Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges

The research study reported in this dissertation examines the issues of leadership and management in the independent specialist college sector. It reports on the profile of current leaders, their tasks and activities and their self assessed development needs. It also focuses on the context of leader...

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Main Author: O'Brien, Kevin
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2006
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20800/
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description The research study reported in this dissertation examines the issues of leadership and management in the independent specialist college sector. It reports on the profile of current leaders, their tasks and activities and their self assessed development needs. It also focuses on the context of leadership within the public policy context and how this has appeared to promote a new model of leadership in the public sector, one which often promotes inspirational and heroic leadership styles as the model for successful organisations. This study examines the degree to which this characterisation is either realistic or desirable within the context of Independent specialist colleges. It compares the results from this part of the further education sector in England with wider policy context with a particular focus on how a culture of performativity effects the role of leadership in raising standards.
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spelling nottingham-208002018-03-14T13:37:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20800/ Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges O'Brien, Kevin The research study reported in this dissertation examines the issues of leadership and management in the independent specialist college sector. It reports on the profile of current leaders, their tasks and activities and their self assessed development needs. It also focuses on the context of leadership within the public policy context and how this has appeared to promote a new model of leadership in the public sector, one which often promotes inspirational and heroic leadership styles as the model for successful organisations. This study examines the degree to which this characterisation is either realistic or desirable within the context of Independent specialist colleges. It compares the results from this part of the further education sector in England with wider policy context with a particular focus on how a culture of performativity effects the role of leadership in raising standards. 2006 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20800/1/Kevin_Obrien_Dissertation_FINAL_DOCv3.pdf O'Brien, Kevin (2006) Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)] (Unpublished) leadership further education perfomativity performance
spellingShingle leadership
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O'Brien, Kevin
Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges
title Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges
title_full Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges
title_fullStr Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges
title_full_unstemmed Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges
title_short Transformation Postponed: Leadership Performance and Perfomativity. Issues of Leadership in Independent Specialist Colleges
title_sort transformation postponed: leadership performance and perfomativity. issues of leadership in independent specialist colleges
topic leadership
further education
perfomativity
performance
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/20800/