Author: Carmela ThompsonPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Effects of Perceived Leadership Style on the Job Satisfaction of Mid-level Student Affairs Administrators in Institutions of Higher Education
Author: Carmela ThompsonSituational Leadership
Author: Janis L. CoatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Deans (Education)
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Developing Leadership Skills and Abilities for Student Affairs Administrators
Author: Jacqueline S. HodesPublisher: Charles C Thomas Publisher
ISBN: 0398093083
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Leadership skills and abilities are essential for student affairs administrators and educators. Through a narrative approach, this book addresses current issues in leadership and administration for student affairs from a variety of perspectives. Lessons, tips, and strategies for student affairs professionals at various levels are provided. Letters from new professionals in the field of student affairs are included, offering insights to graduate students on the challenges of leadership that occur when entering the profession. Additionally, these letters can be used in the classroom as case studies. The book is structured into three parts that include letters to graduate students from new professionals, mid-level managers, and senior/retired administrators. Part I focuses on making the transition from graduate student to new professional, navigating a new campus culture and environment, setting and maintaining boundaries, creating a work-life balance, the importance of campus and professional association involvement, and looking beyond traditional student affairs roles to serve students. These letters will be a valuable tool when evolving as a leader in student affairs. Part II explores the supervisory relationship, ethical dilemmas in higher education and leading colleagues, using challenge and support with students and colleagues, and preparing for the next steps for moving up from new professional to mid-manager. These letters contain the knowledge, skill, and insight to train graduate interns and supervisees new to the student affairs field. Part III studies the letters written to mid-level managers from senior/retired student affairs administrators. The importance of building relationships throughout the leadership journey, forming a professional identity, understanding the importance of budgets, the importance of leading with integrity, and the significance of strategic leadership is stressed. Reflection and Action exercises at the end of each chapter will enhance the knowledge, skills, and wisdom for the reader to map out the journey in becoming a competent leader in the field of student affairs. This book will be an excellent student affairs resource for entry-level, mid-level and senior-level professionals, and college administrators.
Dissertation Abstracts International
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Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 628
Book Description
The Perceived Relevance of Professional Leadership Competencies Among Mid-level Managers in Student Affairs at Four-year Institutions of Higher Education
Author: Stephen FleischerPublisher:
ISBN: 9781267703576
Category : Middle managers
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Abstract: Higher education in the United States is facing significant challenges that necessitate effective leadership at all levels and in all corners of the university, including mid-level managers in student affairs. In July 2010, the American College Personnel Association (ACPA) and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) adopted a set of competencies to guide student affairs professionals. This study looked at the relevance of the leadership competencies from the mid-level managers' perspective. Understanding student affairs leadership at the mid-level is pivotal to succeed in the current climate and to strategize for the future. Mid-level managers at 4-year institutions were surveyed for this study. A total of 294 respondents completed the Professional Leadership Competency Questionnaire (PLCQ). The PLCQ was developed by the researcher, and was based on ACPA and NASPA's 42 sets of knowledge, skills and attitudes (KSAs) ofthe leadership competency. The five highest ranked sets of KSAs for the respondents' current positions were understanding campus cultures, fostering contributions to the organization, assess strengths and weaknesses, recognizing interdependence, and be a mentor. The five KSAs with the highest relevancy for their next positions were fostering contributions to the organization, understanding campus cultures, solutions with no precedent, include diverse others, and incorporate diverse stakeholders. Additionally, mid-level managers perceived an increase in relevance of 40 ofthe 42 KSAs for their anticipated next positions. Further findings included higher relevancy of all three levels of complexity among those who anticipated moving into a senior student affairs officer position. This study fills a gap in the literature regarding mid-level managers' perceptions ofthe ACPA and NASPA leadership competencies. Mid-level mangers perceived the majority of leadership competencies as relevant in their current positions. The breadth of leadership competencies already relevant to mid-level managers suggests they may be deployed in additional ways to address the dilemmas currently facing student affairs. The perception of increased relevancy of the leadership competencies for the respondents' anticipated next positions suggests they are preparing to ascend as competent leaders of student affairs.
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 816
Book Description
The Professional Student Affairs Administrator
Author: Roger B. WinstonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134944373
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Styled as a complete update to the 1991 book "Administration and Leadership in Student Affairs", this work addresses issues of importance to student affairs professionals. Grounded in human development, learning, leadership, group dynamics, management theories, and social science research and evaluation methods, this book articulates the means for college student affairs administrators to function in the forefront of student learning and personal development initiatives. The book focuses on the three essential roles played by student affairs administrators: as educators who play a significant role in addressing the academic goals of their institutions, as leaders who help to shape the vision of their institution's student affairs practice and education mission, and as managers who are responsible for co-ordinating programs and services, supervising staff, and overseeing university facilities and budgets.
Leadership in Higher Education
Author: Jim KouzesPublisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN: 1523087013
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
The authors of the classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge bring their expertise to higher education, offering five practices that can make any college or university leader into an exemplary leader. Drawing on the same pioneering research that formed the foundation of their classic bestseller The Leadership Challenge (over 2.7 million copies sold), James Kouzes and Barry Posner offer a set of leadership skills and practices that will make a significant difference in every area of higher education—faculty, administration, library services, career counseling, auxiliary services, campus safety, and more. It's about the behaviors that leaders, regardless of their position, use to transform values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, segments into solidarity, and risks into rewards. Kouzes and Posner tell the leadership story from the inside and move outward, describing it first as a personal journey and then as mobilizing others to want to do things they have never done before. The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership is the operating system for this adventure. Leadership in Higher Education explains the fundamental principles that support these practices and provides case examples of people in higher education who demonstrate each one. A core theme that weaves its way through all the chapters is that, whether it's one to one or one to many, leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. We need leaders who can unite us and ignite us. This book lights the way.
Exploring Leadership Styles and Faculty Satisfaction in Higher Education
Author: Justin BatehPublisher:
ISBN: 9780692757581
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This book is a must read for administration and human resources staff of colleges and universities who may be having difficulty with retaining highly qualified teaching instructors, academic professors, and adjunct faculty staff. The retention of faculty and staff of educational institutions has been of vital concern over the last decade, especially since the economic turmoil of 2008 and the aftermath of the great recession. The increase of online degrees has increased the competitiveness of finding, and keeping, qualified and valuable teaching staff. Retention of valuable teaching instructors ñ including adjunct, part-time, associate, and assistant professors is crucial in the survival and growth of academic institutions, as well as maintenance of accreditation credentialing and standards. This book focuses on a correlational research study, based on a faculty population in an institution of higher learning in Florida, that examined the relationship between perceived academic administrator leadership styles and the satisfaction of faculty members and transformational, transactional, and passive/avoidant leadership styles of academic administrators, with a dependent variable of job satisfaction for full-time faculty members. Based on a 95% significance level, the researcher identified a significant relationship between the three leadership styles and the academic instructor's job satisfaction, thus an inferred correlational relationship to staff retention. Using this model, academic leaders are encouraged to refine their leadership styles on the basis of faculty members' indicated preferences to increase and improve academic instructor's retention, as well as their satisfaction in working for the school. Three key recommendations for action were developed. First, senior academic administrators should identify current transformational leaders in their organizations and perhaps use them as mentors to assist in the training and mentorship of current and future leaders. Second, academic administrators should recognize that leadership traits can be learned, and therefore, provide professional development and training opportunities in the areas of transformational leadership for present and future academic leaders. Finally, those who seek leadership positions in academia should become aware of the attributes of an effective higher education administrator, and work to develop an intrinsic understanding of and cultivate a skill-set of transformational leadership characteristics. Key Search Terms In Book: academic leaders, achievement-oriented leadership, active leadership, affective commitment, autocratic leadership, avoidant leadership, behavioral idealized influence, charismatic leadership, citizenship behaviors, communication styles, contingent reward leadership, developmental leadership, distributive justice, dualistic leadership, effective leadership, empowerment frameworks, exemplary leaders, exploitative innovation, faculty leadership, gender discrimination, hierarchical structure, idealized influence, institutional leadership, job satisfaction, laissez-faire leadership, leadership behaviors, leadership models, leadership theory, management by exception, mentors / protégés, organizational climate / organizational culture, participative leadership, passive/avoidant leadership, professional development, pseudo-transformational leaders, psychological empowerment, realistic leadership, reward and incentive system, scope of influence, shared governance model, structural empowerment, supportive leadership, top-down management style, total quality management (TQM), transactional leadership, transformational leadership
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