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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"informal leadership"”.
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The informal leader's role on construction sites: A comparative analysis of formal and informal leadership structures within the construction industry
… of which stem from inadequate understandings of leadership characteristics and jobsite relationships. The focus of this study is to determine who construction personnel naturally seek advice from on a construction site when confronted with a situation that requires it. Additionally, this study …
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The Informal Leader's Role on Construction Sites: A comparative analysis of formal and informal leadership structures within the construction industry
… of which stem from inadequate understandings of leadership characteristics and jobsite relationships. The focus of this study is to determine who construction personnel naturally seek advice from on a construction site when confronted with a situation that requires it. Additionally, this study …
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The Career Paths of African American Male Senior Administrators in Student Affairs at Predominantly White Institutions: Formal and Informal Leadership Experiences
… qualitative study examines the career paths and leadership experiences of nineteen African American male senior administrators in student affairs at four-year predominantly White institutions across the United States. The rationale for this study emerges from the researcher's frustration with the …
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"Hanging On With Both Hands": Teacher Leaders and Small School Reform
… smaller schools have a higher demand for teacher leadership, yet little is known about the characteristics and experiences of those teachers who choose to take informal leadership roles. This study interviewed 23 participants from four schools, two districts, and an outside support agency in order …
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Balancing Act: Adams Metro High School's Efforts to Retain Its Identity
… examines how Adams' principal used formal and informal leadership structures to define the steps necessary for preserving its identity. Adams Metro High School is a magnet high school that hosts comprehensive Vocational/Technical and Performing Arts programs. Changes in high school graduation …
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Distributed Leadership in Schools: Conditions for Success
<p>Teacher leadership has always been a necessary part of school dynamics. Through committees, union/administrative negotiations, formal and informal leadership roles, teachers play an important role in the growth and change of an educational institution. The purpose of this study is to examine …
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Transformational leadership approach for encouraging historically marginalized communities to access admission to Naturopathic Medicine
… Moreover, the OIP presents a plan using informal leadership with a transformational approach to motivate change including the practices of exemplary leadership. Also, the plan is outlined and communicated using the CPM, which includes a process for the practice of transformational …
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The Effects of Multiple Leader Emergence on Team Performance
… related to social intelligence would predict informal leadership emergence. Furthermore, it was predicted that multiple leaders within a team would positively influence that team's subsequent level of performance, through the mediating influence of team mental model similarity and team mental …
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Championing Pedagogical Innovators: Supporting and Empowering Informal Leaders in Higher Education Teaching & Learning Spaces
… (DiP) examines the underrecognized role of informal pedagogical leaders—particularly contract, pretenure, and teaching-stream faculty—at a large Canadian research-intensive university (pseudonym: Scholar University). Although these educators are central to undergraduate teaching and student …
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Building Teacher Leadership Capacity Through School-Level Supports and Professional Development: Teachers' and Principals' Perspectives
… resource if principals know how to build leadership capacity in teachers and practice distributive leadership. Understanding principals' and teachers' perceptions of their needs and how to best meet these needs can aid principals in building, and sustaining teacher leadership capacity. …
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Improving implementation of the World Health Organization surgical safety checklist in high-income contexts
… and rationale for the SSC, and use of a shared leadership model for performing checklist processes as facilitators to successful implementation. However, time pressures in the operating room, reported disconnects between SSC patient safety goals and organizational priorities, and lack of local …
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The impacts of Delphi communication structure on small and medium sized asynchronous virtual teams
… in generating more ideas. On the contrary, informal leadership by group coordinators seems to have played a more important role in producing better reports. In terms of per person ideas, small-sized groups were more productive, even though medium-sized groups produced more total ideas than …
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Teacher Research and Leadership the Write Way: The Appalachian Writing Projects Impact in Rural Virginia.
… has affected rural teachers in educational leadership positions and the resulting impact on educational experiences for students.</p><p>The participants in this study represent a unique population, composed of certified teachers in extreme southwest Virginia who have completed the …
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The Role of Leadership for Community Building and Community Garden Programs
… As previous research has shown, effective leadership is a prerequisite to community building in garden programs. However, relatively little research to date has examined the types of leadership and leadership practices that exist and work in community garden settings, and even less has …
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This Woman's Work: The Sociopolitical Activism of Bebe Moore Campbell
… By elucidating Campbell's formal and informal leadership roles within two social movement organizations and her deliberate use of writing as an activist tool, I conclude that in both activist periods Campbell's effective use of resources, personal charisma, and mobilizing strategies …
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The Predictive Roles of the Personal Variables and the Leader Attributes and Behaviors of Department Chairpersons Regarding the Outcomes of Leadership as Perceived by Department Members in Selected Jamaican Universities
… institutional success is integrally linked to leadership, an intentional approach to leader identification should be established in an effort to consistently yield the desired outcomes. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to identify the predictive roles of the four personal variables …