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Perrakis, Athena I.; Galloway, Fred J.; Hayes, Kacy K.; Robinson-Galdo, Karen – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2011
Situated in the broader context of academic administration and senior executive university leadership, this study examined variables correlated with self-reported satisfaction and performance among community college and four-year university presidents in four densely populated north American states. The results of our analysis suggest that…
Descriptors: College Presidents, Community Colleges, Universities, College Administration
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Thompson, Matthew; Cooper, Robyn; Ebbers, Larry – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2012
The purpose of this case study was to understand the experiences of two community college interim presidents, their characteristics, and how they led institutions following an abrupt presidential departure. There were two fundamental questions framing this study: 1. How do two interim community college presidents lead community colleges during a…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Administrator Characteristics, College Presidents, Educational Change
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Carman, Joanne G.; Fredericks, Kimberly A. – American Journal of Evaluation, 2010
In this article, we explore the evaluation capacity of today's nonprofit organizations. We report the findings of a cluster analysis that suggest that when it comes to evaluation, there are three types of nonprofit organizations. The first type of nonprofit organization is one that, by most accounts, is satisfied with their evaluation efforts.…
Descriptors: Nonprofit Organizations, Institutional Characteristics, Multivariate Analysis, Program Implementation
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Schad, Iven; Roessler, Regina; Neef, Andreas; Zarate, Anne Valle; Hoffmann, Volker – Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension, 2011
This study aims to analyze the potential and constraints of group-based extension approaches as an institutional innovation in the Vietnamese agricultural extension system. Our analysis therefore unfolds around the challenges of how to foster this kind of approach within the hierarchical extension policy setting and how to effectively shape and…
Descriptors: Rural Extension, Foreign Countries, Content Analysis, Institutional Environment
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Godkin, Lynn; Allcorn, Seth – Human Resource Development Review, 2009
Narcissistic leadership can benefit organizational performance. Aberrant narcissism can destroy the psychosocial health of groups, limiting performance. This article examines Dependent Organizational Disorder, a common form of narcissism, which infects leadership, thwarts performance, and interrupts organizational learning. Dependent…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Human Resources, Leadership, Personality Traits
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Konrath, Sara; Au, Josephine; Ramsey, Laura R. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2012
Women are visually depicted with lower facial prominence than men, with consequences for perceptions of their competence. The current study examines the relationship between the size of this "face-ism" bias (i.e., individual or micro-level sexism) and a number of gender inequality indicators (i.e., institutional or macro-level sexism) at the…
Descriptors: Cultural Differences, Gender Bias, Gender Discrimination, Human Body
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Treat, Tod – New Directions for Community Colleges, 2011
The effective integration of planning to include bricks, bytes, brains, and bandwidth (the 4Bs) represents an opportunity for community colleges to extend their capacity as knowledge-intensive organizations, coupling knowledge, technology, and learning. Integration is important to ensure that the interplay among organizations, agents within them,…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Team Training, Planning, Technology Integration
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Ekman, Richard H. – Planning for Higher Education, 2011
America's private colleges and universities include most of the oldest institutions of higher education in the country, and their evolving physical campuses say much about American education. In recent years, the study of campus history, preservation, and adaptive reuse has received increasing attention by many sectors of the educational…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Campuses, Architecture, Universities
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Barton, William H.; Mackin, Juliette R. – Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 2012
In 2006, the administration of a state-run, secure juvenile correctional facility initiated an attempt to transform its institutional culture using a strength-based approach to assessment and case planning. This resulted in a rapid improvement in institutional climate. The current study revisits this setting several years later to see if those…
Descriptors: Fidelity, Sustainability, Program Effectiveness, Institutionalized Persons
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Spillane, James P.; Kenney, Allison W. – Journal of Educational Administration, 2012
Purpose: Research, spanning half a century, points to the critical role of school administration and to the successful implementation of US government policies and programs. In part these findings reflect the times and a US educational governance system characterized by local control, a constitutionally-constrained federal government,…
Descriptors: Integrity, Educational Change, Federal Government, Institutional Environment
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Parton, Brent T. – Peabody Journal of Education, 2011
Strategies aiming to foster social cohesion seek to enhance predictability and trust among heterogeneous actors. Although undoubtedly nation-states remain the dominant context for examining social cohesion, in Europe and in South America, nation-states have formed regional organizations to support political stability and economic cooperation in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Governance, Social Integration, Maintenance
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Pokharel, Mohan P.; Hult, Karen M. – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to explore the learning dynamics in the local level public organizations due to a policy intervention in collaboration with university. This study aims to identify the existence of four different types of organizational learning in different localities and to explain their implications to public sector…
Descriptors: Public Sector, Foster Care, Public Agencies, Organizational Development
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Gayton, Jeffrey T. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 2008
The apparent death of academic libraries, as measured by declining circulation of print materials, reduced use of reference services, and falling gate counts, has led to calls for a more "social" approach to academic libraries: installing cafes, expanding group study spaces, and developing "information commons." This study compares these social…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Library Facilities, Institutional Environment
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MacLaren, Iain – London Review of Education, 2012
Whilst much of the rhetoric of current educational policy champions creativity and innovation, structural reforms and new management practices in higher education run counter to the known conditions under which creativity flourishes. As a review of recent literature suggests, surveillance, performativity, the end of tenure and rising levels of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Role of Education, School Role
Okpogba, Desmond – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The purpose of this mixed-method study was to explore the relationship between faculty self-efficacy, organizational structure, and collegial trust. The concepts of teacher self-efficacy, organizational structure, and collegial trust were used to investigate any possible empirical relationships existing between these variables in a private,…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Trust (Psychology), Teacher Attitudes, Self Efficacy
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