. Greenleaf) on website: Also, spend some time nosing around 2. Real Power, 3rd Edition by Janet O. Hagberg (Salem, WI: Sheffield Publishing, 2003). ISBN: 1-879215-46-2 (304 pages). 3. Journey to the East by Herman Hesse (NY: Noonday Press, 1956). ISBN: 0374500363 (118 pages). 4. In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership by Henri Nouwen (NY: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 1993) ISBN: 0824512596 (81 pages). 5. Firms of Endearment by Raj Sisodia, David B. Wolfe & Jag Sheth (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2007) ISBN-10: 0-13-187372-5 (271 pages) 6. …

Adaptive Leadership: Leadership Theory Or Theoretical Derivative?, Bill Cojocar

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

Today’s public and private business leaders and leaders of our Armed Forces are faced with challenges that require leadership that is capable of tackling and solving complex problems and issues, with collective, collaborative, timely effective, and innovative solutions. This set of challenges requires leadership that spans the spectrum of leadership theories, traits, and stylistic approaches that is very adaptive, yet direct in nature. This type of leadership is defined as ‘adaptive leadership’ and is a style of leadership that is developing into a new theory of its own, evolving from situational, transformational, contingency, and complexity theories, as described by Nastanski, …

Leadership And Organisational Culture: Can The Ceo And Senior Executive Teams In Bureaucratic Organisations Influence Organisational Culture?, Glenys Drew

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

The pressure on higher education to embrace a change agenda to cope with an increasingly complex operating environment has been growing over recent years (Hanna, 2003; Pick, 2003). Hanna (2003) writes that “higher education institutions must change – and, indeed, are changing – to meet future needs,” (p. 26) and that they will need to address a number of strategic challenges as they “transform themselves to meet the demands of an increasingly complex and dynamic environment.” (p. 26) These changes may require embracing different ways of operating, forging new and different partnerships to attract funds and undertake research, and streamlining …

Peer Mentor Leadership Training: Theory And Implementation, James Rubin

Academic Leadership: The Online Journal (2003-2012)

College is a time of major transition for young adults. It presents a unique opportunity as decisions regarding a wide variety of options unfold for the first time without being under the guidance and eye of a guardian. Chosen paths offer a glimpse into the inner motivations behind one’s character and the interest that many students have shown for peer mentoring exemplifies traits of benevolence and leadership. In addition to providing peers with a positive role model, there are opportunities for mentors to expand on many interpersonal qualities that are important for success in a multitude of contexts. Integral to …

Cl 610 Theology Of Servant Leadership, Daryl L. Smith

Syllabi

1. Read and DIGEST the article ÒServant-Leadership (Robert K. Greenleaf) on website: Also, spend some time nosing around 2. Real Power, 3rd Edition by Janet O. Hagberg (Salem, WI: Sheffield Publishing, 2003). ISBN: 1-879215-46-2 (304 pages). 3. Journey to the East by Herman Hesse (NY: Noonday Press, 1956). ISBN: 0374500363 (118 pages). 4. In the Name of Jesus: Reflections on Christian Leadership by Henri Nouwen (NY: Crossroad/Herder & Herder, 1993) ISBN: 0824512596 (81 pages). 5. Firms of Endearment by Raj Sisodia, David B. Wolfe & Jag Sheth (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Wharton School Publishing, 2007) ISBN-10: 0-13-187372-5 (271 pages) 6. …

Cl 651 Women In Ministry, Zaida Maldonado Perez

Syllabi

• Childers, Jana, Editor. Birthing the Sermon: Women Preachers on the Creative Process, St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2001. • Clouse & Clouse, Editors. Women in Ministry: Four Views. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1989. • Granz, Stanley J. and Denise Muir Kjesbo, Women in the Church. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press, 1995. • Keener, Craig S. Paul, Women & Wives: Marriage and Women's Ministry in the Letters of Paul, Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1992.

The Effects Of Participation In College Curricular And Cocurricular Programs On Engineering Alumni Professional Leadership Practices, Patricia Yolanda Blyden

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

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Exploring A Definition Of Leadership And The Biography Of Dr. Frank B. Wynn, David Clyde Walters

Graduate Student Theses, Dissertations, & Professional Papers

Frank B. Wynn was a leader in the first decades of the 20th Century. In the process of establishing timeless leadership standards for reconstructing his biography, it became apparent that no such standard existed, owing to more than 300 definitions of leadership at the end of the 20th century. The central research question asked what elements of leadership are historically and logically independent of context, and if those elements can be illuminated in a specific example of a leader examined from holistic criteria? The study consisted of an etymology of leadership terms, an exploration of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Politics, and …

Cl 553 United Methodist Polity And Discipline, Randy Jessen

Syllabi

The Book of Discipline of The United Methodist Church 2008 Polity, Practice and the Mission of The United Methodist Church (2006 Edition), by Thomas Frank

Cl 613 Recruiting And Equipping The Laity, Stephen L. Martyn

Syllabi

Job, Rueben P. and Norman Shawchuck. A Guide To Prayer. Nashville, TN. The Upper Room, 1983 (417 Pages). Please Note: this is the BLUE book. Harper, Steve. Devotional Life In The Wesleyan Tradition: A Workbook. Nashville, TN: Upper Room Books, 2001 (159). Henderson, D. Michael. John Wesley’s Class Meeting: A Model for Making Disciples. Nappanee, IN: Francis Asbury Press, 1997 (191 pages). Rath, Tom. Strengths Finder 2.0 .New York, NY: Gallup Press, 2007, (174 pages). Please Note: You must purchase this exact text as a NEW text in order to take the on-line Strength’s Finder Inventory found within. Roxburgh, Alan …