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View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by The Research Repository @ WVU (West Virginia University) Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports 2011 Leadership Leadership Orientations Orientations and Conflict and Conflict Management Management Styles of Styles of Academic Deans Academic Deans in Masters in Masters DegrDegree Institutions ee Institutions Linda Kimencu West Virginia University Follow this and additional works at: https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd Recommended Citation Recommended Citation Kimencu, Linda, "Leadership Orientations and Conflict Management Styles of Academic Deans in Masters Degree Institutions" (2011). Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports. 3028. https://researchrepository.wvu.edu/etd/3028 This Dissertation is protected by copyright and/or related rights. It has been brought to you by the The Research Repository @ WVU with permission from the rights-holder(s). You are free to use this Dissertation in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you must obtain permission from the rights-holder(s) directly, unless additional rights are indicated by a Creative Commons license in the record and/ or on the work itself. This Dissertation has been accepted for inclusion in WVU Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Problem Reports collection by an authorized administrator of The Research Repository @ WVU. For more information, please contact researchrepository@mail.wvu.edu. Leadership Orientations and Conflict Management Styles of Academic Deans in Masters Degree Institutions Linda Kimencu A dissertation submitted to the College of Human Resources and Education at West Virginia University in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Doctor of Education in Educational Leadership Studies Paul Chapman,Ph.D.,Chair Ernest Goeres, Ph.D Reagan Curtis, Ph.D Dan Hursh, Ph.D Gerald Blakely,Ph.D Department of Educational Leadership Studies Morgantown, West Virginia 2011 Keywords: Leadership, Conflict management, Academic deans 2011 Linda Kimencu Abstract Leadership Orientations and Conflict Management Styles of Academic Deans in Masters Degree Institutions Linda Kimencu Previous research suggests that academic deans follow the human relations and structural perspectives in conflict management (Feltner & Goodsell, 1972). However, the position of an academic dean has been described to have undertones that are more political and social than hierarchical and technical. Hence, the current study evaluated the role of the academic dean in conflict management from a more inclusive perspective that involved the Bolman and Deal four- frame leadership theory: Structural, human resources, political and symbolic frames and Rahim Organizational Conflict Inventory (ROCI-II) instrument that evaluated the five dimensions of conflict management: Integrating, obliging, compromising, dominating, and avoiding. The respondents of the study included 93 academic deans heading Business and Education colleges in Public Masters Colleges and Universities-Larger programs (Carnegie Classification, 2010). The research found significant relationships between deans’ leadership frames, styles, and conflict management styles: Integrating conflict management style was positively related to all the four frames; contrary to the dominating conflict management style which was negatively related to the human resource frame. An education dean was 2.59 times more likely to have a political frame than a business dean; deans with less than five years of experience in the position of an academic dean were 3.23 times more likely to have a human resource frame than deans with more experience in the position; and finally, deans with more than ten years of experience in academia were more likely to use the compromising conflict management style than deans with less experience in academia with a medium effect size of .24. This knowledge can be used during deanship trainings and job placements. LEADERSHIP ORIENTATIONS AND CONFLICT iii Dedication I dedicate this dissertation to my husband Shadrack and our son Alan; and to my parents, George and Lucy. Thank you for your unconditional love and support through this major milestone in my life.
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