Dissertations / Theses on the topic 'Bad leadership'

The purpose of this paper is to explore individuals’ experiences of unethical leadership by examining it from an employee perspective. The concept of ethical leadership, organizational ethical culture, and unethical behavior guide this study together with the components of vicarious learning, and role ethically. The research question is based on three main areas, unethical leadership, unethical behavior, and ethical culture, and it follows: What are employees’experiences of unethical leadership and what does those experiences reveal about the leaders’behaviors and the organizational ethical culture? The method was through a qualitative questionnaire conducted online and through a multiple case study six informants’ experiences were explored. The findings show that all the informants perceived their leaders as not being ethical and fair, being bad roles models, and not being an example of good ethical behavior. Conclusions are that the influence of unethical leadership creates negative experiences in the informants and those experiences were presented in a range of different emotions and behaviors.

In this thesis inter-disciplinary research from the fields of business ethics, moral philosophy, criminology, social psychology and neuro-cognitive science are synthesised to develop a causal factor model which explains why good people do bad things in business. The model was tested by interviewing senior executives involved in corporate crimes and the results have significant implications for ethics education and training.

Who has never heard anything about leadership? This concept appears almost everywhere: in the classroom, on TV program, in reviews, in books, etc. However, who really knows about the real nature of leadership? Most of you might have a good image of it in mind. However, the reality is far different. How many of you have ever listened to stories whereby people were stressed or were depressive due to their job? In this thesis, we will expose how the business environment is "contaminated" by leaders presenting toxic behaviours. Once toxic behaviours occur in the company, the entire system becomes "alienated", its welfare is undermined. Leaders, in our view, act like snakes which, with its venom contaminate, step by step, their environment. The best way to erase toxins, in such surrounding is to be first aware of its root. For knowing this issue, please, attach your belt, the travel will start …

Människor rör sig runt i en större omfattning jämfört med förr i tiden. Detta har medfört ett ökat intresse bland forskare att studera just kommunikation och organisationskultur inom organisationer och företag. Oavsett vilken bransch och marknad en organisation verkar inom har dessa ämnen blivit aktuella att studera och reflektera kring hur organisationens helhet (strukturen, anställdas gemenskap, ledarskapet etc.) faktiskt fungerar. Våra forskningsfrågor är: Hur kan kommunikationen påverka organisationens kultur; mellan ledaren och anställda samt anställda sinsemellan? Hur kan ledarskapets kommunikation påverka organisationskulturen på företaget? Vårt syfte med detta arbete är att undersöka olika organisationers interna kommunikation, hur denna kan påverka organisationskulturen samt ledarskapet och hur de samspelar med varandra. Det kan bidra till mer kunskap till de organisationer som känner att den interna kommunikationen brister i organisationsledet. Rapporten kan även bidra till att organisationer blir medvetna om ämnesområdet. Detta arbete går ut på att få en djupare förståelse för det valda ämnet, vilket innebär att det är en studie som har en kvalitativ karaktär som vi studerat utifrån ett hermeneutiskt synsätt. Vi har därmed ställt helheten i relation till rapportens olika delar för att få en djup och bred förståelse kring de utvalda ämnesområdena. För att få svar på våra forskningsfrågor har vi i vår studie använt oss av både sekundära och primära datakällor. Vi har valt att även använda oss av intervjuer, specifikt semistrukturerade intervjuer. Vi har intervjuat respondenter som har ett ansvarsområde (ledar-/chefsroll) inom liknande branscher och storlek (storlek beräknat på antal heltidsanställda) och anställda som inte har ansvarsområden. Intern kommunikation är mest optimal när samtliga anställda, både med och utan ansvarsområde, i en organisation känner till kommunikationskanalerna, kulturen samt de visioner och mål som råder. Ett väl sammansvetsat samspel av alla dessa aspekter bidrar till en stark, konkurrenskraftig och framgångsrik organisation.
People are moving around in a greater extent than in the past. This has led to an increased interest among researchers to study communication and organizational culture within organizations and companies. No matter what business and marketing organizations are operating in, the subject has become topical for them to study and reflect on how the whole organization (structure, community members, leadership, etc.) actually works. Our research questions are: How can communication affect the organization's culture; between the leader and the members and the members among themselves? How can leadership communication affect the organizational culture of the company? Main purpose with our paper is to explore various corporate internal communications. As well how this can affect organizational culture and leadership and how they interact with each other. It can contribute to i.e. more knowledge to the organizations who feel that internal communication deficiencies in the organizations different levels. The report can also help the organizations that are not aware of the subject to become aware. Our purpose is as well to gain a deeper understanding of the chosen topic. This means that there is a study that has a qualitative character, which we studied from a hermeneutics approach. It is our intention to get as close to reality as possible. We have placed the various parts of this paper together to get a deep and broad understanding of the chosen field of study. We have chosen to have interviews, specifically semi-structured interviews. We interviewed respondents who have a responsibility (leadership/management role) in similar industries and size (size based on the number of full-time employees) and employees who do not have responsibilities. Internal communications are most optimal when all members of an organization know the channels of communication, culture and the vision and objectives prevails. A close-knit interaction of all these aspects contributes to a strong competitive organization.

Public institutions have the responsibility to deliver various services to the public in the most effective and efficient manner. In South Africa, many public sector reforms were instituted after 1994. The main reasons for these reforms were to improve the access of the historically disadvantaged to public services, to increase efficiencies, to reduce costs and to reduce public debt. Despite improvements to the policy framework that underpins service delivery by the public sector, however, there are still many challenges in the delivery of public services. An improved public policy to deliver service alone is not enough if not supported by effective systems and processes for actual delivery, as well as effective leadership that leads and ensures the delivery of such services. Improving the organisational effectiveness of public institutions is therefore important in South Africa. The present study explores the role that leadership plays in the pursuit of organisational effectiveness in a selected public institution, namely the South African Police Service (SAPS). The primary objective of this study is to improve the organisational effectiveness of SAPS in the Nelson Mandela Bay municipal area by investigating the influence of leadership style (transactional and transformational) and personality (Machiavellian, narcissistic, collectivistic, masculine and feminine) on organisational effectiveness of SAPS (as measured by overall organisational performance and the individual job performance intentions of police officers). The research design is positivistic, as the relationships among the above-mentioned variables are statistically tested. The sample consisted of 90 police officers of senior rank drawn from five police stations in the Nelson Mandela Bay. The empirical results were reported and interpreted. These results revealed that constructive narcissistic and collectivistic leadership personality traits, as well as transformational leadership style exert a positive influence on the organisational performance of the Nelson Mandela Bay police precincts. The empirical results also showed that collectivistic leadership personality traits influence the performance intent of these police officials positively. These results are discussed in terms of the implications they hold for the managers of police precincts. The limitations of the study are reported which provide areas for future research.

The purpose of this study was to examine the factors that motivate high school students to participate in school band. The relationships between music education, academic success, and social engagement in school were explored. A survey questionnaire and interview questions were used to generate response data from 45 high school band members. Data were gathered, coded, and analyzed using qualitative survey and structured interview design techniques. A systematic approach was used to create a viable narrative that, when added to existing literature, provided a better understanding of the topic for those decision makers struggling to find justifications for how and why band is an important option for high school students. Findings from this study support earlier research and provide a strong case for the claim that many students are intellectually, emotionally, expressively, and musically nurtured by membership in school band. Stress relief was a powerful theme throughout student responses and many students indicated that band was an important place where they were able to build their strongest support relationships. The information acquired from this study provided insight into student perceptions about the value of band participation from environmental, behavioral, and cognitive viewpoints and highlighted the importance of band as a social and emotional support space where students are able to find sanctuary from the stressors of their lives.

This dissertation examines the reciprocal relationship between text literacy and music literacy through an experimental design. Music teachers and English Language Arts (ELA) teachers often address similar components of literacy, including fluency, comprehension, and symbolic interpretation. The theory of cognitive structuralism maintains that through derivative and correlative subsumption, material that is learned in one context is strengthened when applied in a disparate context. Therefore, ELA and music teachers who work in isolation are missing an opportunity to teach parallel literacy concepts for the common advantage of teachers and students. This study seeks to explain how students enrolled in conventional and literacy-enriched band environments perform better than non-band students on text literacy tests. It also asks if conventional band students differ from literacy-enriched band students on text and musical literacy tests.

Fourth-grade students were randomly assigned to one of three groups: a control group (n = 11), a conventionally taught beginning band group (n = 11), and a literacy-enriched beginning band group (n = 10). The experimental treatment included 14 small group band lessons and 14 full band rehearsals. Groups were then compared for textual literacy growth using the NWEA Measures of Academic Performance (MAP) and musical growth using the Watkins Farnum Performance Scale (WFPS). ANCOVA planned contrasts showed that literacy-enriched students significantly outperformed conventional band students and control students on the MAP literature reading subtest. The research design allowed for the defense of literacy-enriched band instruction as a generalizable cause of higher literacy scores.

Additional comparisons between the control group and the two experimental groups revealed no statistically significant differences between the group means on the overall reading scores or the remaining reading subtest scores. The lack of significance suggested that the statistical model was a poor fit for the data. Furthermore, a small sample size and large unexplained variance contributed to a lack of statistical power. Therefore, the application of the cognitive structuralist theory on the remaining MAP reading tests remained inconclusive.

The conventional and literacy-enriched band groups were also compared against each other on text and music literacy growth. There were no statistically significant differences between the conventional group and literacy-enriched group on the MAP or on the WFPS. This suggested that literacy-enriched instruction in band could benefit a student’s textual literacy skills without compromising musical performance goals. It also suggested that more study is needed to determine the extent to which the explicit instruction of ELA reading skills in band may benefit musical ability.

The overall findings implied that literacy-enriched band instruction caused higher textual literacy scores, and the results may be generalized to similar circumstances. Suggestions for practice included increased collaboration among teachers, enhanced teacher pre-service and in-service opportunities, additional use of student-centered progressive instructional strategies, and the careful reconsideration of eliminating or reducing the availability of band to students. Future research would benefit from the quantitative and qualitative models proposed herein.

A survey was distributed to all enrolled members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indian (EBCI) college students to compare the experiences of those attending Tribal and non-tribal colleges. The results of the survey provided data for a nonexperimental quantitative study that addressed 18 research questions in an effort to determine whether there is a significant difference between the educational experiences of EBCI college students who attend non-tribal institutions and those who attend Tribal colleges. In particular, there was a focus on three domains: student viewpoints on separation and alienation from their tribal community; tribal community connections; and individual perceptions of success. A comparison of the experiences by gender between students attending Tribal versus non-tribal colleges was made. The researcher used the Native American Collective Orientation and Pursuits in Education Scale (NACOPE) survey results as determinants of the college students’ experiences. The findings of this study indicated there were no significant differences between the experiences of EBCI students who attended either Tribal or nontribal colleges. In addition, there were no significant differences when gender and type of college were considered. However, there were significant differences in those attending Tribal and nontribal colleges regarding some dimensions. Students in both groups had significantly higher survey scores than the median test value on the NACOPE in three areas. These higher scores were observed in their overall experiences being reported as positive; feelings of community connectedness to their home tribe; and less feelings of separation and alienation on their college campuses.

I denna studie undersöks hur gemenskap och sammanhållning i en ungdomsblåsorkester ser ut och hanteras både utifrån orkesterledarens och de deltagande ungdomarnas synvinkel. Även betydelsen av gemenskap och sammanhållning och hur den tar sin form är frågor som besvaras i uppsatsen. Datamaterialet består av intervjuer med olika grupper av ungdomar ur den studerade ungdomsorkestern samt en intervju med orkesterns ledare. Den studerade orkestern kommer från en stad i mellersta Sverige. I resultatet visas att det är viktigt med en orkestergemenskap och att gemenskapen fås och visar sig i både sociala och musikaliska aktiviteter som bland annat resor, läger, fikastunder, repetitioner och konserter. Blåsorkestern har tydliga musikaliska mål med sin verksamhet och både Ledaren och ungdomarna vill att orkestern ska låta bra och uppnå goda musikaliska resultat. För att nå goda resultat menar Ledaren att gemenskap och sammanhållning är en förutsättning för att verksamheten och det musikaliska arbetet ska fungera. De sociala aktiviteterna ses visserligen som viktiga och för många en bidragande orsak att stanna kvar i Blåsorkestern, men själva musicerandet ses ändå som det allra viktigaste. Resultaten diskuteras utifrån formella och informella aktiviteter med utgångspunkt i teorier om grupper och dess processer, ledarskapsteorier och teorier om sammanhållning.
The present study examines how the community and cohesion in a youth wind band may appear and is handled both by the orchestra conductor and the participating youth's point of view. The importance of community and cohesion and how it takes its shape are questions that are answered in the study. The data material consists of interviews with different youth groups from the studied youth wind band and an interview with the wind band's conductor. The studied band comes from a town in central Sweden. The result shows that it is important to have an orchestra community and that the community is present and active through both social and musical activities, including trips, camps, coffee breaks, rehearsals and concerts. The wind band has clear musical goals with their activities and both the leader and the youth strive for a good sound and to achieve good musical results. In order to achieve good results the leader emphasizes that community and cohesion is essential for the activities and the musical work to function. The social activities are certainly regarded as important and for many a contributing factor to remain in the wind band, but musicianship is still seen as the most important factor. The results are discussed based on formal and informal activities on the basis of theories of groups and its processes, leadership theories and theories of cohesion.

I dagens samhälle ser inte arbetsplatsernas sociala miljö likadan ut som förr, idag krävs det mer både utav anställda och arbetsgivare när det kommer till att se efter de sociala relationerna. Nyckeln till framgång inom många stora företag sägs vara kommunikation och samarbetsförmåga. Mycket ansvar läggs på den som leder gruppen med anställda och ett företags framgång hänger ofta ihop med hur en ledare styr sin personal. Dagens arbete skiljer sig från förr i tiden, idag krävs det att anställda och personalansvariga är mycket mer flexibla, har samarbetsförmåga och är motiverade att utföra sitt arbete. Syftet med denna studie är att utifrån ett socialpsykologiskt perspektiv förstå relationen mellan ledare och grupp och belysa ledarens roll i sammanhanget. Personansvariga och anställda som blev intervjuade arbetade på tre olika orter på ett inomhus-lekland för barn. Analysen berör aspekterna: organisationsstruktur, ledarstilar, flexibilitet, sociala band, social responsivitet respektive asocial responslöshet. Resultatet analyseras utifrån Robert Kreitner, Michael Allvin, Rolf Granér och Thomas Scheff.

In today’s society the atmosphere of the workplace looks nothing like what it has in the past.The expectations of both employees and employers has shifted drastically. Companies haveplaced a new emphasis on communication within their organizations in the belief thatcommunication is the key to successful cooperation. Within more and more organizations, agreater level of responsibility is being placed upon managers when it comes to creatingeffective leadership for those employees working under them. Much of the success of theseorganizations is now derived from how well their middle and lower level managers areleading their teams. There are other aspects of the modern business environment that alsoserve to differentiate it from the past. Today’s work requires a greater level of flexibility forboth managers and employees, as well as demanding from all members of organization anincreased ability to work in team-based, cooperative environments. The purpose of thisinvestigation is to understand the relationship between leaders and group members withinbusinesses and the result is analyzed on the basis of organizations from a social psychologybased perspective. This analysis is based upon interviews with personnel managers andemployees working at multiple different children's indoor-playgrounds in three differentcities. The analysis will examine the following aspects: structure of an organisation, leadertypes, flexibility, social bonds, social response respective asocial lack of responsitivity.Robert Kreitner, Michael Allvin, Rolf Granér and Thomas Scheff.

Since the implementation and achievement score pressures of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, elective course offerings such as music have been drastically reduced, especially in the middle school setting. A great deal of correlational research has shown a positive correlation between music education in school and students’ overall academic achievement. This study examined the correlation between those middle school students that participated in the District Concert Band Music Performance Assessment (MPA) versus those middle school students that did not regarding their achievement scores on the 2016 English language arts (ELA) and mathematics subtests of the Florida Standards Assessments (FSA). The theoretical framework of this study was undergirded by Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. The researcher used a non-experimental ex post facto research design for the collection of the study’s data. The results indicated that there was a positive, statistically significant difference between both the ELA and mathematics achievement scores of those students that participated in the MPA and those that did not. There was also a positive, statistically significant difference between both the ELA and mathematics achievement scores of those students that participated in the MPA and the level of music their band performed. However, there was not a statistically significant difference between both the ELA and mathematics achievement scores of those students that performed at the MPA and the final overall rating that their band received. School administrators are charged with the responsibility of ensuring that effective programs are instituted in their schools so their students can be successful. The results of this quantitative non-experimental ex post facto study could provide administrators additional research-based evidence suggesting that band on the middle-school level, which is a branch of music education, could be a program to include in the school’s curriculum because it might positively contribute to the school’s ELA and mathematics achievement and academic culture. Additional research can also be conducted to observe the effects of music study on student achievement for students of all grade levels and socioeconomics. This would lead school administrators to continue practicing the notion of educating the whole child while making administrative decisions, which should be the sine qua non of education.

У роботі розглянуто теоретичні основи конкуренції та конкурентних стратегій. Запропоновано модель процесу формування конкурентної стратегії забезпечення ринкового лідерства, що надає можливість обрати конкурентну стратегію та формує конкурентні переваги. Надано загальну характеристику діяльності фітнес-клубу «Формула». Встановлено, що ринок фітнес-послуг є зростаючим. Проведено аналіз та анкетування з мотивації та задоволеності споживачів, виявлено основні потреби клієнтів. Запропоновано відкриття фітнес-бару на незайнятих площах клубу з продажу спортивного та здорового харчування, доведено його інвестиційну привабливість.
The paper considers the basics of competition and competitive strategies. To propose a model of the process of forming a competitive strategy to ensure market leadership, which provides an opportunity to choose a competitive strategy and form competitive advantages. The general characteristic of activity of fitness club "Formula" is carried out, according to all analyzes it is established that the market of fitness services is growing. Analyzes and questionnaires were conducted to motivate and satisfy consumers, and to identify the main needs of customers. It is proposed to open fitness bars in the unoccupied areas of the club for sports and healthy eating, and to prove its investment attractiveness.

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The purpose of this paper is to highlight the loss of moral capital incurred by an organization from indifferent or deferential followers of bad leaders. Despite the proliferation of codes of conduct and ethics and compliance programs throughout the business community, the prevalence of malevolence and malfeasance in organizations continues to rise. While a good deal is known about bad leadership, far less is known about bad followership.

碩士
國立中正大學
教育學碩士在職專班
104
The aim of this thesis is to study how band leaders in a junior high school utilize the ideas of balanced leadership in leading band members, and to propose action strategies which enhance the cohesion of school band members on the basis of study results. The five action strategies combined both technical and symbolical approaches of leadership, which included writing topical notes of concert band, instructing members to program campus lunch concerts, assisting members to form task teams, providing team feedback through open and various signals, and group discussion and exploring activities. As a band leader, the researcher expected to observe the cohesion condition of band members, and the factors that could possibly influence the cohesion of members. After the implementation of action strategies, the researcher also explored the changes in the situation of the band cohesion. The action research process enhanced the band leader’s self-reflection and growth. The participants were concert band members at Hearty Music Junior High School (alias). The research period ran from October 2015 to June 2016. The methods applied to collect information include questionnaires, in-depth interviews, observations, and literature analysis. The major findings of this study are summarized as follows: I. Band members of Hearty Music had had moderate team cohesion before the implementation of action plans. However, there were still some factors which influenced the members’ cohesion waiting to be solved, including person, time, environment, team, and leadership. II. The five action strategies which will enhance the cohesion of band members are developed by integrating balanced leadership principles and team cohesion theory. III. During the study period, the five action strategies positively enhance participants' cohesion. IV. According to the results of conducting action strategies, team members have positive reactions in their entire team cohesion and the other four cohesion factors. And the researcher concluded some study results for future strategies implementing improvements. In the end, suggestions for the further research and future courses of design were made. Based on the research results, specific recommendations are made as a reference for the concert band leaders, authority in schools, parents, and the subsequent researchers.

In the same manner that the first-century church had to shift from traditional Judaism to a radical spiritual imagination that included Gentiles, the contemporary American church must shift from paradigms of church rooted in medieval and modern forms of Christendom to new ideals that are appropriate for the postmodern context in which we now live. This happens, at least in part, by accepting the challenge of reimagining church theology and practices in order to reach more people. The loss of Christianity’s cultural prominence is coupled with the rapid decline in church attendance, leading many churches to face institutional maintenance crises and even impending demise. These phenomena indicate that North America is a ripe mission field for the gospel and that fresh approaches led by the Spirit must be employed to best reap a present-day harvest. The missional imagination provides insight into these approaches by focusing on God’s ultimate mission of world redemption and the church’s role in that process. Missional ecclesiology places discipleship at the center of church ministry. Within a missional orientation, discipleship is understood as the process by which people are introduced to Christ; engaged in perpetual spiritual formation, and grow into faithful, redeemed members of God’s community. In order to be a facilitator of this process, the contemporary church must embrace a missional ideology. Unfortunately, church leaders are not typically trained in the missional imagination. A mission-driven leadership development program is necessary because, in the absence of such a tool, leaders may instinctively default to practices that put the mission of the church at risk. Without missional training, there is an insufficient understanding of the correlation between worship experiences as spiritual formation and the realized mission of the church among team members. I serve as the Worship Pastor at the Luke Church of Humble, Texas. This is the focal site of this project. The hurdles facing the Luke Church are emblematic of the critique that others in the missional church movement have levied against the old, Christian models of church that still pervade many American congregations across the denominational and theological spectrum. For this project, I define worship as more than the fifteen minutes of singing couched within a service, but rather the conglomerate of our efforts to give God full honor, attention, and reverence as we endeavor to live faithfully into God’s redemption of the world. With this understanding, our worship leaders have the opportunity to shape people’s worship life through the intentional and excellent execution of their different roles. I will conduct a three-month leadership boot camp with the liturgical, ministry, and hospitality teams. This training will include general sessions as well as breakouts. Between meetings, participants will participate in readings, guided observation, and discussion groups. At the conclusion of the boot camp, leaders will have gained the necessary tools to reimagine practices within their domain. This leadership intensive will be largely based on the Missional Change Model with pedagogical grounding in Jack Mezirow’s Transformational Learning Theory and Nancy Ammerman’s work on congregational study.

碩士
銘傳大學
管理學院高階經理碩士學程
100
On the competitive environment, the teams in the organizations are the key factors that only through constant innovative ideas to go with the stream. The team has been able to bring so much utilitiesy, that enhancing the ability to solve problems through mutual coordinations and cooperations, creating effective team. The study uses the military-organization in Taiwan as an example.There are four units military band in Taiwan, which are including the department of defense demonstration of the band and military band of the land, sea and air forces. After ducting the addministrative staff, there are nearly 335 musicians.The questionnaires were sent out 335 people and recycled 330 people in the 39 teams. Tnis research analyzed through descriptive statisiscs, by SPSS, which involves correlation analysis and regression analysis to test various hypotheses. The results showed that: (1) Paternalistic leadership and team member interaction were a significant positive correlation; (2) Paternalistic leadership and the performance of team were a significant positive correlation; (3) Team members interact with the team performance were a significant positive correlation; (4) The interaction of team members for the mediating effect of paternalistic leadership and team effectiveness were not significant. Based on the above results, this study propose the following specific recommendations: (1) Leaders should be have benevolent leadership fot the team members which are upgrading the team performance, the can use love education to encourage team members. (2) Because of the same education qualifications of the leader and crew it shoud not use the authoritarian leadership and avoid the humiliation of group members. (3)The leader in the team should play the role of the listener, and improve the quality of upward communication. It will be helpful enhanced team performances.

碩士
國立臺灣藝術大學
藝術與人文教學研究所
100
The aim of this study was to find the relationship between conductors’ characteristic of the wind band and the different leadership styles in junior and elementary schools. A conductor was respected because he or she touched the emotion of explaining the music and the delicate technique. Additionally, the main point that he or she let students show the respect from the deep of part is “leading hearts”. Two questionnaires were designed in this study. First was “the characteristic test questionnaire” based on the dimension of Lai’s personality test. Another was the “leadership style test questionnaire“. I collected 11 conductors of the wind bands in the junior and elementary schools in Taipei City, New Taipei City and Keelung City. I classified two types of characteristics, the conductors type and the average type. There were 9 conductors’ characteristics were classified as “the conductor’s type”, and the other two were “the average type”. The meaning of “the conductor’s type” meets the transformation leadership, from the highest score to the lowest score was "encourage", "personal care", "intelligence stimulate" than "charming". And "personal care" gets higher score than "the work initiates" in Initiate and Consideration, which corresponded the Y theories of management style. The “average type” also matched up transformation leadership as well. The highest score to the lowest score is "encourage", "intelligence stimulate", "charming" and than "personal care". And "the work initiates" gets higher score than "personal care" in Initiate and Consideration, and it may be close to X theories of management style. This study’s contribution lies to expect directors understanding their own personality characteristic, considering the relation between personality characteristic and leading bands, and exhausting them to the transformation leadership of each level, then developing leadership charm becomes a student learning model, it can even promote bands’ effect. I also expect that the education administration organization can value band conductor more, let directors join the education curriculum of leadership curriculum, and increasing departments of band conductor education and leadership. To hold more studies about leader, and build up conductor profession review mechanism with providing schools choosing conductor of reference.

碩士
國立中興大學
國際政治研究所
97
Abstract In Northeast Asia and Asian Pacific region, the Korean Peninsula possesses the crucial strategic position. Especially during recent six months, the tension, igitated by Pyongyang’s possession of nuclear weapon and the aggressive demonstration of force, has pervaded the Peninsula, and imposed the security pressure on the neighboring nations as well. According to the vast differences in North Korea policy between South Korea’s previous and current administrations, the orientation of the policy varies. This thesis, therefore, assumes the differences in policy made by two administrations would be related to the style of the leadership. First, the three variables, which are the Reaction to Political constraints, the Openness to Information, and the Motivation for Action, would be taken from leadership cognitive approach perspective provided by Margaret G. Hermann to analyze and generalize the leadership style of Roh Moo-hyun and Lee Myung-bak. Second, the analysis would be focused on the influences of the leadership style of two leaders on the formulation and the implementation of the North Korea policy, and compare the content of the policy. Finally, the thesis concludes with the finding that the North Korea policy and the degree of the implementation of two leaders would affect the relation between South Korea and Pyongyang, the U.S.A., Japan, China, and Russia as well as the impact on the security of the region. The decisively influence on the formulation of the policy by the cognition of the leadership is found by fllowing the approach; therefore, the analysis acquires the highly explanation on the research of the North Korea policy affected by the individual cognition of Roh Moo-hyun and Lee Myung-bak.

Quel est le champ d’action des Amérindiens dans le contexte politique canadien? Malgré les tentatives de l’État canadien de briser la structure politique traditionnelle des Autochtones en introduisant le système électif et politique du conseil de bande, ceux-ci sont loin d'avoir été des victimes passives. L'étude du leadership interstitiel est la ligne directrice de cette thèse car il est la clé d’une pratique politique « in the cracks » qui confère un pouvoir marginal aux Amérindiens. En s'intéressant aux conditions historiques et sociales de déploiement de l’arène politique en milieu de réserve, il est possible de comprendre la quotidienneté et la contemporanéité de l’exercice du pouvoir au sein d’une population minoritaire fortement politisée. La recherche ethnographique porte sur la politique locale de la communauté algonquine de Kitigan Zibi (Québec). L’analyse des acteurs anishnabeg a montré une variabilité du leadership politique chez les Algonquins et l’existence de différents types de leader malgré l’imposition d’une fonction de chef par la Loi sur les Indiens. Le contrôle des affaires politiques officielles d’une bande par les agents coloniaux, c'est-à-dire les missionnaires et les agents indiens, n’a pas donné lieu à un contrôle total de sa dynamique politique interne et de ses membres. L'enquête de terrain a dévoilé que les diverses manifestations et actions politiques menées par les Anishnabeg s’avèrent être des stratégies du pouvoir dans la marge, une forme quotidienne de résistance face aux nouvelles façons de faire la politique établies par les autorités canadiennes, des ruses et des tactiques employées pour tenter de changer le système formel en remettant en question le pouvoir des Affaires indiennes. La contestation et la résistance ne sont toutefois pas l’unique moteur du leadership et de la politique amérindienne. En fait, le leadership politique chez les Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg est aussi basé sur diverses représentations (traditionnelles, spirituelles, symboliques) qui ont permis aux Algonquins de préserver une identité politique malgré certaines ruptures et transformations introduites dans leur société par les colonisateurs. Les ambiguïtés, les contradictions et les paradoxes de la quotidienneté politique d’une bande autochtone ne sont pas que le résultat de la rencontre d’un univers politique Autre, mais aussi l’aboutissement de l’évolution et de la reconstruction d’un système sociopolitique traditionnel et de ses dynamiques internes reliées au pouvoir, d’une redéfinition de l’autorité et de la légitimité du politique, de l'essor de leaders nouveau genre pour répondre adéquatement aux exigences politiques de la vie en réserve. La politique de réserve n’est pas une chose concrète mais plutôt une dynamique dans un temps et dans un lieu donné, au chevauchement culturel de diverses traditions politiques et formes d’autorité, au truchement de divers espaces (imposé ou symbolique) et institutions (formelle et informelle). Les Algonquins se renouvellent continuellement politiquement au sein de leur système. Ceci n’est pas un effet de l’acculturation, d’une hybridité ou de la modernité mais relève bien de la tradition. Le rattachement de fonctions et dynamiques traditionnelles à la structure formelle constitue un début de gouvernance « par le bas ». Cette dernière renouvelle de l’intérieur, par l’établissement d’un dialogue, la relation entre les leaders autochtones et les représentants de l’État, ce qui donne aux acteurs locaux une marge de manœuvre. Les Algonquins ont saisi les incompatibilités des deux systèmes – blanc et autochtone – pour définir un nouveau territoire, « in the cracks », qui devient leur domaine d’action. L'analyse de la flexibilité du leadership algonquin, de la vision eurocanadienne du leadership amérindien, de l’usage instrumental des exigences de l’État, des élections et des éligibles contemporains, de l'empowerment des femmes algonquines et du leadership féminin en milieu de réserve, a révélé que le leadership interstitiel est une force politique pour les Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg. En portant un regard critique sur la politique locale dans le quotidien d'une bande et en incluant les voix autochtones, il est possible d’observer le processus de décolonisation et des formes embryonnaires de pratiques postcoloniales au sein des réserves. Cette recherche a démontré que le chef et les autres leaders sont au cœur de cette dynamique politique dans les marges, de l’essor et de l’émancipation politique de leur bande.
What is the scope of Indian participation in Canadian politics? Despite the Canadian governments’ attempts to break traditional Indigenous' political structures by introducing the Band Council system, First Peoples are far from passive victims. The study of interstitial leadership is the theoretical framework of this thesis because it is the key to political practices that take place "in the cracks", thereby conferring marginal power to Indigenous Peoples. By examining the historical and social conditions for the development of the political arena in reserves, it is possible to understand the everyday and contemporaneity of the exercise of power within a highly politicized minority population. The present ethnographic research focuses on the local politics of the Algonquin community of Kitigan Zibi (Quebec). Anishnabeg stakeholder analysis showed a variability of Algonquin political leadership and the existence of different types of leaders in spite of the imposition of a single chief through the Indian Act. The control of the band’s official political affairs by colonial agents, that is to say the missionaries and the Indian agents, has not resulted in the complete control of internal political dynamics and members. The fieldwork revealed that the various political actions undertaken by the Anishnabeg prove to be power strategies from the margin, a form of everyday resistance to the new ways of doing politics established by the Canadian authorities. These actions were also tricks and tactics used to challenge the formal system and the Indian Affairs power. Opposition and resistance however are not the only instruments of Native leadership and politics. In fact, the Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg political leadership is also based on various representations (i.e. traditional, spiritual, and symbolic) that helped preserve Algonquin political identity despite some disruptions and changes introduced into their society by the colonizers. Ambiguities, contradictions and paradoxes found in everyday band politics are not only the result of the meeting of an Other political universe. They are also the culmination of the development and reconstruction of a traditional sociopolitical system and its internal dynamics related to power, a redefinition of the authority and political legitimacy, the rise of a new leaders genre to adequately respond to the demands of the reserve’s political life. Reserve politics are not a concrete ‘thing’ but rather a dynamic that exists within a particular time and in a given place. Additionally, overlapping different cultural and political traditions as well as various forms of authority, occur in various spaces (imposed or symbolic) and institutions (formal and informal). The Algonquin are continually renewing themselves politically within their system. This is not an effect of acculturation, hybridity, and modernity but of tradition. The joining of traditional functions and dynamics to the formal structure represents the beginning of a governance "from below". The latter renews from within, through the establishment of a dialogue, the relationship between Aboriginal leaders and representatives of the State, which provides room for manoeuvre to local protagonists. The Algonquins seized upon the incompatibilities between the two systems - Settler and Aboriginal - to define a new territory "in the cracks" which became their field of action. The analysis of the flexibility of Algonquin leadership, the Euro-Canadien vision of the Native leadership, the instrumental use of State requirements, the contemporary elections and candidates, Algonquin women's empowerment and female leadership within reserve have showed that the interstitial leadership is a political force for the Kitigan Zibi Anishnabeg. By wearing a critical eye on local politics in daily band life and by including Indigenous voices, it is possible to observe the process of decolonization as well as the embryonic forms of postcolonial practices within reserves. This research has shown that the chief and other leaders are at the heart of this political dynamic in the margins and the political development and empowerment of their band.

碩士
國立中正大學
教育學研究所
103
The purpose of the research is to investigate the relationship between the perception of the wind band members in the elementary schools about the conductor’s leadership and their learning attitude. Questionnaire survey was applied in this research. 470 samples that had participated in the national music contests or the city (county) music contests were selected to finish the questionnaires, and 446 were valid. In this study, statistical analysis, including means, standard deviation, T-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson’s product-moment correlation and Scheffé’s method were applied to analyze the data. The results of the research are as follow: 1.The perception of the wind band members in elementary schools about the conductors’ leadership and their learning attitude were both good. 2. The members who are in the lower grades, who play the woodwind instruments and who have shorter learning time on the instruments perceived more about the conductors’ leadership than others. 3. The members with different background variation show significant difference about the conductors’ leadership in certain dimensions. (1) The junior conductors’ leadership is better than the senior ones in every dimension. (2) The senior school conductors’ leadership is better than the junior ones in school. (3)The conductors who graduated from the graduate schools show better in the dimensions of “intellectual stimuli”,”individual concern” and “adaptable awards” than those who graduated from the university, not related to the music major. (4) Those from the middle- or big-sized schools in the northern and central Taiwan show better than those from southern Taiwan. 4.The members’ perception about the conductors’ different background variation shows different learning attitude in some dimensions. (1)The senior conductors significantly influence the members’ learning habit and learning skills in the dimension of learning attitude, but not in the dimension of the environmental perception. (2) The members’ learning attitude in the schools with senior school conductors shows better than the other groups. But it shows no difference in learning motivation and the environmental perception with different years of service. (3) The members whose conductors were graduated from the non music-related graduate schools have better learning skills in the dimension of learning attitude than those whose conductors were graduated from the music-related undergraduate schools. (4) Those from the middle- or big-sized schools in the northern and central Taiwan show better than those from southern Taiwan. 5. The perception of the wind band members in the elementary schools about the conductor’s leadership shows positive correlation with the members’ learning attitude. Finally, suggestions were proposed to the band conductors, the band administrators and for further researches based the results of the study.

碩士
國立臺南大學
科技管理碩士班
101
This case study is to investigate a long-term care organization concerning the issue of aging and low fertility in Taiwan society. The relationship among leadership style, customer feedback, organizational culture and value creation are closely observed. How leadership style and customer feedback have brought the impacts to the birth of the organizational culture is considered. The result has produced a module which can: (1) lead the long-term care organization to a bright and kind development, (2)be well applied on newly recruited caretakers and any long-term care organizations, (3) provide a core life value to the senior citizens staying at the organizations, (4) offer a method that a long-term care organization can expand its branch care stations. This module also facilitate a long-term organization to hold onto its business core value.

This thesis traces the history of organization from the society of Ancient Athens, through the medieval Church, the Industrial Age, and the 20th century – the latter characterized by the Bureaucratic, Administratively controlled, and Hierarchical (BAH) organization – until today’s contemporary reality of Ubiquitous Connectivity and Pervasive Proximity (UCaPP). Organizations are rarely, if ever, entirely BAH or entirely UCaPP, but do tend to have tendencies and behaviours that are more consistent with either end of a spectrum delineated by this duality. Valence Theory defines organization as being an emergent entity whose members (individuals or organizations) are connected via two or more of five valence (meaning uniting, bonding, interacting, reacting, combining) relationships. Each of these relationships – Economic, Socio-psychological, Identity, Knowledge, and Ecological – has a fungible (mercantile or tradable) aspect, and a ba-aspect that creates a space-and-place of common, tacit understanding of self-identification-in-relation, mutual sense of purpose, and volition to action. Organizations with more-BAH tendencies will emphasize the fungible valence forms, and primarily tend towards Economic valence dominance; more-UCaPP organizations tend to emphasize ba-valence forms, and are more balanced among the relative valence strengths. The empirical research investigates five organizations spanning the spectrum from über-BAH to archetypal UCaPP and discovers how BAH-organizations replace the complexity of human dynamics in social systems with the complication of machine-analogous procedures that enable structural interdependence, individual responsibility, and leader accountability. In contrast, UCaPP-organizations encourage and enable processes of continual emergence by valuing and promoting complex interactions in an environment of individual autonomy and agency, collective responsibility, and mutual accountability. The consequential differences in how each type of organization operates manifest as the methods through which organizations accommodate change, coordination, evaluation, impetus, power dynamics, sense-making, and view of people. Particular attention is paid to the respective natures of leadership, and effecting organizational transformation from one type to the other. Set in counterpoint against Zen-like, artistically constructed conversations with a thought-provoking interior sensei, the thesis offers a new foundational model of organization for the current cultural epoch that enables people to assume their responsibility in creating relationships and perceiving effects in the context of a UCaPP world.

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南華大學
企業管理系管理科學碩博士班
101
The purposes of this study were to explore the effects of coaches'' leadership behavior, organizational identification on team cohesion with using flow experience as an intermediary factor. The objects are members of marching band in junior and senior high schools in Chiayi. 458 students were investigated with coaches'' leadership behavior scale, organizational identification scale, flow experience scale and team cohesion scale as instruments. Data that collected were analyzed with regression analysis by SPSS18. 　 　　The results were as follows: 1. Members with different background make significant difference on the perceptive degree of coaches'' leadership behavior, organizational identification, flow experience and team cohesion. 2. There is a significantly positive correlation between coaches'' leadership behavior, organizational identification, flow experience and team cohesion. 3. Flow Experience causes mediating effect between coaches'' leadership behavior and team cohesion. 4. Flow experience causes mediating effect between organizational identification and team cohesion.

This study focuses on the role of school managers in addressing challenges associated with the implementation of continuous assessment (CASS) in the Further Education and Training (FET) band in Mopani District. It furthermore investigates to what degree school managers in the district engage in performing the “traditional” leadership and management roles which create a conducive atmosphere for the implementation of CASS. A thorough literature review provides an understanding of the emerging trends and challenges in the implementation of CASS internationally. Most of these challenges are analogous with those constraining the implementation of CASS in Mopani District. The data were collected by means of semi-structured interviews and questionnaires from purposively sampled district educators and school management teams (SMTs) who came from randomly selected schools. The findings enumerated the insufficient training for school managers and infrequency of performing “traditional” leadership and management roles as some of the factors hampering the implementation of CASS in the district schools.
Educational Studies
M. Ed (Education Management)

The dissertation is a study to determine which program, Reading First or Bay State Reading Initiative, will demonstrate the greatest gains in reading for students in grades K–3 using a 3-Tier Reading Model. The findings from this study are intended to provide pertinent information on which best practices work in increasing student achievement for reading. Education reform continues to be a hot topic at all levels within the United States. With the spending of billions of federals, state and local dollars, the persistent talk of accountability is ongoing. Since NCLB inception, the year 2014 when all students need to reach proficiency in statewide standardized tests in mathematics and reading, continues to be a threatening time period. With each state setting its own definition and determination of what proficiency is, it is measured by the Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP). This AYP measurement will determine each school's progress incrementally until it reaches 100% in 2014. 48% of all schools in Massachusetts failed to make their AYP in 2004. It is predicted that by 2014, 90% of schools in Massachusetts will not reach its APY obligation (MassPartners for Public Schools, 2005). With the pursuit of reaching AYP, the search is still on for what best practices work in increasing student achievement. This study utilizes a mixed method research design; including quantitative analysis of the reading scores, a qualitative analysis of teacher and administrator perspective on the effectiveness of each program and a financial cost-effectiveness comparison of the two programs. The quantitative research design includes comparing DIBELS and GRADE results of two elementary schools for students in grades K–3 each of which uses a different reading program. School A uses the Houghton Mifflin Reading Series for their core reading curriculum while School B uses Scott Foresman Reading Street. In addition to comparing the aggregate scores of each school to each other, a number of sub-groups will also be compared. These groups will include low income students (students who receive free and reduced lunch), students with limited English proficiency (LEP), and special education students. Mean comparisons will be utilized to identify which program produces the best results. In order to identify strengthens and weaknesses of each approach a questionnaire will be utilize to obtain this information from teachers and the administrators who took part in implementing both programs. In these times of tight budgets and difficult decisions on how to meet the needs of all students it is imperative that cost effectiveness is examined between the two programs. Which of these two programs will provide the greatest gain? How much will that gain cost? Which program will reap the best results for the least amount of money? References MassPartners for Public Schools (2005, June 1). Facing reality: What happens when good schools Are labeled "failures?". In NCLB's AYP requirements (1/7). Retrieved April 12, 2009, FromMassPartners:http://www.resultsforamerica.org/calendar/files/exec_summaryAYP.pgf

This study is a systematic, objective investigation of educator empowerment, where the researcher explores the perspective of ABET educators. This study is presented against the backdrop of striking a balance between the conventional curriculum and Curriculum 2005 (OBE) because they exhibit a variety of challenges, anomalies and imbalances which led to the Revised National Curriculum Statements which will be implemented in 2006. It is informed by the fact that educators, if empowered, form an integral and central feature of changes in educational centres, especially in teaching adult learners to be able to assist their school-leaving children so as to improve provincial matric results, for example. The researcher focused on educators of ABET in Limpopo Province as the unit of analysis in this study. Interactive, cooperative, peer teaching, dialogic meditation, group and team teaching, constructivism and human resource development, reflective and multi-level approaches, are discussed with a particular focus on educator empowerment, including in-service training programmes. The researcher regards ”church settings” (her term) as inappropriate for effective teaching as they reduce educators to preachers and learners to congregants. This occurred as a result of the failure to recognise the importance of educator-learner, learner-learner and educator-educator interaction in the past curriculum. The study argues that the approaches mentioned are appropriate for this study. Educator empowerment is a lived-in and continuous process, monitoring and evaluating of in-service training to ensure quality. It was therefore necessary to develop a research design that would make it possible to enable educators to implement the new curriculum. Qualitative research is based on an in-depth inquiry which captures an educator's personal perspectives and experiences. Focus groups and in-depth interviews, which exemplify qualitative methods, were seen to be the best research tools in gathering the data for this study. The respondents, were UNISA ABET certificate students, and also professional educators at formal schools. They showed zeal in improving the educational situation. Their responses led to the model which has been developed in the thesis, culminating in uplifting the teaching profession and handling its multi-level led dynamic in an interactive and cooperative manner and reflecting in their experiences so that purposes of the National Qualifications Framework can be attained.
Educational Studies
D.Ed. (Didactics)

The study sought to investigate the role of Heads of Departments (HoDs) in the teaching of mathematics in primary schools of the Eastern Cape Province in the OR Tambo Inland District using a qualitative approach and a case study design in particular. Data was collected using both semi-structured and focus group interviews with eight purposively selected heads of departments in the district in six schools. Data was analysed using Colaizzi’s method of data analysis from which three themes emerged. The first one was that the current performance management system interfered with the roles and responsibilities of the HoDs in schools in their daily activities and in the organisation of their work. Second, the barriers in achieving learners’ good performance in mathematics interfered with the HoDs’ responsibilities to achieve good learner performance in the subject. Third, a weak support system and inadequate resources interfered with the learners’ performance in the subject. The results here indicate that HoDs for mathematics experience various obstacles, which affect subject teachers’ implementation to yield positive results, ultimately leading to poor teaching and learning of the subject. These include the admission of learners without the necessary foundations in mathematics which was viewed as an obstacle to learner performance. The study further suggested that the HoDs of mathematics should be capacitated on use of teaching aids, management and administration to improve learner performance in the subject.
Educational Management and Leadership
M. Ed. (Education Management)