The Impact of Presidential Behaviors on Institutional Movement towards Greater Abundance in Community Colleges: An Exploratory Study.

Community Colleges;Leadership;Positive Organizational Scholarship;Presidential Behaviors;Positive Organizational Behavior;Leveraging;Education;Social Sciences;Education

Shults, Christopher WrayCameron, Kim S. ;

University of Michigan

关键词: Community Colleges;    Leadership;    Positive Organizational Scholarship;    Presidential Behaviors;    Positive Organizational Behavior;    Leveraging;    Education;    Social Sciences;    Education;   

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瑞士|英语

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【 摘 要 】

Globalization, technological change, and economic fluctuations have fundamentally altered business environments and are challenging traditional notions of effective management. With greater needs for adaptability and flexibility, organizations must reexamine problem solving strategies and look to strength building practices that recognize, develop, and take advantage of human capital. Community colleges, as institutions of higher education driven by a meta-mission, are impacted greatly by environmental changes and will benefit from having a community college specific approach to management influenced by Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) and Positive Organizational Behavior (POB), both of which are focused on appreciating organizational members and building institutional strengths. This multi-site case study was guided by assumptions emanating from the application of the POS and POB approaches within the community college context. More specifically, these approaches are focused on understanding and enhancing organizational strengths, building up intangible resources, realizing human potential, and working to achieve organizational wellness (superior institutional health) rather than just organizational health (absence of crisis). This qualitative study included four purposefully selected community colleges and data analysis revolved around the presidential behaviors associated with the colleges’ movement towards greater abundance (wellness). In addition to interviewing the president, his/her executive team, faculty, administrators, and staff, data was also gathered from observations and document analysis.To preserve the integrity of the data while providing theoretical generalizability, this study provides results chapters for each college as well as an overarching results chapter. While only one college can be classified as abundant based upon the abundance indicator survey returned by each college, each of the case sites provided a great deal of information on presidential behaviors associated with institutional movement towards abundance. The four presidential behaviors associated with institutional movement towards greater abundance include consciously and consistently engaging in positivity and optimism, treating the development of human potential as an organizational priority, ensuring congruence between the organization and the environment, and relishing the role of institutional sensemaker. The study also reveals some presidential behaviors associated with institutional movement away from abundance, provides insight into the abundance ;;push-pull” effect, and discusses implications for leadership preparation programs.