Degree Name
EdD (Doctor of Education)
Program
Educational Leadership
Date of Award
8-2021
Committee Chair or Co-Chairs
James H. Lampley
Committee Members
Jill Channing, Hal Knight
Abstract
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.
Document Type
Dissertation - unrestricted
Recommended Citation
Kea-Carroll, Kelli, "Leadership Qualities of Female Presidents Serving the Tennessee Colleges of Applied Technology System" (2021). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Paper 3921. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/3921
Copyright
Copyright by the authors.