The perceptions of Texas local vocational directors regarding Mintzberg's managerial model.Dugger, III.
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1982.
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| Online Access: | ProQuest, Abstract Link to OAKTrust Copy Link to ProQuest Copy |
| Abstract: | The problem addressed by this study was to determine whether the Mintzberg managerial behavior model is applicable to the job of the local vocational director. The data were gathered from a sample of 224 Texas local vocational directors, of which 189 (84.4%) responded to the survey instrument. Respondents rated the importance to the vocational directors' job of 70 tasks identified by the results of a literature review and a pilot study. Ratings of the frequency of performance of the tasks were also gathered. A factor analysis of the importance ratings yielded six identifiable factors for the 70 vocational director tasks and two second order factors which grouped the six factors. The Mintzberg model consisted of ten roles which were used to group the tasks and three headings which were used to group the roles. Factor congruence coefficients were employed to investigate factor-role congruences. The results indicated that two roles were congruent with one factor and an additional role was congruent with a second factor. The coefficients also suggested that there exists a moderate degree of correlation between 27 of the 36 possible factor and role comparisons. A comparison of the number of tasks classified by the Mintzberg headings and the second order factors indicated that wide discrepancies existed. Based on the comparisons, it was concluded that the Mintzberg model has only limited applicability to the job of the local vocational director. Ancillary analyses provided rankings for both mean importance ratings and mean frequency ratings for the 70 tasks. Spearman correlation coefficients indicated significant negative correlations existed between the frequency and importance ratings for 47 of the 70 tasks. These correlations suggest that as the ratings of frequency of performance increase the ratings for importance also increase for 67 percent of the tasks. Recommendations for further research were postulated. These included: (1) identification of vocational director tasks through the use of observation and interviews, (2) development of a rating system including both the importance and frequency dimensions, (3) exploration of the relationship between the performance of individual vocational director tasks and overall performance as a vocational director, (4) quantification of each of the six factors identified in this study. |
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| Item Description: | Typescript (photocopy). Vita. "Major subject: Industrial Education." |
| Physical Description: | x, 127 leaves ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (leaves 75-77). |