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Developing 21st Century Leaders Through the Library and Learning Resource Center
(2014)
Creativity, collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are skills in demand by 21st century employers to meet the needs of rapidly changing industries. Successful leaders will master these skills and effectively ...
Investigating Emotional Resistance To Organizational Change: A Descriptive Qualitative Research Study Of Local Television Newsroom Leaders
(2017-05-09)
A factor contributing to failed change initiatives in organizations is emotional resistance from change recipients. If overlooked, emotional resistance can impede changes for an organization’s survival (Bateh, Castaneda, ...
Gender Disproportionality in K-12 School Superintendent Positions
(2017-11-06)
Despite an increase in the number of women obtaining senior leadership positions, women continue to be underrepresented in school district superintendencies (Muñoz, Mills, Pankake, & Whaley, 2014; T. Wallace, 2015). In ...
The Attached Leader: The Development of Trust and How it Influences Leadership Styles
(2016-03)
Throughout the last century, much work and research has been done to identify the personality styles and traits of effective leaders (Ainsworth & Bowlby, 1991; Towler, 2005; Lencioni, 2014; Sethuraman & Suresh, 2014; ...
Women in school leadership: The impact of school leadership through sport on middle school girls
(2019-08-20)
Educational leaders are responsible for the academic achievements of all students in a safe, caring, diverse, and inclusive learning environment. Sport and same-gender programming effectively develop self-efficacy, build ...
Student statisfaction and student engagement in a school psychology graduate program: Differences between program formats, primarily campus-based, primarily online
(2020-04)
While total higher education enrollment is declining, online enrollment is increasing (Lee & Martin, 2017). Educational leaders have developed online options to meet student requirements, but online retention rates are ...
Moderators of gender-based barriers in the U.S. Army: How enlisted women increase their own recruitment, promotion, participation, retention, and integration
(2019-07)
In their women’s integration plan, the U.S. Army (2016b) called for studies to identify and “develop strategies to overcome [gender] barriers” (p. 13) women encounter, without an institutional understanding of gender ...
Mentors’ impact on new teacher retention in K-12
(2019-09)
The U.S. Department of Education (2015) reported that new teachers’ rates of retention were higher among those who had a mentor assigned to them during their first year of teaching. Teacher induction and mentor programs, ...
Giving voice to K-12 introverted administrator communication skills: A phenomenological study
(2019-12)
Since the Industrial Revolution, extraverts have been preferred in leadership over introverts. Their outgoing and social nature suggests they are better communicators in comparison to introverts. Job descriptions of K-12 ...
Coupling conservation efforts with water rate structure: Evidence to inform leadership and support policy
(2019-12)
The purpose of this study was to identify data supported water rate structures that would promote sustainable agency revenue along with water conservation policy for long-term benefits to consumers and water agencies of ...