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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Leadership ability"”.
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ENHANCING LEADERSHIP ABILITY IN FIRST-TIME FRESHMEN THROUGH MENTORSHIP: A GROUNDED THEORY APPROACH
… Fortune 500 CEOs. Considering this disparity in leadership, it brings to question if women are generally taking on leadership throughout their lives. The purpose of this study was to examine how mentorship affects first-time female freshmen’s willingness to take on leadership opportunities.</p> …
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Leadership and Self-Confidence: A Case Study Investigation of the Relationship of Prior Experiences to Self-Confidence, Leadership, and Student Teaching Activities (Music)
… the relationship of prior work with youth and leadership-oriented experiences to the development of self-confidence, leadership ability, and success in music student teaching. Using the case study technique, five pertinent relationships were explored: (1) the relationship of previous work with …
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Adaptive Self-regulation And Organizational Politics: Investigating The Effects In The Accounting Profession
… traits and their perceptions of a superior's leadership ability and performance. An accountant who has a higher degree of confidence in his or her superior's abilities is more likely to be committed to a given project, resulting in a better project outcome. This benefits the client and …
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Acquisition performance: The effect of the extent and speed of integration, and the contribution of the acquired units' top management
… to have greater knowledge, relationships, leadership ability and managerial ability than those in units with low preacquisition performance. In units with high preacquisition performance the retained top managers' relationships, leadership ability and managerial ability were perceived to …
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Exploring design based wilderness education : a pedagogy to develop design thinking, an engineering science worldview, and leadership capacity
… thinking, an engineering science worldview, and leadership ability. This project bridges the gap between the wilderness education and engineering education literature as this is a novel approach to engineering education. In bridging the two literatures, we find that the outcomes of wilderness …
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The effects of characteristic prototypicality and level of previous experience on the perceptions of political leaders
Studies of leadership have examined the independent effects of characteristic prototypicality and level of previous experience on the perceptions of a person's leadership ability. The present study examines the joint influence of characteristic prototypicality and previous experience on the …
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Dimensional Assessment of Empowerment in Organizations
… Eight dimensions (culture, trust, accountability, leadership, ability, commitment, responsibility, and communication) were put forth as the most appropriate to measure empowerment. Subject matter experts with knowledge and experience in the area of organizational empowerment reviewed the …
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Antecedent Employee Requirements For Successful Change: A Phenomenological Study Within a Regional Healthcare Authority
… Change. These are influential factors related to leadership ability to manage change and individual employee needs. These findings are then used to develop recommendations that could enhance the potential success of organizational change within the healthcare system through an increased ability to …
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The Validation of a Situational Judgment Test to Measure Leadership Behavior
… as an alternate form of assessment for a leadership development program. The first study examined the content validity of the SJT by performing retranslation on item stems and calibration of the item responses. The second study examined alternate forms reliability between the two forms of …
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James Earl Rudder: A Lesson in Leadership
… primarily because of his character and leadership style. Much of the study was drawn from primary sources. Secondary sources were also consulted. This thesis opens with a brief Introduction, which discusses the need for this work. Chapter 1 discusses Rudder's life prior to WW II, …
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Does Resume Presentation Medium and Reference Group Affect Perceptions about a Job Applicant?
… technical skills, interpersonal skills, leadership ability, motivation, resourcefulness, and overall qualifications). A MANOVA, with resume medium and reference group as independent variables and the seven attributes as the dependent variables, was conducted. The results showed a …
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Leadership, Ascendancy, and Gender
… key competitive issue, the topic of women and leadership is gaining ever-increasing emphasis and momentum in American corporations. Although leadership skills have been advocated as a key human capital/person-centered variable leading to managerial ascendancy for women, the empirical research …
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An Investigation of Strong Religious Cultures in Selected Catholic Secondary Schools
… for the spiritual development of faculty. The leadership ability and charisma of the principal influence the strength of the culture more than does the clerical or religious status of the principal. Boys' schools emphasize peer bonding; girls' schools stress the role of women in the world and …
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Variation in the Willingness of Superintendents to Recommend Hiring Alternatively Licensed Principals
… and their perceptions of the instructional leadership ability of alternatively licensed principals. Other significant predictors were superintendents’ past experiences hiring alternatively licensed principals, perceptions of the community acceptance of alternatively licensed principals, …
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A comparison of leadership styles of successful and unsuccessful collegiate women basketball coaches
… of this study was to identify and to compare leadership styles of successful and unsuccessful collegiate women basketball coaches. Subjects for the study consisted of 1981-1982 collegiate women basketball coaches from Region 2 and Region 3 of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for …
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An examination of leadership styles among virtual school administrators
… the researcher examined self-perceived school leadership styles of school administrators within the virtual school setting. Through this study, the researcher identified virtual school leaders and the leadership styles associated with their work. Participants in this study were employed at K12, …
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A Study of the Relationship Between Leadership and Intelligence Among Selected Groups of High School Students.
The history of civilization is in large part the biography of great people. So universal and enduring is the respect for eminence and greatness among men and women that personal qualities are often overemphasized. Outstanding achievements and contributions result from altogether too few of those …
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The Relationship among Principal Instructional Leadership, Collective Teacher Efficacy, Student Academic Achievement, and Socioeconomic Status in Appalachia Eastern Kentucky High Schools
… studies have shown that principal instructional leadership can affect student academic achievement as much as 15% (Hallinger & Murphy, 1982; Hallinger & Heck, 1996; Leithwood & Beatty, 2009). Research studies on collective teacher efficacy have shown that teacher efficacy can significantly affect …
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The Process of Career Decision-Making in Women: The Decision to Obtain a Nontraditional Occupation
… are cumulatively disadvantaged as regards their ability to make a completely free choice regarding a career. During childhood they received more messages that might have led them to assume that motherhood must take priority over career plans; they experienced fewer nontraditional hobbies and less …
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