Date of Award

Spring 2007

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Public Administration (MPA)

Abstract

The decisions organizations make in regard to the selection of their professional leadership is among their most crucial as those positions set the tone of the staff relationship to its customers, to each other and the quality of the work the organization. This is especially crucial as an organization transitions from its founding/early operations leaders to the next group of sustaining leaders of mature organizations. California's regional centers have come out its founding and early operational phases and into their maturity as organizations. The senior professional leaders who founded the regional centers and guided them through the establishment years are retiring. This leaves a talent gap at the top of the organizations. This study will discuss how regional center staff have been prepared to assume senior leadership roles in the past and effective ways to do so in the future. The study will include discussing use of training programs in an individual regional center, multiple regional centers, or the Association for Regional Center Agencies, which represents all regional centers in California as the lobbying and support agency for them. This study may lead to the development of a training program that will prepare regional center staff to assume senior leadership roles in regional centers.

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