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A Qualitative Inquiry Into a Community College Leadership Development Program

Kent, Nicholas Ryan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1695662241162219

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2023, Doctorate of Business Administration, Franklin University, Business Administration.
Leadership development programs offer the opportunity for an organization to invest within to identify and support the next generation of leaders. Community colleges are complex organizations whose survival depends on competent leaders who can address the organization's business and academic needs. The academia and departmental isolation culture inhibits the cross-departmental collaboration needed to develop a broad spectrum of leadership capabilities. While a wealth of scholarship is dedicated to the outcomes of leadership development programs in the business sector, there needs to be more insight into the impact a leadership development program can have at a community college. This study relied upon Kolb’s experiential learning theory to examine the development and distal outcomes of cross-departmental collaboration skills of the participants of a community college’s leadership development program. This theoretical framework was used to understand how participants of a leadership community college described the change in their leadership skills to improve cross-department work. A generic qualitative methodology was used for this study of 15 former community college leadership development program participants to understand how the program affected their cross-departmental collaboration skills before, during, and up to one year after the program. The qualitative coding of semi-structured interviews allowed the development of major themes embedded within the participants’ experiences. Key themes from this study include a significant increase in personal confidence, cross-departmental collaboration improvements to campus governance, and barriers to cross-departmental collaboration induced by the relationship between the community college and the leadership development program. Greater research into the relationship between the program and the organization is needed to understand further the cross-departmental collaboration potential of leadership development programs within community colleges.
Tim Reymann (Committee Chair)
Eric Hutchison (Committee Member)
Lori Salgado (Committee Member)
179 p.
Business Administration; Community Colleges; Higher Education; Management
Community College; Leadership Development; Higher Education; College; Management; Confidence; Collaboration

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  • Kent, N. R. (2023). A Qualitative Inquiry Into a Community College Leadership Development Program [Doctoral dissertation, Franklin University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1695662241162219

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kent, Nicholas. A Qualitative Inquiry Into a Community College Leadership Development Program. 2023. Franklin University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1695662241162219.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kent, Nicholas. "A Qualitative Inquiry Into a Community College Leadership Development Program." Doctoral dissertation, Franklin University, 2023. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=frank1695662241162219

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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