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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Leadership and Change"”.
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The psychology of legitimacy: Implications for organizational leadership and change
… dynamics of legitimacy judgments and support for leaders and their initiatives. Chapter 1 develops a theoretical framework for understanding the content of legitimacy judgments and the process by which those judgments develop and change over time. Chapter 2 explores the role of …
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Teachers, teamwork, and technology: an introspective look at leadership and change
Teacher convictions and doubts about the process of integrating technology into instruction have a major influence on the degree to which the teacher applies technology in the classroom. Teacher paradigms, in addition to federal, state, and local policies, can create barriers that inhibit the …
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Leadership and change : a study of two South African peasant communities
… was carried out between the 8th December, 1962 and the 28th February, 1963 - an unusually short period by modern anthropological standards. The brevity of my intensive field being Xhosa-speaking, I had a previous knowledge of the two villages. As a small boy, I grew up in one of them (Gubenxa) …
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A Study of Technology Implementation in Two School Districts: The Dynamics of Leadership and Change
… case study investigated the role administrative leadership plays in organizational change related to the infusion of technology into district programs and pedagogical practices. School districts have been engaged in a struggle to incorporate new generations of technological advancements in …
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Divine Feminine Leadership Praxis: A Qualitative Analysis of the Craft
In this thesis, I examine divine feminine leadership praxis through the lens of systems thinking, leadership, and change management theory. Using the decolonized methodology of generationally practiced witchcraft ceremonies and moon magic, I sought to build my own divine feminine leadership praxis …
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Culture Change In A Rural High School
… do not match individual expectations. If leadership does not treat sustaining a positive school culture as a priority, then the successful transition to the new demands of education is unlikely. The qualitative research was founded in the conceptual framework about change and culture in …
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Secondary School Science Department Chairs Leading Change
… are content area specialists in their schools and are responsible for providing students with the most appropriate curricula. However, most secondary school department chairs have limited authority to institute change unilaterally (Gmelch, 1993; Hannay & Erb, 1999). To explore how these …
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Context counts : leading educational reform in New Zealand secondary schools
Educational leadership and organisational literature is replete with syntheses of effective leader behaviours, change sequences and reform models, yet few studies explore the nuanced manner in which individual leaders make sense of and respond to the dynamic influences shaping their thinking and …
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Coming home to self: a first person action research inquiry
After 25 years of professional practice in leadership and change management, I came to doctoral inquiry in 2017. I realised early on that I had been living in a taken-for-granted positivist world with neoliberal expectations of utilisation and normative compliance. It became clear that challenges …
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Academic Portability and Parity within the TVET and Higher Education Institutions in Western Cape
… education policy focus was how to reconfigure and transform the education system to create meaningful pathways and supports for school leavers to navigate sustainable incomes and life trajectories. Given the legacies of inequality and historical neglect, an abiding focus was on how better to …
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Perspectives of a Twitter public on disciplinary practices in a moment of classroom conflict
… a viral mediated school disciplinary incident and policies related to school discipline in South Africa. The study found that online articulations reflected the gaps, ambiguities, and clashes within educational policies related to school discipline, and shows how multi-disciplinary approaches …
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Rural,black and female: Educational Possibilities under severe conditions of constraints
… African histories of education, race, rurality, and gender. The study tracks the complex educational journey of a rural born South African female learner as she navigates between two disparate geographical, educational and social spaces. In this study, the data forms used are interview narratives …
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Investigating the Impact of Organizational Resilience and Turnover in U.S. Local Governments: the Mediating Effect of Strategic Human Resources Management Practices
… resilience has emerged into management research and organization studies, with scholars examining how organizations can prepare for the daily challenges that come with an ever changing and complex environment, thrive and capitalize on change, and uncertainty. Against the challenges that come with …
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Exploration of user involvement and collaboration in a co-design project : a case study
… advantage in the field of outdoor clothing and equipment. Health research is steadily developing a substantial evidence base of the effectiveness of public involvement in research, however, in the co-design research field, there is a less developed evidence base concerning user involvement …
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Leaders' Influence on School Reculturing: A Case Study of an International School
Organizational theorists and even practitioners are beginning to use the construct of organizational culture to analyze and characterize the complexities and challenges of organizational life. The construct has been used to metaphorize, frame, interpret, and understand various aspects of …
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Best practices, leadership strategies and a change model for implementing successful online programs at universities
… is a matter of leading organizational change, this research examined the online efforts of institutions successful in online learning (OL). Best practices and leadership strategies for the move to OL were first identified and then a model for OL implementation that encapsulated these …
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Leadership with a heart: an inquiry into leading with intimacy
This dissertation is about an inquiry on leadership and transformation in a consulting organisation in Turkey. The purpose of the inquiry is to explore a fresh perspective on leadership through the lenses of power and love, within the researcher’s context of a local consulting firm in Turkey and …
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Paternalistic Leadership and Job Performance: A Chinese Perspective Using Conservation of Resources Theory Approach
ABSTRACT PURPOSE: In the practice of university leadership, whether the current paternalistic leadership is suitable for the management of universities in the new era is the concern of the researcher. The purpose of this dissertation is to inquire the impact of paternalistic leadership on job …
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Understanding the Decline in Participation in Fraternal Organizations: A Mixed Methods Approach
<p>Once considered the schools of democracy and cornerstones for advancing society, many of the 100,800 fraternal organizations in the U.S. have experienced a decline in participation over the past 60 years and their perceived relevance in contemporary society questioned. To date, existing …
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Leadership and Arts Integration: An Examination of Practices In Select Schools In South Carolina
… design to collect data from teachers and principals in Arts in Basic Curriculum Schools in South Carolina. This initial phase generated numerical data that was used to identify the schools having the greatest success with integration. In the second, qualitative phase, the researcher …