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KMID : 0379220080280010197
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Journal of Korea Gerontological Society
2008 Volume.28 No. 1 p.197 ~ p.218
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A Study on the Meaning of Leadership among the Elderly Leaders at the Senior Centers
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Chung Soon-Dool
Lee Hyen-Joo
Kimm Go-Eun
Choi Yeo-Hee
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Abstract
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This study aimed at presenting the direction of development of program promoting leadership among the aged leaders at the senior centers, which is based on the idea of understanding the concept of leadership of Korean senior centers’ elderly leaders. For the purpose of this study, we applied both qualitative research method and quantitative method to complement it. 34 Elderly with 3 year experience as a leader participated in this survey and they had been joined development of leadership programmes activating senior centers. The outcome is analysed by Colaizzi’s phenomenological method and Colaizzi’s 6 steps specifically.
According to the research, we found out the 17 themes and 6 meaning units about the meaning of leadership among the senior centers’ aged leaders. The 6 meaning units are , , , , , . In addition, in the quantitative evaluation about the result, mean score of meaning units showed high average score more than 2.5 out of 3.0, it showed a credibility about the result of research. These outcomes are giving the insight of meaning of leadership at the point of view of senior leaders with their hands-on experience. With this result, we mentioned that we need to promote productive recreation programmes, human relations and communication skill training programmes and collaborative coordination skills at the level of community.Also, we suggest to assess the needs of leadership development among the elderly at senior centers and to take on the follow-up research into leadership scale development among Korean senior centers leaders.
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KEYWORD
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aged Leader at the senior centers, Leadership, method of focus group
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