Making Sense of Her Journey: Exploring African American Female Executives’ Leadership Experiences within Nonprofit Organizations African American females have a desire to lead and some have even reached the executive leadership table. However, as there remains a significant absence of African...
Invisible and yet Hyper-Visible: The Gendered Experiences of Female Military LeadersThe purpose of this qualitative study was to understand the gendered experiences of active-duty senior enlisted women in the US military. This study was informed by Gendered Organizations Theory, Feminist...
Co-leadership is becoming a more popular and prominent leadership structure across a variety of industries and settings; however, the body of knowledge on this topic is limited. Much of the current research focuses on whether co-leadership is a beneficial or detrimental form of leadership and...
Throughout the nearly 500 year history of Jesuit education, the system of schooling established by the Society of Jesus according to the spirituality and pedagogy of their founder St. Ignatius of Loyola (1491-1556), academic rigor, character formation in faith and justice, and extra-curricular...
Most primate species are socially-cohesive. Group-living primates enjoy the benefits of sociality—such as lower predation risk and better foraging efficiency—but must coordinate movements despite differences in kinship, affiliation, sex, age, and reproductive status. The majority of research on...
As a result of federal legislation (ESSA, 2015) accreditation ratings of elementary schools are based on the performance of third through fifth grade students on the end of year assessments in the content subjects of reading and math. As a result of these requirements schools that fail to meet...
AbstractComplexity Leadership, Generative Emergence, and Innovation in High Performing Nonprofit OrganizationsThis study examined the function of complexity leadership in the generative emergence of new ideas in a high-performance nonprofit organization. The conceptual framework for the study...
The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between college male leaders and their perceptions of masculinity, gender role norms and their leadership style. This qualitative study utilized a brief questionnaire and semi-structured, one on one interviews with 14 former...
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In an age when the word "management" seems to have permeated the Army's language and life. The differences between industrial management leadership and Army...
Abstract of DissertationUnderstanding New Principals’ Transition to Instructional Leadership The purpose of this study was to understand the instructional leadership role development of new principals. The overarching research question that guided this study was: How do new principals transition...
Abstract of Dissertation The emergence of Chief Diversity Officers (CDO) across colleges and universities can be viewed twofold. First, the role can be viewed as an institution's commitment towards building greater diversity and inclusion across the student body, faculty, and administration....
AbstractThis study explored the lived experience of subordinates in interracial supervisor-subordinate dyadic working relationships in nonprofit social welfare organizations. Although contemporary leadership theories explore leaders' traits, characteristics, skills, competencies of, and the...
As technology-mediated learning continues to expand, gain critical favor, and show promise for solving a number of critical issues inherent in educating future generations, leaders of online learning (OL) units within higher education face complex challenges. It is critical that leaders of these...
Abstract of DissertationAfrican-American Female Students and STEM:Principals’ Leadership PerspectiveAs the U.S. becomes more diverse, school leaders, major corporations, and areas of national defense continue to investigate science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education issues....
Employees are critical to the achievement of organizational goals and strategy. This study defined and explored the predictors and consequences of employee goal alignment, whereby employees have an understanding of their own goals and perceive that their goals are aligned to organizational goals....
Cohesion has been consistently acknowledged as an integral component of team success, with ample research linking cohesion to team effectiveness, performance, and efficiency within teams. Given strong linkages between cohesion and performance, organizations would benefit from knowledge regarding...
The purpose of this case study is to examine and describe the sensemaking and sensegiving processes of a religious leader when introducing an organizational change within his organization, an independent church in Singapore. This study identifies and addresses both conceptual and practical...
Researchers have explored various antecedents to teacher efficacy in an effort to shape leadership practice to promote this elusive construct. This study was conducted as a meta-analysis of the extant literature regarding principal leadership and teachers’ sense of self-efficacy.After a...