The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to examine the leadership styles and characteristics of leadership of 11 female presidents in the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology system. The administrators’ perceptions of successful leadership, desirable outcomes of institutional leadership, and improvements resulting from perceived successful leadership styles that guided each participant’s work as a technical college president were examined. Using the research questions guiding this study, data were collected from individual, in-depth interviews with each female, technical college president. The analysis of the interviews identified the leadership styles of democratic, situational and participative as being the most common among the female presidents. Also, the leadership characteristics of communication and vision were identified as being the most common leadership characteristics. These results may benefit women in evaluating effective leadership styles and characteristics that were displayed by successful technical college presidents.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ETSU/oai:dc.etsu.edu:etd-5426 |
| Date | 01 August 2021 |
| Creators | Kea-Carroll, Kelli |
| Publisher | Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University |
| Source Sets | East Tennessee State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | Electronic Theses and Dissertations |
| Rights | Copyright by the authors. |
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