Download or read book Perceptions of Transformational Leadership Transactional Leadership and the Organizational Culture of a Community College Based on Demographic Factors written by Cynthia Lilley Denson Hargis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shared Vision written by John E. Roueche and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a study of 256 exemplary community college presidents, this book examines the attributes of outstanding leaders and their ability to orchestrate organizational change. Chapter 1 provides the background for the study, emphasizes the importance of leadership, and identifies attributes common to transformational leaders; that is, leaders who work with their followers so that each raises the other to higher levels of motivation and morality. Chapter 2 summarizes leadership theory and offers a discussion of transformational leadership and its place in a rapidly changing society. After chapter 3 reviews the study methodology, chapters 4 and 5 present findings on the demographic and leadership characteristics of the presidents selected for in-depth study. Chapters 6 through 10 discuss key elements of transformational leadership, including shared vision, teamwork and collaborative decision making, institutional climate and the relationship between the institution and the individuals within it, motivation as a means of achieving followers' acceptance of the shared vision, and personal values, integrity, and commitment to learning. Chapter 11 examines women in community college leadership roles. Finally, chapter 12 presents a summary of the research, a discussion of the problems faced by minority leaders, and a review of study implications. The survey instruments and an eighty-five-item bibliography are appended.
Download or read book Studying Demographics Student Equity and Organizational Culture of a California Community College written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transformational Leadership and Community College Effectiveness written by David Todd Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and emerging technologies have had a profound impact on the U.S. economy, making a highly skilled workforce a national priority. The community college, with its great number, openness to nontraditional students, and key role in workforce development, is poised to become a more prominent contributor to America's success in the new economy. However, new technologies, reduced budgets, and higher levels of accountability are adding to the challenges facing community colleges. These new challenges have brought about the need for a different kind of educational leader, one who can manage the needs of a diverse group of stakeholders, empower others to accept responsibility, and get results without being autocratic. Such leaders are known as transformational leaders. In contrast, transactional leaders focus on the efficient running of the system within the context of existing organizational constraints. Transformational leaders are compared with transactional leaders in this investigation. The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between transformational leadership factors, transactional leadership factors, and measures of community college performance. Forty-six North American community colleges participated in the study. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used for this investigation. Information on the leadership behaviors of college presidents was collected using the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Information on college effectiveness was collected using the Institutional Performance Survey. Both leadership and effectiveness data were based on faculty perceptions at the respective colleges. The relationship between presidential leadership and college effectiveness was evaluated using multiple regression analysis. A subset of presidents in the study was interviewed to achieve a better understanding of the social complexities associated with community college leadership. Transformational leadership was shown to be a better predictor of organizational effectiveness than transactional leadership for this sample. Based on the interviews, transformational presidents rely more on strong personal convictions, open communication, and trust to establish and articulate their vision than do their transactional counterparts. Leadership behaviors of the president predict only a portion of the overall performance of a college. Many other factors contribute to college performance, including the culture of the college and the conditions under which a leader assumes the presidency.
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 Perceptions of Leadership Within the Context of Organizational Culture written by Gloria Shepard McFadden and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership Theory and the Community College written by Carlos Nevarez and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents leaders and aspiring leaders in community colleges with a theoretical and practical framework for analyzing their leadership styles, and determining the dimensions of leadership they need to improve in order to strengthen their capacity to resolve complex issues and effectively guide their institutions. It does so through presenting theories about leadership that are congruent with the notions of equity, access, diversity, ethics, critical inquiry, transformational change, and social justice that drive the missions of community colleges, and at the same time provides the reader with the strategic skills to prepare for and navigate the profound changes ahead.Readers will gain an understanding of how to use theory as a tool to guide their practice, better understand the intricacies of the issues confronting them, the power dynamics and organizational context in which they operate, predict potential outcomes, and develop processes to achieve desired outcomes. Utilizing theory in conjunction with case study analysis provides community college leaders with the tools needed to comprehensively interrogate and inform decision-making processes. The authors provide a number of rich and realistically complex case studies, all of which are situated in a community college environment, to which readers can apply the various theories and perspectives, develop their view about the principles and actions most likely to lead to satisfactory outcomes, and hone the approaches to leadership that are authentic to them, and effective. The authors aim to help readers develop the multi-faceted approach to leadership that is essential to running complex organizations. They aim to promote development of the “whole” leader through a three-fold framework of theory, practice, and introspection in context of institutional change. In doing so, leaders will be better equipped to lead community colleges in challenging times.The authors tie AACC’s competencies to the leadership theories they cover, as well as to the analysis of the case studies, and leadership inventories, as an essential framework for developing the skill sets to enact the community college mission.The book is suitable for personal reading and reflection, institutional leadership retreats and training, and as a text for higher education courses.
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 Transformational Change in Community Colleges written by Christine Johnson McPhail and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-07-03 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the foreword by Walter G. Bumphus, President & CEO of AACC: “Becoming an Equity-Centered Higher Education Institution is a significant contribution to the on-going struggle to find practical approaches to implementing an equity agenda in higher education.” The authors had three main goals for this text: Relevance: This book is the result of many years of teaching, leading, researching, and coaching individuals and institutions about equity inside higher education. The authors place a clear emphasis on awareness and teaching skills first, but also ensure that those skills are based on practical application in the field. Practical Application: To describe and explain equity and transformational change concepts, this book provides step-by-step implementation approaches that can be used to integrate equity-centered principles into practices and policies to implement or improve equity work into the organizational culture. A Purposeful Approach: The authors defined the act of becoming an equity-centered institution in terms of a transformational change approach using Kotter’s Eight-Stage Process. Kotter’s Model and AACC’s Leadership Competencies for Community College Leaders are introduced in Chapter 1 and integrated throughout the book. This integrated framework allows practitioners to place the intersectionality of equity, transformational change, and requisite leadership competencies into the larger context of higher education. While using Kotter’s 8-Step Change Model, the authors emphasize that operations and situations inside higher educational institutions are not linear as implied in Kotter’s model. They show how the stages of change may occur at different times and different situations at different institutions, and demonstrate what leadership competencies are recommended for each stage in the change process.
Download or read book Unrelenting Change Innovation and Risk written by Daniel J. Phelan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguably, the nation’s community colleges have experienced more change in the last several years than they have over the prior 115 years of their existence. Rapid changes in technology, external pressures for accountability and student completion, aggressive competition from other higher education institutions (i.e., public, for-profit, and private), changes in enrollment demographics, as well as new economic, market, and operational models stand to completely disrupt this relatively young enterprise. Unrelenting Change provides useful, practical examples for community college leaders as they seek to thoughtfully and strategically align their organization for the new dynamic in higher education. Furthermore, Unrelenting Change offers insights into the change process, including institutional assessment and readiness, consideration of cultural implications, strategic intentions toward innovation, as well as risk, failure, and success. Rather than perceiving change and disruptive innovation as merely happenstance, or luck, the author provides discernment into the topic so as to give community college leaders solid, guidance, if not improved odds, in undertaking this important, competitive edge for the future of their intuitions, and by extension, their students.
Download or read book An Analysis of Transformational Leadership Attributes and Leadership Development in Two Year Colleges written by Patricia B. Frohrib and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 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:
Download or read book Up and Running written by Susan Tobia and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-04-25 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Community colleges are facing a leadership crisis spurred by the retirements of baby boomers from leadership positions at all levels. There is a critical need to prepare leaders to deal with 21st century challenges, such as dramatically improving student outcomes, tackling funding issues, and addressing college affordability. There is also growing recognition that having internal candidates prepared to take on leadership roles may lead to a smoother leadership transition. Up and Running: Starting and Growing a Leadership Program at a Community College by Susan J. Tobia and Judith L. Gay is a roadmap for creating a leadership program to meet the needs of colleges as well as the professional interests of employees. Drs. Tobia and Gay share the basics of starting a program including the application and selection processes, budget, and program format, as well as areas including team building, thinking styles, decision making, conflict resolution, and diversity/inclusion. An extensive set of templates, examples, and key suggestions make it easy to customize a program to meet the needs of any institution.
Download or read book Shared Vision written by John E. Roueche and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership for Creating a Learning College written by Carole Suzanne Goldsmith and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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