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Showing 1 to 20 of 26 for “"Leadership study"”.
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Career and technical education faculty retention: a leadership study
… for concern. This qualitative action research study sought to identify environmental factors that contributed to the mobility rates. This study also focused on the leadership of the school principal and the components of leadership necessary to retain faculty. Findings revealed two reasons for …
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Alternatives to grade retention in a pre-kindergarten to second grade setting: a leadership study
… ideals into action. In this manner, I shared leadership and offered the teachers an opportunity to feel as though they were part of a community of learners responsible for every student's success. Through this action research project additional educational services that previously did not …
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Implementation of cross-disciplinary projects to improve student engagement: a leadership study in building capacity for collaboration between middle school teachers
… creates positive experiences and outcomes. This study examined the role cross-disciplinary projects play on influencing student engagement practices in the Eberhardt School District in Southern New Jersey. My research purpose was accomplished through action research methods. The study was …
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Framkvæmdastjórar íslenskra sveitarfélaga: Samanburður á bakgrunni, viðhorfum og starfsvenjum faglegra og pólitískra framkvæmdastjóra sveitarfélaganna
… byggir á gögnum úr „The Nordic Municipal Leadership Study.“ Umbætur á íslenska sveitarstjórnarkerfinu síðastliðin 30 ár hafa verið umtalsverðar og ber þar hæst aukin áhersla á fagmennsku og aukið faglegt bolmagns sveitarfélaga til þess að leysa af hendi stærri og flóknari verkefni (Grétar …
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The effects of study abroad on leadership
When participating in a study abroad experience students develop skills such as increasing intercultural competence. These are skills that previous research has proven is vital to the development of globally minded leaders. Oddly, given this, researchers have yet to study how engaging in study …
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A Situational Assessment of Student Leadership: An Evaluation of Alternate Forms Reliability and Convergent Validity
The Situational Assessment of Leadership: Student Assessment (SALSA©) was developed in the spring of 2009 to be used as a measure of student leadership. Study 1 assessed alternate forms reliability of the SALSA using scores from 178 students. The overall scores on SALSA Form A and SALSA Form B …
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When Leaders Use Self-Uncertainty Strategically: Consequences for Intergroup Leadership and Identity Confirmation Dynamics
<p>Framed by the social identity theory of leadership, one question that is beginning to receive attention is how intergroup leaders can lead across distinct subgroups and improve inter-subgroup relations without provoking social identity-related concerns (e.g., subgroup identity distinctiveness …
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Perceptions of Leaders: The Role of Leader Prototypes and Intervention to Improve Judgments of Female Leaders
… and judgments of others with regard to leadership. This dissertation uses a connectionist perspective of leadership to investigate differences in perceptions and judgments of male and female leaders, and provides the first empirical test of Hogue and Lord's (2007) model for gender bias …
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The Effect of Ethical Leadership, Behavioural Integrity, and Moral Disengagement in Predicting Turnover Intentions During Newcomer Socialization
… & Erdogan, 2012). Drawing from the ethical leadership model, and using a sample of 297 first-year apprentices in Alberta’s oil and gas industry, this study sought to examine whether socialization influences the perceptions of organizational ethics and whether this leads to turnover …
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Movement toward improvement: the process and research that made the game
… to teach organizational communication and leadership skills. This thesis will review the research and theory that went into creating the game and the three main stages of its development. It will also describe the first testing period Movement Toward Improvement ©[superscript KAS 2011] …
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Diamond to coal: an educational leadership doctoral program's evolution and devolution
Extant research on educational leadership preparation programs (ELPPs) is cross-organizational and quantitative in nature. This descriptive sequential explanatory mixed-method study provides contextual depth by looking at the evolution (and devolution) of an on-campus doctoral-level ELPP model. …
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Brand Mind Perception and Moral Judgments of Brand Behavior: How Perceived Leadership Influences Consumer Attitudinal Responses to a Brand's Wrongdoing
… as drawing theoretical support from research on leadership, anthropomorphism and mind perception, this dissertation proposes a moderated mediation model of CEO endorser effects on consumer moral judgments. Brand endorsers for decades have been viewed as essentially communicating via three …
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Adult student practitioners: a qualitative study on their personal experiences
The purpose of this study is to describe the changes that working practitioners experience while pursuing a doctoral degree. This qualitative study centered on the experiences of ten students who have successfully completed the doctoral program of Rowan University. Data was collected through …
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Business leadership in the classroom
… that assists business educators in promoting leadership within a classroom. It is designed to better prepare students to assume leadership and fill the "leadership gap" in business. Two classes of 2nd-year community college business students participated in running and managing their own …
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A study investigating the feasibility of a co-curricular leadership program at Rowan University
… of implementing a co-curricular student leadership program at Rowan University. The project included both a content analysis of transcripts from focus group sessions held with faculty members, administrators and student leaders, as well as analyses of existing co-curricular student …
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The relationship between administrators' learning patterns and leadership competencies
<p>The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between selected administrators' learning patterns and attendant leadership competencies. Thirty-nine upper-level administrators at Rowan University completed the Leadership Assessment Instrument and Learning Combination Inventory to …
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Understanding the impact of leadership coursework on students' perceptions of self as leader
<p>This study sought to understand what students learned about themselves as a leader as a result of taking a for-credit leadership seminar. The study used a qualitative case study methodology in order to interpret data collected through participant surveys and interviews. The participants were …
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Managing Role Stress in Service Occupations: Addressing Gaps in Boundary Spanner Research
… enhanced individual role complexity by feedback (Study 1), (b) person-role conflicts by transformational leadership (Study 2), and (c) role ambiguity by problem-focused coping strategies (Study 3). Study 1 introduces the new concept of individual role complexity as mediator between environmental …
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