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Showing 1 to 20 of 852 for “"Leadership studies"”.
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Discursive Leadership: Exploring the "Black Box" Challenge in Transcultural Leadership Studies
… teamwork, and their models of enacting shared leadership and communication in a multicultural context. Since 2006, hundreds of millions in federal grant funding has been invested in university-based language and culture programs focused on training government personnel and heritage populations …
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Same Kentucky Chicken, Different Taste: Cross-cultural Leadership Studies at KFC in Beijing
… designed to explore a three dimensional Chinese leadership behavior model - Initiation, Consideration, and Guanxi. The Initiation-Consideration model has dominated leadership behavior research in Western literature (e.g., Yukl 1994), whereas this study recognizes that Guanxi behavior is an …
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Romanticizing Leadership: A Historical and Cultural Critique
… are influencing, theories and practices of leadership. This research set out to find out whether leadership studies was benefitting from these neo-romantic influences, through the use of historical and cultural criticism. The historical roots of romanticism were identified for each theme and …
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Exploration of leader inclusiveness in the context of a post-conflict political transition
The Leadership journal is an international peer-reviewed journal that aims to enhance knowledge on leadership studies. The article titled “Exploration of leader inclusiveness in the context of a post-conflict political transition” is a study of inclusive leadership in a new context and hence falls …
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Thinking with Heidegger : an ethnography of the place of leadership
This thesis raises the issue of place within leadership studies. It argues that critical approaches to leadership have paid insufficient attention to the spatial turn in the humanities, overlooking an important angle of critique. It highlights the inevitability of spatial assumption in theorising …
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Exploring Responsive and Supportive Cancer Care for Racialized Adolescents and Young Adults
… Dr. Cheryl A. Heykoop, Supervisor (School of Leadership Studies, Royal Roads University) Tiffany T. Hill, Committee Member (School of Leadership Studies, Royal Roads University) This thesis focuses on exploring responsive and supportive cancer care for racialized adolescents and young adults …
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Leadership and Adult Development: A Study of Higher Education Academic Administrators
Leadership studies have been subject to increasing criticism. At the same time, many groups and institutions are claiming that leaders are needed in today's world, more than ever before. More specifically, higher education institutions and their critics are attempting to identify the leaders and …
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Leadership for Social Change: Learning from Latina/Chicana Activist Educators
An examination of the literature in the field of Leadership Studies exposes a void in understanding activism as leadership among Latinas/Chicanas. The contemporary theories of scholars including James MacGregor Burns (1978) and Joseph C. Rost (1993) suggest there may be shared qualities between …
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Gender Influences in the Graduate Classroom: An Investigation of Female and Male Student Perceptions
… Study findings contradict each other, few studies explore gender bias in the graduate classroom, and fewer yet compare the perceptions of women and men concerning gender influences in the graduate classroom. This dissertation investigates perceptions of the influence of gender in the …
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Leadership as Rhetorical Action: The Power of the Powerless in Search of Its "People"
Leadership studies gravitate toward a leader-centric, behavioral approach. This thesis argues that shifting to a rhetorical perspective of leadership provides a more inclusive look at leadership as a process involving leader, follower, message, and context. When these components align a fuller …
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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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Preparing Global Leaders: A Theoretical Model for Understanding the Development of Intercultural Competency
… particularly those who are enrolled in a leadership studies program claiming to prepare global leaders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the experiences of 14 graduate students who participated in a short-term study abroad program at two different universities and to assess ICC …
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Leadership Style and Tenure of Youth Ministers: A Mixed Methods Study
ABSTRACT LEADERSHIP STYLE AND TENURE OF YOUTH MINISTERS: A MIXED METHODS STUDY John Ellis Steen, Ph.D. The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2015 Chair: Dr. Brian C. Richardson This research study is an examination of the relationship between leadership styles and the longevity of youth …
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Japanese translation and psychometric evaluation of the Revised Leadership Scale for Sport
Despite a number of leadership definitions based on a various perspectives in mainstream psychology, the most popular definition of leadership used in sport leadership studies is, "the behavioural process of influencing individuals and groups toward set goals" (Barrow, 1977, p. 232). The …
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Leadership Style And Diversionary Theory Of Foreign Policy: The Use Of Diversionary Strategies By Middle Eastern Leaders During And In The Immediate Aftermath Of The Gulf War
… it into the current literature on foreign policy leadership studies. The dissertation focuses on Middle Eastern leaders who used diversionary strategies during the First Gulf War in 1991 and in its immediate aftermath. Some of the foreign policies of Hafiz Assad of Syria, King Hussein of Jordan, …
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A Phenomenological Study on Collaborative Leadership from Assistant Principals' Perspective in High Schools
… study was conducted to explore the collaborative leadership experiences of assistant principals in large public high schools. Five themes emerged to help further the understanding of collaborative processes that support teachers in preparing students for 21st century skills. Within the context of …
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Supporting liberatory literate praxis across disciplines and institutions
… University of Colorado Boulder’s INVST Community Leadership Studies Program and the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign’s Social Justice Educators Paraprofessionals Program. As each of these programs aims to empower students to cocreate a more just world, they are ideal for studying …
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Hybrid leadership: a study of the leadership (roles and characteristics) of nine Chinese university presidents with U.S. experiences
… of cultures call for leaders with compatible leadership abilities. However our existing leadership frameworks fail to answer the call. The field of leadership studies remains Eurocentric and dichotomized. This research is an exploration of a new leadership framework which responds to this …
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The Existential Phenomenology of Hazel E. Barnes: Toward a Theory of Existential Leadership
… of a `communicative turn' in business ethics and leadership studies to be responsive to the demands of the historical moment.</p>
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Defining Leadership: Understanding Desired Traits of Leaders
… generations. In recent history, a huge growth in leadership studies has produced a wealth of information on this topic, but because of the multitude of publications, there are now many competing schools of thought about what qualities make a great leader. This paper seeks to understand the …
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