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The Relationship Between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and Happiness Among Higher Educational Leaders
Title
The Relationship Between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and Happiness Among Higher Educational Leaders.
Creator
Sullivan, Jeannette S., Maslin-Ostrowski, Patricia, Florida Atlantic University, College of Education, Department of Educational Leadership and Research Methodology
Abstract/Description
The purpose of this research was to determine if a relationship exists between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and subjective states of well-being among higher educational leaders in state and community colleges in Florida. The underlying supposition was that the preference for what Douglas McGregor called Theory X or Theory Y assumptions, indicate intrinsic assumptions about human nature and are linked to subjective happiness. Quantitative data were collected through electronic administration...
Show moreThe purpose of this research was to determine if a relationship exists between McGregor’s Leadership Theory and subjective states of well-being among higher educational leaders in state and community colleges in Florida. The underlying supposition was that the preference for what Douglas McGregor called Theory X or Theory Y assumptions, indicate intrinsic assumptions about human nature and are linked to subjective happiness. Quantitative data were collected through electronic administration of two surveys and demographic questions to higher educational leaders at 28 state and community colleges in the State of Florida. These instruments measured levels of well-being through the PERMA-Profiler instrument and preferences for Theory X or Theory Y using the Theory X and Theory Y Managerial Assumptions Inventory. Multiple correlation and regression analyses were used to address the research questions. This study detected no relationship between well-being and happiness in this sample.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004831, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004831
Subject Headings
Personnel management., Educational leadership., Quality of work life., Work--Psychological aspects., Happiness., Job satisfaction.
Format
Document (PDF)
Working in the Biz: Material and Identity Processes of Bartending
Title
Working in the Biz: Material and Identity Processes of Bartending.
Creator
Frazer, Jacqueline M.E., Hough, Phillip A., Florida Atlantic University, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of Sociology
Abstract/Description
Bartending makes for an interesting case study in that it brings together research on emotional labor and tipped front-line service jobs, as well as the contemporary increase in precarity in work and precarity in life. This project explores the material and identity processes of bartending, examining how a precarious job with high expectations of emotional labor in-turn affects the occupational and personal identities of those employed in the industry. Overall three overarching themes were...
Show moreBartending makes for an interesting case study in that it brings together research on emotional labor and tipped front-line service jobs, as well as the contemporary increase in precarity in work and precarity in life. This project explores the material and identity processes of bartending, examining how a precarious job with high expectations of emotional labor in-turn affects the occupational and personal identities of those employed in the industry. Overall three overarching themes were identified: (1) When wages are outsourced to customers via tipping systems workers are exposed to particularly high emotional demands, rendering bartending a unique form of quid pro quo emotional labor. (2) Bartenders exist in a “default career” mode of employment that is stigmatized for being low-status low-skilled labor. (3) Performing emotional labor and managing stigma creates a divergence between bartender’s personal and occupational identities resulting in constant identity work on and off the job.
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Date Issued
2017
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004876, http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00004876
Subject Headings
Bartending--Psychological aspects., Bars (Drinking establishments)--Management., Alcoholic beverage industry--Social aspects., Identity (Psychology), Quality of work life., Work environment--Social aspects.
Format
Document (PDF)