Academic Leadership
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• Sports Metaphors as a Motivational Leadership Strategy
  

  This article presents a framework for using sports metaphors as a motivational leadership strategy and explores how golf, surfing, the 100-yard dash, and baseball metaphors can be used as tools to achieve academic goals through emphasis on “team play” along with individual accountability, conditioning/training, and decision-making…all under the helm of motivational leadership. No matter the sport, “leadership metaphors create leadership reality by defining such important aspects as the leader’s role and the context in which leadership takes place” (Oberlechner and Mayer-Schonberger 2006, 161).

• Participative Management
  

  Participative management is a concept generally viewed as managing discretionary effort. That is, when employees are given choices and have a positive orientation toward the work place, they will act in a way that furthers their organization’s interests. These dynamics create engaged employees. An engaged employee is a person who is fully involved in, and enthusiastic about, his or her work. In turn, management is responsive in its treatment toward employees and demonstrates respect, so that employee contributions are valued and implemented.

  
  

• Michael Rivera
  
• The Corporatization of American Education: Analyzing the Relationship between Job Satisfaction and Productivity among University Professors