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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Leadership research"”.
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A Review of Transformational Leadership Research: A Meta-analytic Approach
This research is a meta-analytic review of the effects of transformational school leadership (TSL)-- a systematic, comprehensive synthesis of the quantitative research on transformational school leadership. The review method used in this research is standard meta-analysis supplemented by narrative …
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Judged by the Bottom-line But Expected to Lead Ethically: A Leader's Catch 22
The goal of the presented research is to explain the importance of integrating the literatures on leader bottom-line mentality (BLM) and behavioral ethics and to demonstrate that leader BLM can adversely impact followers' perceptions of ethical leadership. By doing so, several contributions can be …
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Personality and leader emergence in groups
Trait-based approaches to leadership have been around for a long time. Starting out as one of the original theories of leadership, research in the area of trait- based perspectives began to slow and give way to other, different domains of predicting leadership in the 1950s. Only recently has there …
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Decision-making in task-oriented and interaction-oriented groups
Within an organisation, leadership involves accomplishing goals by working with and through people. This comprises the concepts of concern for the task and concern for relationships, and leadership research has been concerned with predicting the way in which these concepts interact, whether they …
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Exploring the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in the UK through gender and leadership development lenses
• Background This paper profiles research into the under-representation of women at Vice Chancellor level in UK Higher Education. Less than 15% of Vice Chancellors are women, whereas women make up 51% of the general population, 50% of early career academics and 60% of higher education students. The …
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Leader consideration reconsidered: the l factor in leader behavior
In the current dissertation, I propose that leadership research has progressed by repeatedly reinventing the concept of leader consideration. First, I provide a historical review of the origins of leader consideration. Then, I conduct empirical demonstrations (using both meta-analytic and primary …
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Leadership development and its effects on organizational performance
… current environment demands a better quality of leadership in organizations. In order to improve leadership capabilities, companies can create leadership development programs. However, not all companies embrace leadership development programs. Those who do usually have several types of programs …
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Women as Party Leaders: Are the Barriers Partisan?
… very little has been done on women in party leadership. Research suggests that there are fewer women in elected office because of a lack of supply, or qualified and willing women, or a lack of demand, an electorate willing to vote for a woman. This study seeks to understand the levels of …
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The role of mentoring in the development of African American nurse leaders
… of African American nurses who have achieved leadership positions in baccalaureate and graduate nursing programs. This study also explored the similar and dissimilar mentoring experiences in same-race versus cross-race mentoring relationships. The theoretical framework for this study is …
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Teacher and student perceptions of online instructional methodology in higher education: an explanatory mixed-method study
… involved in online teaching and learning. Three research questions addressing faculty perceptions about their online teaching at SLU, effective teaching methods or strategies employed by online faculty at SLU, and the student perceptions about online teaching at SLU were addressed. There were two …
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Service learning: a study of administrators' goals at a Research I university
… goals of a service learning program at a Research I university. This research was aimed at discovering administrators' goals and determining whether or not these goals were achieved, as perceived by students, administrators, community service agency directors, and faculty members. A …
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A day in the PARC: an interactive qualitative analysis of school climate and teacher effectiveness through professional action research collaboratives
… study examines the effects Professional Action Research Collaboratives (PARCs) have on several variables including teacher effectiveness, school effectiveness, and school climate. Mixed methods including Interactive Qualitative Analysis and non-parametric Mann Whitney U statistics were used to …
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Hope for today and tomorrow: identity construction power, and persistence of community college women who are first in their families to attend college
… analyzed in regard to its uses and limits. The researcher found the label as an identifier becomes problematic through social discourse. These results confirm London’s (1996) finding that students themselves do not necessarily find anything unique about their situations or anything in common …
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Leadership for scholarly excellence: a qualitative examination of department chair facilitation methods to promote research productivity in pre-tenure biological sciences faculty
… department chairs can employ to enhance the research productivity of their pre-tenure faculty and examines if leadership at the department chair level matters. Using a qualitative approach to examine six highly successful life science departments and their leaders as well as focus group …
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Self-efficacy, motivation, and outcome expectation correlates of college students' intention certainty
… information considered useful for framing future research on retention from a different perspective that focuses on characteristics of individuals who stay, rather than those who leave higher education with the consideration of psychological constructs. Further, this research expanded the Tinto …
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School effectiveness research in China
… mixed model design was utilized to test the research hypotheses and answer the research questions. Both probability and purposive sampling strategies were employed in this study. The MANOVA analyses from the teacher, student, and parent questionnaires revealed a consistent result: there were …
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The relationship between perceived leader behavior and alcohol consumption among university students who are members of social fraternities
… alcohol consumption of students enrolled in a research extensive university in the southern portion of the United States who were members of a social fraternity. The two main goals of this study were: 1) to determine if a relationship existed between the level of alcohol consumption and the …
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Designing online instruction for postsecondary students with learning disabilities
… students with varying learning disabilities. The research provides a holistic picture of the students in their actual learning environment. Two college students diagnosed as learning disabled were studied with three non-disabled classmates in an online college learning environment. The purpose was …
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Going with the flow?: the medical school pipeline and advising premedical African American students on predominantly white campuses
… enrollment in medical school, and existing research on diverse student experiences have indicated a critical need for effective academic advising for premedical African American students attending predominantly white undergraduate institutions. Using mixed methods, this study investigated …
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Using partial least squares approach to predict factors that contribute to the impact of e-folios on pre-service teachers' learning
… technology skills. To analyze survey data, the researcher used the Partial Least Squares (PLS) approach to Structural Equation Modeling (SEM), which is a method for estimating the likelihood of the success of PASS-PORT given information about other factors that influence the use of PASS-PORT. …
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