caa a22 4500 605520240 CHVBK 20210128100734.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11213-015-9340-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11213-015-9340-9 A Conceptual Model of Systems Thinking Leadership in Community Colleges [Elektronische Daten] [Anne Davis, Eric Dent, Deborah Wharff] The pluralistic and often competing goals of myriad constituents, the changing demographics of students, the uncertainty of funding, and the growing demands for accountability from stakeholders have increased the complexity of systems which community college leaders must manage. Emerging from the recent literature on community colleges is a call for new models of leadership in the context of leading in an increasingly uncertain and complex environment. Systems thinking offers a means to help leaders respond to these growing organizational complexities and move leadership from a traditional bureaucratic model to a more adaptive model. A systematic review of literature on systems thinking's application to organizational performance in higher education was bolstered with evidence from healthcare. Findings revealed three reoccurring ways in which leaders apply systems thinking processes for improving organizational performance. A conceptual model for systems thinking leadership is proposed in which the three processes, characterized as discovery, framing, and action, can be enacted either individually or sequentially for enhancing organizational performance. The model draws upon boundary critique, critical systems thinking, systemic intervention, total systems intervention, systems dynamics, soft systems methodology, complexity theory and complex adaptive systems, yet uses language more readily identifiable to community college practitioners. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2015 Systems thinking nationallicence Community colleges nationallicence Leadership nationallicence Higher education nationallicence Complexity nationallicence Complex adaptive systems nationallicence Davis Anne School of Graduate and Professional Studies, Stevenson University, 100 Campus Circle, 21117, Owings Mills, MD, USA aut Dent Eric Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, USA aut Wharff Deborah University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD, USA aut Systemic Practice and Action Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-08-01), 333-353 1094-429X 28:4<333 2015 28 11213 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-015-9340-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11213-015-9340-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Davis Anne School of Graduate and Professional Studies, Stevenson University, 100 Campus Circle, 21117, Owings Mills, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Dent Eric Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Wharff Deborah University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Systemic Practice and Action Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 28/4(2015-08-01), 333-353 1094-429X 28:4<333 2015 28 11213