Off-campus UNL users: To download campus access dissertations, please use the following link to log into our proxy server with your NU ID and password. When you are done browsing please remember to return to this page and log out.
Non-UNL users: Please talk to your librarian about requesting this dissertation through interlibrary loan.
THE PERCEIVED ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES OF ACADEMIC DEANS IN THE BIG EIGHT CONFERENCE UNIVERSITIES
Abstract
This study investigates the perceptions of the administrative roles of the academic dean. A comparison is drawn between the perceptions of selected academic deans in the Big Eight universities and the perceptions of their department chairpersons about the dean's administrative roles, role conflicts, the influence of institutional life on role performance, and job satisfaction. The ex post facto/causal-comparative research design was used, and it incorporated a questionnaire for data collection from a Sample of 246 academic deans/associate deans and department chairpersons in similar colleges in the eight universities. The research tool was developed following a review of relevant literature, and was based on the concepts of Role and Administrative Theories. The instrument was tested for validity and reliability; the Alpha score was .89 reliability coefficients. The Descriptive statistics--Percentages, Means and Standard Deviations, and the Inferential statistics--MANOVA, Bivariate ANOVA, Univariate ANOVA, a Pearson Product Moment Correlation analysis and a Fisher Z Transformation analysis were computed. The findings: (1) The null hypothesis 1 was rejected indicating a significant difference between how academic deans and their department chairpersons perceived the administrative roles of the academic dean. (2) The null hypothesis 3 was rejected indicating a significant relationship between the academic deans' and department chairpersons' perceptions of the dean's administrative roles and their perceptions of role conflicts. (3) The null hypotheses 2, 4, and 5 were accepted, indicating no significant difference between the perceptions of academic deans and the perceptions of their department chairpersons about role conflicts, the influence of institutional life on role performance, and job satisfaction. (4) A significant institutional difference existed only in the perceptions of all the variables computed together as a group, but no significant difference when each variable was computed. On the basis of the findings, a number of implications for administrative efficiency and effectiveness, and future research were discussed.
Subject Area
Higher education
Recommended Citation
HAYBLE-MOBOTE, THERESA SAFU, "THE PERCEIVED ADMINISTRATIVE ROLES OF ACADEMIC DEANS IN THE BIG EIGHT CONFERENCE UNIVERSITIES" (1984). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI8423790.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI8423790