Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 2004. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 206 p. : ill. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 161-181).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--West Virginia University, 1999. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains viii, 125 p. Vita. Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 86-108).

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1972. / Title from title page screen, viewed Oct. 6, 2004. Dissertation Committee: Elwood Egelston (chair), J.H. McGrath, Mary K. Huser, Phebe Scott, David Wheeler. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-94). Also available in print.

Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1983. / Title from title page screen, viewed May 16, 2005. Dissertation Committee: Jack Hobbs (chair), John Brickell, Al Goldfard, Fred Mills,Max Rennels. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-107) and abstract. Also available in print.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brigham Young University Dept. of Educational Leadership and Foundations, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-111).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 121-129)

Thesis (Ed. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 10, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

The purpose of this study was to devise and test a rating scale for humanities division chairpersons in four community colleges. The study sought resolution of the following problems: determine humanities division faculty's perceptions of effective and ineffective characteristics of humanities division chairpersons; determine the validity and estimates of reliability for the Humanities Division Chairperson Scale (HDCRS); and to determine the relationship that existed between the responses of the faculty and selected demographic variables and division chairperson's self-evaluation.

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Department heads are viewed in this study as potential administrative agents of change for innovation in higher educational organizations. Due, however, to the low role power attributed to them by faculty, it was hypothesized that department heads’ manipulative orientation and social insight would be positively related to the role and personal power attributed them by faculty on power dimensions relevant to the change agent role. Statements to this effect were tested in a large land-grant university in the southeastern United States. Results of the study revealed that, in fact, department heads high on manipulative orientation are attributed more role and personal power on power scales relevant to the change agent role, than those low on this dimension. Results for social insight were confirmed on only one role power dimension. Interaction effects for the two variables of interest were explored and differed in results from the single variable trends. The strength of all relationships with respect to the amount of variance accounted for in the dependent variables by the independent variables, was low. / Ed. D.