Leadership Annotated Bib
Culver, Mary K. (2009). Applying Servant Leadership in Today's Schools. Eye on Education:
Larchmont, NY. This text focuses on how an educator or member of educational administration can use methodologies first utilized in business practices to become a more effective leader. The text is broken down into scenarios wherein an administrator and/or a teacher had a behavioral or some other issue inside the classroom. The thesis then becomes that by reading the given scenarios, the reader can learn by the examples provided.
The book teaches the reader how to apply the scenarios in the text to real world situations. By doing so, the reader can then apply their own real life situations and try to glean lessons which can be equally applied to the rest of their educational experience.
Hannigan, John B. (2008). Leadership in Higher Education: an Investigation of Servant
Leadership as a Predictor of College Performance. Capella. This document is a discussion of research conducted by Capella University into the correlation between servant leadership and academic and community performance in higher education. During the research, teachers would divide students into groups of leaders and those who are led. Logically, what they were able to determine was that those who had more experience being trained in the technique of servant leadership, were better prepared to engage themselves in similar capacities as they continued on with their education.
This document is useful because it shows quantitative and qualitative research concerning servant leadership and its usefulness, as well as its effects. Leadership is something of a subjective topic and so obtaining quantified data can be very useful for researchers.
Harris, Alma. (2009). Distributed Leadership: Different Perspectives. Springer:...
Servant Leadership Applying Distributed Leadership and Servant Leadership In a Middle School Environment The effects of distributed and servant leadership within a middle school environment is best measured and made most relevant when student achievement scores, both in the short- and long-range, significantly exceed regional and national averages. Only by creating an agile, strong and highly effective distributed leadership plan for continual learning process and training improvement can any middle school hope to
Leadership, according to La Monica (1938), is when a person has authority that is recognized by others, and the person has followers/subordinates under them, who believe that the person will assist them in attaining certain goals (carrying out specific objectives for the followers). Furthermore, anyone that is willing to assist and help others could be referred to as a leader (p.8) Leaders see what others do not Most leaders have
Furthermore, when groups began people naturally turned to the group leader for direction and advice. It would be accurate to state that most of the relating was to the group leader at that point. However, by exercising linking behavior, I was able to get the group members to look to each other for understanding and help. Initially, I had to point out when people were saying things that would indicate
Leadership is a process that helps in directing and mobilizing people. It has for the past 100 years been a subject of many studies. These studies have come up with theories of the nature and exercise of leadership. Some of these theories include trait theories of leadership, theories of emergent leadership, leadership style theories, psychodynamic theories, and the path goal theories among others. The second section of this paper focuses
Leadership in the School Settings The concept of distributed leadership in the educational setting The application of distributed leadership in a middle school setting The benefits of distributed leadership Servant leadership In this paper, we present an analysis of servant leadership as well as distributed leadership as well as a description of how they can be used in the educational settings. The paper presents an elaborate discussion of how one might implement an initiative
Personal Leadership Platform A leadership platform is a complex concept. The questions expanded my thinking into not only what I want to be as a leader, but also why those convictions are important. As a new marketing manager, I think this is a valuable activity to examine my beliefs and values of what my leadership should represent. Purpose of Leadership The simple purpose of leadership is to lead a group with a common
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