Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities

Özaslan, Gökhan; Gümüş, Sedat; Bellibaş, Mehmet Şükrü; GÜMÜŞ, EMİNE

Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities

Mehmet Şükrü BELLİBAŞ, (Adiyaman University, Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Turkey,)

Gökhan ÖZASLAN, (Necmettin Erbakan University, Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Turkey,)

Emine GÜMÜŞ, (Necmettin Erbakan University, Eregli Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Turkey,)

Sedat GÜMÜŞ (Necmettin Erbakan University, Ahmet Keleşoğlu Faculty of Education, Department of Educational Sciences, Turkey,)

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Yıl: 2016 Cilt: 41 Sayı: 184 Sayfa Aralığı: 91 - 103 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 29-07-2022

Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities

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While the educational leadership literature is replete with studies focusing on leadership practices at K-12 level, higher education institutions all over the world do not receive their share from this intense scholarly interest. This is the case with Turkish higher education institutions too. Starting from this point of view, the purpose of this study is to examine department chairs’ needs in performing academic leadership. To this end, the study was designed as a qualitative inquiry. In order to reveal a range of leadership experiences, maximum variation sampling was employed to address the diversity of chairs’ academic leadership experiences. Accordingly, semi-structured interviews were conducted with the study group of 16 department chairs who varied in terms of their province, university type (public and foundation), teaching field, gender, and years of service in chairship position. Findings emerged in the phase of content analysis revealed that needs of department chairs can be categorized under the themes of: (a) More autonomy for decisionmaking in staff recruitment, monetary, and curricular issues (b) Additional academic and clerical personnel, and (c) Training for leadership and orientation for administrative duties

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APA	Bellibaş M, Özaslan G, GÜMÜŞ E, Gümüş S (2016). Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities. Eğitim ve Bilim, 41(184), 91 - 103.
Chicago	Bellibaş Mehmet Şükrü,Özaslan Gökhan,GÜMÜŞ EMİNE,Gümüş Sedat Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities. Eğitim ve Bilim 41, no.184 (2016): 91 - 103.
MLA	Bellibaş Mehmet Şükrü,Özaslan Gökhan,GÜMÜŞ EMİNE,Gümüş Sedat Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities. Eğitim ve Bilim, vol.41, no.184, 2016, ss.91 - 103.
AMA	Bellibaş M,Özaslan G,GÜMÜŞ E,Gümüş S Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities. Eğitim ve Bilim. 2016; 41(184): 91 - 103.
Vancouver	Bellibaş M,Özaslan G,GÜMÜŞ E,Gümüş S Examining Department Chairs’ Needs in Performing Academic Leadership in Turkish Universities. Eğitim ve Bilim. 2016; 41(184): 91 - 103.
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