The objective of this study was to collect data on how much time the department chairs in Quebec public colleges spend on different administrative roles, identify the time they would like to spend on these administrative roles, clarify their perception of their role of department chair, and establish the conflicts and ambiguities inherent in the position of department chair. / Department chairs spend 22 hours each week performing their different administrative roles but would like to increase the time to 25,4 hours per week in order to do a better job. Women chairs spend 23 hours and would like to spend more time working on the administrative roles of department chair than their male counterparts. This is also true of the professional sector in relation to the general sector. / The importance attached to the different administrative roles and the perception of these roles vary depending on whether the chair is a man or a woman, in the general or professional sector. / Department chairs have intrapersonal role conflicts. They are caught between what they do and what they would like to do to make their department function well. Though there are definite role conflicts, there are no significant ambiguities in the job.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.59251 |
| Date | January 1989 |
| Creators | Robert, Guy, 1908- |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Faculty of Education.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001067142, proquestno: AAIMM63440, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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