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Administrative Roles of Department Chairmen
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Smart, John C.; Elton, Charles F. – New Directions for Institutional Research, 1976
Variations in the role behaviors of chairmen are examined within the context of Biglan's model and suggestions are offered to enhance the selection, development, and evaluation of these academic administrators. (LBH)
Descriptors: Administrative Principles, Administrator Characteristics, Administrator Role, Administrator Selection
Variations in Goal Priorities of Academic Departments: A Test of Holland's Theory
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Smart, John C.; McLaughlin, Gerald W. – Research in Higher Education, 1974
Findings suggest that Holland's theory of vocational choice can assist in the interpretation of goal priorities within the academic community. Suggestions indicate how this theory might be employed by university administrators and in subsequent research on the administration of academic departments and the roles of their chairmen. (Editor/PG)
Descriptors: Administrative Policy, Career Choice, Departments, Educational Administration
The Environmental Identity Scale and Differentiation among Environmental Models in Holland's Theory.
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Thompson, Michael D.; Smart, John C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2001
A study of 587 full-time faculty examined teaching practices and interpersonal climate of different departments using Holland's Environmental Identity Scale. Results supported the scale's reliability and discriminant validity but did not support the assumption that differences among workers in environments with clear identity are more pronounced…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Job Skills, Measures (Individuals)
Environments as Reinforcer Systems in the Study of Job Satisfaction
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Smart, John C. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 1975
Examines differences in the degree to which 15 specific sources of job satisfaction were related to and predictive of the overall satisfaction of department chairmen in the six model environments proposed by Holland (1973). (Author)
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Administrators, Departments, Higher Education
Reward Structures of Academic Disciplines
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Smart, John C.; McLaughlin, Gerald W. – Research in Higher Education, 1978
Examined are the specific differences in the salary reward structures of eight clusters of academic disciplines included in Biglan's three-dimensional model of the academic profession. A total of 1,320 faculty at a large research university responded to the Faculty Activity Analysis questionnaire regarding the time spent in 11 categories of…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Departments, Higher Education, Intellectual Disciplines
"Accentuation Effects" of Dissimilar Academic Departments: An Application and Exploration of Holland's Theory.
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Smart, John C.; Feldman, Kenneth A. – Research in Higher Education, 1998
A longitudinal study, based on Holland's theory of occupational choice, found accentuation of initial group differences for artistic abilities in both male and female college students and for enterprising abilities of male students within academic subenvironments. Data support Holland's theory that students' initial selection of academic…
Descriptors: Career Choice, College Students, Comparative Analysis, Departments