dc.contributor.author	Chaffin, Megan McLeroy
dc.coverage.spatial	United States	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2023-05-23T19:47:08Z
dc.date.available	2023-05-23T19:47:08Z
dc.date.issued	2023-05-02
dc.identifier.other	1879471c-4a77-4f51-bce6-e53b82bdf409	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10428/6714
dc.description.abstract	This study aimed to determine how exemplary leadership practices contributed to a collaborative and empowering school culture. The study examined how Kouzes and Posner’s (2017) five practices of exemplary leadership impacted school culture during organizational change which involved the integration of new teachers into the established culture. Building upon prior research concerning organizational theory and culture (Bolman & Deal, 2013; Kouzes & Posner, 2017; Schein, 2010), the study provided evidence to assist in determining if such exemplary leadership practices were critical to ensuring school cultures merged effectively through acceptance, so as to build upon an already recognized positive and productive culture. This study incorporated an embedded single-case study design (Yin, 2018) with myself as the administrator and participant- researcher. It used observations and focus group interviews from teachers in an elementary school in the Southeastern portion of the United States. After thorough data analysis, findings suggested exemplary leadership practices do have an effect on school culture among teachers where a program merger happened; however, more deliberate attention should be made on continuous teacher involvement and feedback in the process. Keywords: leadership, organizational culture, school culture, mergers and acquisitions, change circumstances.	en_US
dc.format.extent	1 electronic record (.pdf), 209 pages, 1646807 bytes.	en_US
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.rights	This dissertation is protected by the Copyright Laws of the United States (Public Law 94-553, revised in 1976). Consistent with fair use as defined in the Copyright Laws, brief quotations from this material are allowed with proper acknowledgement. Use of the materials for financial gain with the author's expressed written permissions is not allowed.	en_US
dc.subject	Educational leadership	en_US
dc.subject	Leadership	en_US
dc.subject	Universities and colleges--Mergers	en_US
dc.subject	Teachers	en_US
dc.subject	Dissertations, Academic--United States	en_US
dc.title	Case Study of Exemplary Leadership Practices Impact on New Teacher Integration and School	en_US
dc.type	Dissertation	en_US
dc.contributor.department	Department of Curriculum, Leadership, and Technology of the Dewar College of Education and Human Services	en_US
dc.description.advisor	Bochenko, Michael J.
dc.description.committee	Suriel, Regina L.
dc.description.committee	Lairsey, John D.
dc.description.committee	Reichert, Elaine K.
dc.description.degree	Ed	en_US
dc.description.major	Education in Leadership	en_US