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.
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Title
- Social identity and the shift of student affairs staff to the academic unit
Contributors
- Mader, Michael (Author)
- Mcintyre, Lisa R (Thesis advisor)
- Hesse, Marian (Committee member)
- Roen, Duane (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2012
Subjects
- 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
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Note
- thesisPartial requirement for: Ed. D., Arizona State University, 2012
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (p. 113-123)
- Field of study: Educational leadership and policy studies
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Statement of Responsibility
by Michael Mader