Download or read book Faculty Perceptions of Organizational Culture in Community Colleges written by Helene Ikumi Sokugawa and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diverse Perspectives written by Annette Letcher and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Differences in Perceptions of Organizational Culture written by David John Gregory Foster and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Colleges as Cultural Texts written by Kathleen M. Shaw and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1999-09-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions whether, and how, community colleges confront the challenges of diversity and provide real opportunities for upward mobility.
Download or read book Faculty and Administrator Perceptions of Community College Organizational Culture Decision making Processes and Organizational Effectiveness written by Zachariah O. Abungah and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faculty Perceptions of Organizational Culture and Collegiality at Protestant Christian Universities in the Pacific Northwest written by Jamie R. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: This study focused on faculty perceptions of organizational culture and collegiality at denominationally affiliated Christian colleges and universities in the Pacific Northwest. It was found that while faculty members perceive tension around their experience of organizational culture, the extent of their relationships as cultivated through formal and informal development opportunities contributes to strong collegiality. Additionally, this study explored how denominational affiliation [is] perceived by faculty. A short study of Acts 15 and how the early Christian community responded to difficult circumstances and different cultural backgrounds was undertaken to more fully understand how Scripture teaches followers of Jesus to live and work in community. //p// Through convenient purposeful sampling, 19 faculty members from 3 different denominationally affiliated institutions in the Pacific Northwest were interviewed using a semi-structured interview. Additionally, the Organizational Culture Assessment Instrument (OCAI) was completed by two of the participating institutions. The participants were representative of the larger faculty bodies at each institution, including faculty rank, length of tenure, and department. //p// The findings from the research indicated that faculty perceptions of organizational culture are dependent upon faculty relationships with administrators, and whether administrators value their voice, both individually and collectively. The study also found that collegiality is an important factor in whether or not faculty members are able to live amidst the competing tensions of their work, including busyness, institutional growth, and institutional change. Additionally, it was found that collegiality seems to be strengthened through participation in formal and informal faculty development programs. //p// This study also set out to explore the perceived impact of denomination on faculty perceptions of organizational culture and collegiality. Participants noted the importance of denominational affiliation for the institution, especially in terms of giving the institution a unique place to stand in the midst of a competitive higher education market. Yet, the study also found that for the participants, the most important aspect of their work is that they daily get to point students to Jesus Christ, a calling many of them described as more important than denominational affiliation, though denominational affiliation might have some determination on how this is done.
Download or read book Faculty Perceptions of Leadership and Culture in the Public Community Colleges in Kansas written by Carol L. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Graduate Students Research about Community Colleges written by Deborah L. Floyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a collection of chapters with different research designs that explore the research, practice, and policies of community colleges. The chapters in this book are the result of the graduate students and their faculty mentor’s scholarly work, and a rigorous special issue’s peer review process. Furthermore, this book offers recommendations on how to mentor graduate students, in the absence of research and mentorship on how to publish for graduate students and practitioner-scholars, as well as recognizing that graduate programs and professional associations are important on the socialization of practitioner-scholars. Each book chapter addresses the implications for practice and future research, policy for community colleges, and recommendation for change indicated by the research results. Five broad research themes, higher education policy, leadership practices and roles, network community, student success, and technology, emerged from the empirical articles and critical reviews. A final chapter shares advice and lessons learned from the 30 authors and mentors. With the exception of Chapter 14, the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Community College Journal of Research and Practice.
Download or read book Faculty Perception of Organizational Culture and Institutional Effectiveness in Florida Colleges written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Case Study of the Perceptions of Faculty Administrators and Staff Regarding the Development of a culture of Evidence at Two Texas Community Colleges written by Gregory F. Peterson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In order to meet the educational and economic demands of the United States in the future, institutions of higher education must increase the number of students who persist to the completion of a certificate or degree program, especially low-income students and students of color (Carnivale and Desrochers, 2004). To increase the persistence and completion rates of these students at community colleges, national initiatives, such as the Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count initiative, have emphasized the importance of creating institutional environments in which planning and improvement efforts are data-driven (Achieving the Dream, 2005). This study explored the perceptions of faculty members, administrators, and staff directly involved in establishing this data-driven environment, also known as a "culture of evidence," and the extent to which those perceptions had disseminated through the larger college community. Through the use of a case study and focus groups using Interactive Qualitative Analysis (IQA) methods, the development of a "culture of evidence" at two Texas community colleges was examined as perceived by college constituents involved in its creation and by a group of college constituents indirectly influenced by their efforts. The emerging themes are discussed in their relation to promoting and maintaining a data-driven culture in the future.
Download or read book Competing on Culture written by Randall VanWagoner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community colleges are under intense pressure to change in response to shifts in an increasingly complex environment. Stakeholders are placing simultaneously contradictory demands on colleges for more and better service, increased accountability, and more efficient use of resources in order to get the most from colleges in tough economic times. These demands have contributed to cultural fragmentation in community colleges as staff are pulled in competing directions by events beyond their control. The upshot is a circumstance in which leaders are finding that culture is perhaps the most powerful element affecting organizational performance and change. The old saw “culture eats strategy for breakfast’ epitomizes the importance of culture as a means for enhancing the long-term viability of an organization. This book provides fresh analysis of organizational culture in the community college context with a critical examination of the relationship between organizational culture and change. Readers will benefit from frank advice with insights to drive change by transforming and leveraging culture to shape the future of community colleges.
Download or read book ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CULTURAL AND LEADERSHIP COMPLEXITY written by Maria Pharr and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Higher education institutions are increasingly pressured to identify performance measures related to organizational effectiveness. Research has shown that theorists and practitioners have varying views on which criteria most appropriately measure effectiveness in higher education institutions, which has led to the development of a robust model that amalgamates concepts from the major theoretical models into a single framework. This model, known as the Competing Values Framework, accounts for the presence of the paradoxical attributes associated with the complex nature of higher education institutions. This study uses the Competing Values Framework to measure the relationships between measures of effectiveness and cultural and leadership complexity based on the perceptions of faculty and administrators in the North Carolina Community College System. Community colleges represent the largest sector in American higher education, and the North Carolina Community College System is one of the largest and most diverse systems of community colleges in the nation; therefore, it was chosen as a representative sample for this study. The results of the linear regression analyses revealed that significant relationships exist between dimensions of effectiveness and cultural and leadership complexity, with minimal variance between faculty and administrator perceptions. Specifically, effectiveness dimensions related to student satisfaction and development as well as dimensions related to institutional practices and functioning were perceived to be more effective with increasing cultural and leadership complexity. In contrast, effectiveness dimensions related to individual employee satisfaction and development were perceived to be more effective with decreasing cultural and leadership complexity. These results can inform higher education practitioners and theorists on programs and practices that address these findings.
Download or read book Cultural Leadership written by George A. Baker and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Community College Press publication.
Download or read book Community Colleges and Their Students written by J. Levin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book employs a socio-cultural approach to study the organizational dynamics and experiences of self-formation that shape community college life. The authors use case studies to analyze both the symbolic dimension and practices that enable the production of educational experiences in seven community colleges across the U.S. Levin and Montero-Hernandez explain the construction of organizational identity and student development as a result of the connection between institutional forces and individual agency. This work emphasizes the forms and conditions of interaction among college personnel, students, and external groups that were enacted to respond to the demands and opportunities in both participants local and larger contexts. The authors acknowledge both the collective and individual efforts of community college personnel to create caring community colleges that support nontraditional students.
Download or read book Educational Change Process of a Two year College written by Diane Louise Vertin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Mixed Method Study of Organizational Culture Dimensions of Community College Faculty Library Use and Perceptions written by Deborah J. Keeler and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Organizational Culture and Leadership in Community Colleges written by Christine J. Sobek and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
