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Barrantes-Guevara, Rita I. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Every year organizations invest billions of dollars in Information Technology (IT) projects; however, IT project success rates continue to be low. Several critical success factors are mentioned in the research literature, the leadership skills of the project manager being one of the most frequently cited in the recent project management…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Information Technology, Leadership, Program Administration
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Gilstrap, Donald L. – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2009
This article provides a historiographical analysis of major leadership and organizational development theories that have shaped our thinking about how we lead and administrate academic libraries. Drawing from behavioral, cognitive, systems, and complexity theories, this article discusses major theorists and research studies appearing over the past…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Organizational Development, Leadership, Behavior Theories
Leapley-Portscheller, Claudia Iris – ProQuest LLC, 2008
Principals are responsible for leading efforts to reach increasingly higher levels of student academic proficiency in schools associated with adequate yearly progress (AYP) requirements. The purpose of this quantitative, correlational study was to identify the degree to which perceptions of principal transformational, transactional, and…
Descriptors: Educational Improvement, Federal Programs, Leadership Qualities, Educational Indicators