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Birnbaum, Robert – Review of Higher Education, 1986
The cognitive processes through which college presidents make inferences and learn may bias their judgments under uncertain conditions. Data indicate that these biases may cause them to overestimate their own effectiveness. Leadership is in part a social attribution used by leaders and by followers to explain unusual organizational processes.…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Bias, Cognitive Style, College Presidents
Birnbaum, Robert – 1998
This study reviewed the literature to trace the evolution and life cycles of seven management techniques related to higher education. The seven case studies involved analysis of a selected sample of periodical, monograph, and technical literature from 1960 to the present. The literature base on each management technique was reviewed in reference…
Descriptors: Benchmarking, Case Studies, College Administration, Higher Education