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Patching Up the “Leaking Leadership Pipeline”: Fostering Mid-career Faculty Succession Management
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In this article, the authors examined the leadership pipeline for mid-career faculty in a consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges and found that most faculty members are in the pipeline, with the department chair position serving as an entry point.Abstract:
The research presented here contributes to research and practice focused on faculty leadership development by examining the leadership pipeline for mid-career faculty in a consortium of 13 liberal arts colleges. Research findings revealed that mid-career faculty members are in the leadership pipeline, with the department chair position serving as an entry point. However, leadership aspirations beyond the department chair position decline serving as a source of the leaking leadership pipeline. Differences were found by gender. Further, issues of lack of preparation for current and future leadership roles was connected to few mid-career faculty members aspiring to executive leadership positions. Implications for research and practice are discussed.read more
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Academic Leadership: Gatekeeping or Groundskeeping?
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the importance of cultivating leadership for progressive faculty and academic staff development through strategically tending the cultures and systems that one leads, in addition to tactical supervision of people.
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Специфика и результативность программ развития управленческих компетенций кадрового резерва
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A Mid-Career Faculty Agenda : A Review of Four Decades of Research and Practice
Perna L,Baker,Manning C,Austin A +3 more
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Leadership development programming in higher education: an exploration of perceptions of transformational leadership across gender and role types
TL;DR: This article explored correlations between transformational leadership and skills-approach leadership with an exploration of the role of gender within perceptions and found that as females achieve higher roles within the Land-Grant University System, the perception of their transformational behavior decreases while that of males increases.
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Psychological success: When the career is a calling
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Effective Succession Planning: Ensuring Leadership Continuity and Building Talent from Within
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The New Career Contract: Developing the Whole Person at Midlife and Beyond
Douglas T. Hall,Philip H. Mirvis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the role of the "career contract" in the development of older workers in organizational settings and argue that the contemporary high-speed work environment demands two key competencies (which they call "meta-skills", since they are skills for learning how to learn): identity development and heightened adaptability.