Exploring the Spiritual Leadership Practices of Female Private College and University Presidents

Autor/in	Wagner, Tracy A.
Titel	Exploring the Spiritual Leadership Practices of Female Private College and University Presidents
Quelle	(2018), (298 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ph.D. Dissertation, Barry University
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-4380-2961-3
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Females; Women Administrators; College Presidents; Private Colleges; Religion; Leadership Qualities; Correlation; Altruism; Semi Structured Interviews; Intimacy; Resilience (Psychology); Interpersonal Relationship; Beliefs; Philosophy; Values + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Weibliches Geschlecht; Weibliche Führungskraft; College president; Hochschulpräsident; Privathochschule; Führungseigenschaft; Korrelation; Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Intimität; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Belief; Glaube; Philosophie; Wertbegriff
Abstract	While progress towards advancing women to private college and university presidencies now stands at 27.3% (Gagliardi, Espinosa, Turk, & Taylor, 2017), more needs to be done to encourage women to pursue these top leadership positions. This study's purpose was to more fully describe the relationship between the inner lives/spiritual practices of current female private college and university presidents and their leadership. This study may serve to explicate the connection hypothesized by Fry (2008) in his Spiritual Leadership Theory between inner life/spiritual practices of spiritual leaders and the spiritual leadership components of hope/faith, vision, and altruistic love. This study may also provide insight on how spiritual practices support successful presidencies. The research design was a transpersonal phenomenological study using intuitive inquiry methods as developed by Anderson (2011), with roots in Moustakas's (1990) heuristic research and feminist approaches. It features a five-cycle hermeneutical process. The methodology included purposively sampling current female college and university presidents for semi-structured interviews. Intuitive inquiry includes the discernment of preliminary lenses held by the researcher regarding the topic and revised lenses developed during the analysis of the data (Anderson, 2011). Preliminary lenses included "intimacy", "alignment", "immediacy", "being present", and "resilience". Of the preliminary lenses, all were included in the final presentation of lenses. One, "alignment", was unchanged in its definition, while "intimacy", "immediacy", "being present", and "resilience" were revised. Three new lenses emerged from the Cycle Four process: "authentic calling", "calling to members", and "formation". Linkages between the lenses were also identified and explained in Cycle Five. The Cycle Three findings identified eight overarching themes and 23 related categories of meaning in the data. Theoretical implications of the study confirm the hypothesized relationship in Fry's (2008) Spiritual Leadership Model between spiritual practices and altruistic love. Less evidence was apparent to support hypothesized connections between spiritual practices and hope/faith or hope/faith to vision. Spiritual practices did impact the development of vision for participants working to shift attention to firmer missional and financial footing. The relationships affecting followers' Spiritual Well-Being were also confirmed through the connections evidenced between vision and calling and between altruistic love and membership. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01