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Title
Social identity and the shift of student affairs staff to the academic unit
Description
This study explored the phenomenon of student affairs professionals working at Arizona State University who shifted from a student affairs unit to perform similar work in an academic unit. The conceptual framework for this exploration was social identity theory (Tajfel, 1974), which asserts that individuals develop a self-concept or image that derives, in part, from her/his membership in a group or groups. This qualitative study utilized in-person interviews to capture raw data from four purposeful participants, and a software package (NVivo 9) aided in the grounded theory approach to data analysis (Charmaz, 2006). The study found that participants placed a high value on the college-centric approach to their student affairs work, but they still identified as student affairs professionals working inside the academic unit. Findings are useful to: supervisors who have an interest in the professional development and personal well-being of staff; faculty and administrators of master's and doctoral degree programs designed to prepare student affairs professionals; associations that serve student affairs professionals; higher education leaders engaged in organizational change; and higher education administrators interested in the roles of individual biases and values in organizations. This study will interest student affairs professionals making the shift from a student affairs unit to an academic unit, and it will inform the researcher's own practice and career development through his investigation of his own organization.
Date Created
2012
Contributors
- Mader, Michael (Author)
- Mcintyre, Lisa R (Thesis advisor)
- Hesse, Marian (Committee member)
- Roen, Duane (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Educational leadership
- Educational Administration
- Organizational Behavior
- Academic Affairs
- College-centric
- Grounded theory
- Professional Identity
- Social Identity
- Student Affairs
- Student affairs services--Psychological aspects.
- Student affairs services
- Universities and colleges--Departments--Psychological aspects.
- Universities and colleges
- Universities and colleges--Professional staff--Psychology.
- Universities and colleges
Resource Type
Extent
vii, 137 p
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.14881
Statement of Responsibility
by Michael Mader
Description Source
Viewed on January 9, 2015
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2012
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-123)
Field of study: Educational leadership and policy studies
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