Leadership style research spans many areas both inside and outside of education. This study sought to add to that research by looking at the leadership of technology directors in education. This population was targeted because gaps in student abilities versus performance needs have only expanded over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and the…

This dissertation details a qualitative case study regarding building-based leadership in schools with established 1:1 technology programs of 3 or more years in length. The researcher reviewed relevant literature. For the study, the researcher administered a screening survey to teachers in Southwestern Pennsylvania to identify 1:1 programs meeting…

The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate the impact that technology leaders have in secondary buildings. The present study explored the relationship between technology leaders' leadership style and the level of self-efficacy that classroom teachers possess as they utilize technology, as well as the relationship between leadership…

The purpose of this quantitative, correlational predictive study was to determine if, and to what extent, scoring of an academic supervisor's transformational, transactional, or passive avoidant leadership by faculty members of regionally accredited four-year, degree-granting educational institutions across the United States separately predicts…

This dissertation is a study of the relationship between Information Technology Governance (ITG), information security leadership, and strategic alignment within a healthcare organization. Strong organizational leadership and adherence to the process are vital to the formulation and management of performance and implementation of key directives.…

Due to major technological and social changes, world dynamics have undergone tremendous leadership style and technology transitions. The transformation of information technology tools usage (ITTU) created a new paradigm confronting leaders that can provide the right change of vision to effectively motivate, inspire, and transform others to work at…

The purpose of this study was to uncover Information Technology (IT) Project Managers' and IT Professionals' perceptions of effective leadership styles as they apply to project success. There have been prior studies dealing with the differences in perceptions between IT Functional Manager's leadership self-perception versus staff perceptions of…

The present study aims to examine whether principals' emotional intelligence (specifically, their ability to recognize emotions in others) makes them more effective transformational leaders, measured by the reframing of teachers' emotions. The study uses multisource data from principals and their teachers in 69 randomly sampled primary schools.…

This pioneering study discusses the thirty-five Bruneian technical & vocational institutions of top management (principals, deputy principals, senior masters, ICT coordinators and technical administrators) leadership style with the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The study uses a survey approach further to…

The research problem was the lack of knowledge about the effect of leadership style of the project champion on global information technology (IT) project outcomes, resulting in a high failure rate of IT projects accompanied by significant waste of resources. The purpose of this quantitative, nonexperimental study was to evaluate the relationship…

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…

The objective of this study is to elucidate new information on the possibility of leadership training through business computer-simulation gaming in a virtual working context. In the study, a business-simulation gaming session was organised for graduate students ("n"?=?26). The participants played the simulation game in virtual teams…

The purpose of this study was to relate the strength of Chief Information Officer (CIO) transformational leadership behaviors to 1 of 5 computing platform operating systems (OSs) that may be selected for a firm's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) business system. Research shows executive leader behaviors may promote innovation through the use of…

The study investigated whether students perceive their university instructors in a virtual learning environment as leaders. Referring to the full range leadership theory (FRLT), we examined the effects of transformational and passive leadership styles of university instructors on students' satisfaction and learning outcomes. Completed web-based…

The purpose of this quantitative study was to investigate diversity and inclusion from an age perspective among information technology (IT) professionals that were categorized as 4 different generations in the workforce today: Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. At the same time, this study sought to examine motivational…