Supervisory styles: a contingency framework

dc.contributor.authorBoehe, D.
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractWhile the contingent nature of doctoral supervision has been acknowledged, the literature on supervisory styles has yet to deliver a theory-based contingency framework. A contingency framework can assist supervisors and research students in identifying appropriate supervisory styles under varying circumstances. The conceptual study reported here develops a contingency framework of supervisory styles and thus identifies functional relationships between organisational, relationship and research task variables on the one hand, and the supervision process and product dimensions on the other. Drawing on the organisational behaviour stream of contingency theory and operating under the positivist paradigm, the framework assumes that no single supervisory style is effective in all situations. The paper contributes to the supervision and higher education literature by deriving theoretical propositions from the contingency framework and by providing practical guidelines for supervisors and research students.
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityDirk Michael Boehe
dc.identifier.citationStudies in Higher Education, 2014; 41(3):399-414
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/03075079.2014.927853
dc.identifier.issn0307-5079
dc.identifier.issn1470-174X
dc.identifier.orcidBoehe, D. [0000-0001-9816-2347]
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2440/108767
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis
dc.rights© 2014 Society for Research into Higher Education
dc.source.urihttps://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2014.927853
dc.subjectResearch supervision; supervisory styles; contingency theory; product and process focus in supervision; dilemmas in supervision
dc.titleSupervisory styles: a contingency framework
dc.typeJournal article
pubs.publication-statusPublished

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