[PDF] Top 20 University professors as academic leaders: professorial leadership development needs and provision

... gain university status until after ...post-1992 university is generally less prestigious than it is in pre-1992 ...of professorial titles in the former polytechnics and colleges of higher education ... See full document

... recognised leadership role being analysed/examined and are subject to the effects and impact of its ...distributed leadership, such as Gosling et ...of leadership is predicated on acceptance that it ... See full document

... that academic entrepreneurs are generally thought to lack skills and prior experience pertaining to commercialization efforts, professors in later stages of their career might deviate from the norm since ... See full document

... As Neil describes it, his drive to meet these challenges stems from a desire to make a difference and to be an effective leader. He also confides (and Jerry confirmed) that he’d very much like to be a more senior leader. ... See full document

... management development to establish what other researchers have established in the link between management development and organizational ...management development and organizational performance have ... See full document

... unknown. Academic leaders are well-positioned to initiate change and transform the academic ...to leadership positions with minimal orientation to the ...Moreover, leaders in ... See full document

... whilst university educators may not meet any of the traditional and often theoretically challenged definition models, they "exhibit high levels of the attitudinal attributes associated with ... See full document

... transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organizations in Malaysia with 379 participants and reported no significant gender, race, marital status and educational level difference ... See full document

... In most universities, there are formal programmes for academics to meet their teaching-related academic development needs. These often take the form of a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) that leads ... See full document

... of academic mentorship. Traditionally, academic advising tended to be focused mainly on helping students choose courses, especially after joining college or ...which academic advising was seen as an ... See full document

... professional development (Smyth, 1 988; Robinson & Absolum, 1 990; Wadsworth, 1 990a) and in their personal development (Gray, 1 ...for leaders to discover their own theories of action, unlock ... See full document

... enter university with the requisite academic literacy skills in ...this university has embraced, will lead to increasing numbers of non-traditional and pathways students being enrolled and if their ... See full document

... “People are required to conform to technology. It is time to reverse this trend, time to make technology conform to people” Software has become more complex in terms of features and functionality due to integration of ... See full document

... academic leaders who do not receive formal training in management. In order to obtain valid results, two groups of participants were used. Experienced experts in management and medical education in the ... See full document

... academics, academic leaders have had a growing reliance on casual workers—both casual researchers and sessional ...senior university managers that use of casual researchers and sessional teaching ... See full document

... recruitment criteria, (2) irrelevant curricula (disconnection between theory and practice), (3) inadequate clinical practice, (4) weak faculty (teaching staff) and weak instructional practices (Levine, 2005; Mitgang, ... See full document

... Question four was answered, in simple terms, in that the researcher was able to identify the three leadership behaviors rated highest and the three leadership behaviors rated lowest for principals with the ... See full document

... on leadership in business and education contexts, relatively little is known about how medical leaders ...transactional leadership, Historically there has been a perception that transactional ... See full document

... if academic standards are to be maintained and all students to benefit maximally from their university experience, then English language entry standards need to be suitably ...language provision ... See full document

... female leadership development; therefore creating a trifecta gap in the higher education, female, and leadership ...for leadership have been established for the community college systems ... See full document