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Spring 2021

Ma, Angela

All groups have prototypes, “fuzzy sets” of attributes that define the group’s identity. These prototypes are dynamic, creating opportunities for leaders to promote versions of the group prototype that fit their vision for this group’s future. Previous studies have suggested leaders can use...

Spring 2024

Ouyang, Yunzhu

Leadership is a crucial force in shaping group identity and initiating collective changes within groups, particularly during times of uncertainty. The use of affirmations in rhetoric to convey a clear group identity that reduces uncertain feelings can garner more support for leaders when group...

Fall 2021

McNeill, Christopher Ian

This dissertation is an interpretive document on the Leadership Quality Standard policy that was released in Alberta, Canada in 2018. In it, I examine the tensions, contradictions, and possibilities that emerge in this policy document. Using the hermeneutic philosophy of Hans Georg Gadamer I hope...

Spring 2023

Disele-Pitso, Lebogang

This dissertation reflects on a research process that explores how performance can foster women’s leadership in Botswana. The process began with the question, “where are the women,” which in turn grew out of curiosity about what happens to women between the time they leave the classroom and the...

Spring 2021

Schultz, Christie

In the wake and work of present-day social movements, on our campuses and beyond, there is growing recognition that, as academics, we ought to care—not just for our research and our students, but also for each other and our communities more broadly. Indeed, it has been and remains critical that...

Fall 2022

Kincaid, Kathryn

Group members prefer leaders who are prototypical of their group and adopt a democratic (vs. autocratic) leadership style (Hogg & van Knippenberg, 2003; Lippitt and White, 1943). However, feelings of uncertainty can weaken these preferences and increase support for non-prototypical and autocratic...