dc.contributor.author	Chauran, Alexandra
dc.coverage.spatial	Central and North America -- United States -- Georgia -- Valdosta	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2016-05-25T18:10:16Z
dc.date.available	2016-05-25T18:10:16Z
dc.date.issued	2016-05-23
dc.identifier.other	A5E4467A-9334-4ED6-BDD3-7DD27E76A826
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10428/2192
dc.description.abstract	Leadership styles refer to a leader's manner of motivating people, providing them with direction, and implementing plans. It was proposed that graduate students of Valdosta State University may show frequent innovative traits within their leadership styles of choice, in order to project the leadership style of future public administrators. The leadership characteristics were operationalized through survey questions, and the responses of 54 current and former graduate students of Valdosta State University working in public management were analyzed. A majority of graduate students reflected ambitious traits consistent with innovative leadership styles. Fewer graduate students felt satisfied with their jobs and fewer graduate students reflected myopic management traits; satisfaction and myopia were traits of traditional leadership styles. Leadership style innovation is a viable topic with potentially broad application. This dissertation could inspire further study about what other factors compel a leader to develop a new, innovative leadership style.	en_US
dc.description.tableofcontents	Chapter I. INTRODUCTION 1 \| Chapter II. LITERATURE REVIEW 12 \| Problem Statement and Overview 13 \| Leadership Theory and Public Managers 14 \| Overview of Traditional Leadership Styles 20 \| Authoritarian Leadership 20 \| Democratic Leadership 22 \| Transactional and Transformational Leadership 24 \| Overview of Potentially Innovative Leadership Styles 26 \| Servant Leadership 26 \| Adaptive Leadership 27 \| Facilitative Leadership 28 \| Affective and Whole Soul Leadership 28 \| Confounding Factors for Innovation 31 \| Gender 31 \| Regional Generalizability 33 \| Leaning on Traditional Leadership During a Crisis 34 \| Reliance on Traditional Leadership Styles to Resolve Conflict 35 \| How Self-Directed Staff can Help or Hinder Innovation 36 \| Ethics, Caring Leadership, Authenticity and Adherence to Mission as Stimulation to \| Innovate 37 \| Caring Leadership Styles 37 \| Authenticity as Necessary to Assess Innovation 39 \| Ethicality as Impetus to Innovate Leadership Style 39 \| Adherence to the Mission and Possible Inhibition of Innovation 41 \| Effective and Desirable Leadership Styles as the Potential Leading Edge of Innovation 42 \| Making Change in Leadership Styles 45 \| Summary 46 \| Chapter III. METHODOLOGY 48 \| Research Question 48 \| Hypotheses 49 \| Study Population and Data Source 52 \| Data Source 52 \| Study Population 53 \| Instrumentation 54 \| Study Measures 55 \| Analysis 55 \| Study Limitations 56 \| Chapter IV. RESULTS 57 \| Survey Respondent Population Description 57 \| Difference Between Each Innovative or Traditional Management Trait 58 \| Mode 61 \| Contingency Table Analysis 63 \| Chi-Square 68 \| Figures 70 \| Additional Findings 72 \| Bias Interpretive Statement ............72 \| Summary of Results 72 \| Chapter V. DISCUSSION 74 \| What is the Rationale for the Most Prevalent Leadership Style Traits? 76 \| Are These Results Generalizable? 77 \| Confounding Factors 78 \| Leaning on Traditional Leadership During a Crisis 79 \| What is the Recommendation for the Most Desirable Leadership Style? 80 \| What is an Implementation and Evaluation Plan? 80 \| Analysis of Questions Raised in the Literature 81 \| Case Study 86 \| Taking Knowledge Further and Re-Defining Leadership? 89 \| BIBLIOGRAPHY 91 \| APPENDIX A. Survey Instrument 99 \| APPENDIX B. VSU MPA/DPA Program Descriptions 107 \| APPENDIX C. VSU MPA/DPA Course Examples 110 \| APPENDIX D. Institutional Review Board Waiver 117 \|	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Dissertation	en_US
dc.subject	Public Administration	en_US
dc.title	Developing an Understanding of Public Management Leadership Style Innovation: Traits of Public Administration Graduate Students of Valdosta State University	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Political Science	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Peterson, James W.
dc.description.committee	Peterson, Bonnie E.
dc.description.committee	Swicord, Leigh R.
dc.description.degree	D.PA	en_US
dc.description.major	Public Administration	en_US