Valerie A. Storey

Educational Administration Quarterly, 1979-2003: An Analysis of Types of Work, Methods of Investigation, and Influences:

Purpose: The objective of this article is to provide an analysis of articles in Education Administration Quarterly (EAQ) over the 25-year period 1979-2003. Approach: The approach is document analysis. Findings: Information is presented on four key themes: (a) types of articles published; (b) methodologies employed; (c) topic areas emphasized; and (d) books and articles exerting considerable influence. Implications: Based on publication patterns, questions are framed that could help shape editorial policy in EAQ. In addition, areas of work that merit greater attention are noted.

Critical Friends: Supporting a Small, Private University Face the Challenges of Crafting an Innovative Scholar-Practitioner Doctorate

This chapter describes how a small, private, liberal arts institution in southern United States dealt with challenges and opportunities when planning, crafting, and implementing an innovative scholar practitioner doctoral degree. The discussion consists of the experiences in developing an Ed.D. program in partnership with the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED), and the importance of the role played by our critical friends (Duquesne University, Vanderbilt University, University of Connecticut, University of Houston, University of Southern California, University of Vermont). The chapter’s framework is derived from three developmental phases: Initiation, Induction, and Implementation that the Ross College of Education (RCOE) identified as a member of CPED.

Leaders, critical friends, and the education community

Purpose – Professional practice doctorate programs’ purpose is to prepare practitioners in the industry to lead and solve current and future complex problems with the application of research. The authors aim to argue that leadership, critical friends, and engagement of the education community together have the potential to assist in enhancing professional practice doctorate graduates’ outcomes.Design/methodology/approach – From three case studies of redesign and implementations of Ed. D. programs associated with the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate, the authors discuss how distributed leadership and implementation of contemporary motivational concepts within a university empowers and incentivizes faculty to develop and enhance effectiveness of professional practice doctorates.Findings – The concept of critical friends, those who are not invested in a specific situation, can provide objective and fresh insight and is applied as a reform strategy. Engaging the industry, that is, the education com...

Values in hospital leadership: a case study of a highly performing health system

In the last decade, the economics of healthcare have undergone a dramatic change. Hospital leadership has the challenge of balancing concurrent and competing claims for resources. Executive hospital leadership has the ability to affect the type and quality of healthcare services provided to constituents through their organisational decision-making; however, relatively little is known regarding the values of executive hospital leadership. This study identifies the individual values of those in executive leadership roles in a healthcare system and ascertains how an individuals value system develops. It also examines whether or not values guide decision-making, and if these values are in conflict or compromised. In general, the results indicate that executive healthcare leadership possesses values that can be articulated and prioritised, and that a value-compromise is necessary at some point in their career. Moreover, individual and organisational values are evidenced as being congruent, benefiting the organisational leadership, culture and efficiency.

Virtuous leaders and virtuous organisations: healthcare and higher education

This paper focuses on the nature of virtuous leadership and the relationship to a virtuous organisation in two service professions in one county community. Specifically, we examine whether the virtuousness of service organisations (healthcare and higher education) derives directly from its executive management team. We selected education and healthcare leaders due to a perceived similarity in both education, complexity, governance as well as a higher degree of specialisation in their fields. Thirty three hospital and educational leaders were surveyed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and statistical results indicate significant gender differences regarding observable indicators of virtuousness. In addition, those earning more income appear to view organisations as being less virtuous such that it is not so observable through language, strategy, or behaviour.

Educational leadership – perceptions and determinants of moral and ethical behaviour

In the last decade, the economics of education has undergone a dramatic change. School leadership now has the challenge of balancing concurrent and competing voices at the federal, state and local levels. School leaders have the ability to affect the type and quality of instruction delivered in the classroom through their organisational decision making. This is a follow-up article to Storey et al. (2008). It reports on a study which identifies the individual values of service leaders in an education and a healthcare system and ascertains how an individuals value system develops. This study utilises survey data from 16 high school leaders enrolled in a graduate programme in educational leadership, at a private, southern, Ivy League university in the USA. Questions focus on ascertaining, in general, whether or not these leaders perceive themselves as being ethical and moral and the determinants of this. Results indicate that most leaders consider themselves to be ethical and moral and that religion, spirituality and religious/philosophical education in addition to family are the main determinants.