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WORK RELATIONS AND TEAM WORK
IN A DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS
by
Gail F. Buck
_____________________________________________
A Dissertation Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
DOCTOR OF EDUCATION
May 2007
Copyright 2007 Gail F. Buck
Object Description
| Title | Work relations and team work in a division of Student Affairs |
| Author | Buck, Gail F. |
| Author email | gbuck@lmu.edu |
| Degree | Doctor of Education |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | Education (Leadership) |
| School | Rossier School of Education |
| Date defended/completed | 2005-07-25 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-01-25 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Hentschke, Guilbert C. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Wohlstetter, Priscilla Deal, Terry |
| Abstract | The typical structure of higher education has included an array of independently functioning departments and offices. In the last two decades, however, administrators and faculty have begun to recognize the need for a cultural change (Levine, 1997; Selden, 1988). This change includes the development of collaborative teams at all levels of a university (Bensimon & Neumann, 1993).; This study was designed to investigate employees in the Division of student affairs at a Southern California University. The purpose was to ascertain whether individual attributes: age, education, ethnicity, gender, income and religion (referred to as "obvious attributes") were characteristic of work place teams and if organizational design contributed to or detracted from team work. Additionally, social networks were investigated, exploring the theory of homophily "a preference to be with those who are similar" as it relates to team collaboration. The following questions were used to guide the study:1. To what extent are the attributes age, education, gender, income, ethnicity, and religion characteristic of workplace teams?2. How is team work hindered or enhanced as it relates to organizational design, office proximity, and office structure?; It was concluded that "obvious attributes" were not a defining factor of work place teams and that the Division's team work efforts lacked depth as typically advertising events between departments was labeled as collaborative team work.; This case study contributes to how informal intentions that are deemed important to the success of an organization can unfortunately be thwarted without some type of enforcement of policy. The study concludes with recommendations to implement a formal policy of team work and to re-think the physical lay out of the Division; avoiding the traditional separation of groups that is no longer conducive for a modern workplace. |
| Keyword | team work; collaboration; Student Affairs; homophily |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m231 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Buck, Gail F. |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Buck-20070125 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume51/etd-Buck-20070125.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@dots.usc.edu |
| Full text | WORK RELATIONS AND TEAM WORK IN A DIVISION OF STUDENT AFFAIRS by Gail F. Buck _____________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION May 2007 Copyright 2007 Gail F. Buck |
