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Record W4414282390 · doi:10.1123/kr.2025-0032

Effective Leadership Approaches for Staff Success in Kinesiology Units

2025· article· en· W4414282390 on OpenAlexaff
Mary E. Waechter, Lara M. Duke, Robin Martin, Wendy Gracey, Nancy I. Williams

Bibliographic record

VenueKinesiology Review · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHigher Education and Employability
Canadian institutionsUniversity of the Fraser Valley
Fundersnot available
KeywordsKinesiologyTeamworkEmployee engagementProfessional developmentOrganizational cultureBridge (graph theory)Leadership studiesTeaching staff

Abstract

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This paper explores effective leadership approaches that promote staff success in kinesiology units in higher education. Recognizing the essential roles that professional staff play in supporting academic missions, it addresses the prevailing faculty/staff divide that often undermines collaboration and staff recognition. Through an examination of barriers to staff success, this paper highlights systemic issues such as legitimacy, power, and hierarchical dynamics that contribute to a culture of undervaluation. By employing leadership theories such as distributed leadership and fostering dialogue and collaborative practices, kinesiology leaders can bridge the gap between faculty and staff, ultimately enhancing organizational culture and effectiveness. The paper also provides examples of strategies from three different universities that illustrate the benefits of inclusive practices, professional development, and cross-functional teamwork in promoting staff engagement and enhancing student success. Finally, we present actual responses from several staff to key questions about how kinesiology leaders can promote staff success.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.653
Threshold uncertainty score0.471

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.217
GPT teacher head0.415
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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