Tackling Higher Education Adaptive Leadership Challenges

2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-8
Author(s):  
Jill Channing
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Leadership Challenges

scholarly journals Motivation sources and leadership styles among middle managers at a South African university

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Crispen Chipunza ◽  
Lerato L. Matsumunyane
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
South African ◽  
Middle Managers ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Education Sector ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
African Higher Education ◽  
South African Higher Education

Orientation: Leadership challenges have been evident in the South African higher education sector since 2004. Dealing with these challenges has focused more on external factors at top management level than on the possible contribution of intrinsic factors among other levels of institutional management.Research purpose: The purpose of the research was to determine the relationship between motivation sources and the leadership styles of middle managers in a South African higher education institution.Motivation for the study: The ongoing leadership challenges in the higher education sector in South Africa require not only strategies to deal with them at a national level but also academic efforts that focus on previously neglected areas, such as sources of leadership motivation.Research design, approach and method: The population of the study consisted of 75 middle managers, comprising both academic and non-academic staff. A final sample size of 40, conveniently selected, was achieved. A quantitative research approach was employed using the case study method.Main findings: Results showed a positive relationship between transformational leadership and intrinsic process motivation, self-concept internal motivation and goal internalisation motivation. A negative correlation was found between instrumental motivation and transactional leadership style.Practical and managerial implications: Motivation sources could be used to explain leadership behaviour and assist in the selection and development of specific leadership styles for the different managerial levels within academic institutions through motivation profiling. Sources of motivation may provide one of many pieces of information to consider when making recruitment and leadership development decisions within institution.Contribution or value added: This is the first study of its kind to investigate the two variables within a higher education context. The study makes an invaluable contribution to the broadening of existing knowledge and a scholarly understanding of leadership motivation and behaviour.

scholarly journals Emergency department preparation for COVID-19: accelerated care units

2020 ◽  
Vol 37 (7) ◽  
pp. 402-406 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Noble ◽  
Nida Felicija Degesys ◽  
Elizabeth Kwan ◽  
Edward Grom ◽  
Cortlyn Brown ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Department ◽  
San Francisco ◽  
Negative Pressure ◽  
Potential Model ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Protective Equipment ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Novel Coronavirus ◽  
Rapid Deployment

By 11 February 2020 when the WHO named the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and the disease it causes (COVID-19), it was evident that the virus was spreading rapidly outside of China. Although San Francisco did not confirm its first locally transmitted cases until the first week of March, our ED and health system began preparing for a potential COVID-19 surge in late February 2020.In this manuscript, we detail how the above responses were instrumental in the rapid deployment of two military-grade negative-pressure medical tents, named accelerated care units (ACU). We describe engagement of our workforce, logistics of creating new care areas, ensuring safety through personal protective equipment access and conservation, and the adaptive leadership challenges that this process posed.We know of no other comprehensive examples of how EDs have prepared for COVID-19 in the peer-reviewed literature. Many other EDs both in and outside of California have requested access to the details of how we operationalised our ACUs to facilitate their own planning. This demonstrates the urgent need to disseminate this information to our colleagues. Below we describe the process of developing and launching our ACUs as a potential model for other EDs around the country.

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
K.K. Zhampeissova ◽  
◽  
B.А. Kiyassova ◽  
A.S. Kosshygulova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Training System ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The article reveals the requirements for a modern specialist, who should be characterized by the properties and qualities of adaptive leadership. The reasons are noted for the improper formation of this phenomenon of future specialists in higher educational institutions of Kazakhstan. As one of the most important, it is considered - the unavailability of a higher education teacher to carry out activities to educate future specialists of the properties and qualities of adaptive leadership. Attention is drawn to the fact that the development of adaptive leadership qualities in the context of the traditional informational subject (linear) training system is impossible. Attention is focused on the fact that, in the conditions of the challenges of the XXI century, being an adaptive leader is the norm for a modern specialist. The author reveals the role and significance of the synergetic approach in the formation of adaptive leadership among students.

scholarly journals Top Leaders Attributes in Malaysian Higher Education Institutions

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 56-71
Author(s):  
Mafuzah Mohamad Salina Daud ◽  
Mohd Zainal Munshid Harun
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Economic Development ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Leadership Attributes ◽  
Strategic Vision ◽  
Intense Competition ◽  
Klang Valley

Transforming Malaysian Higher Education Institutions to an exceptional level has become one of the main challenges in pursuing strategic vision and the ability to strengthen our Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) that could become a medium to the country economic development as well as facing global intense competition. Specifically, the role of HEIs leader is needed to transform their institution to a new paradigm. Thus HEIs leader have to furnish and equip themselves with a high leadership attributes. The main objective of this study is to investigate top leader attributes in Malaysian HEIs and it effect toward university innovation. The questionnaires were distributed to managers from various faculties and departments’ of public HEIs in Klang Valley. The findings shows, leading changes attributes of leaders is the most significantly related and asserted as the most difficult leadership challenges faced by the leader in enhancing and encouraging the spirit of innovation in HEIs.

scholarly journals Leadership challenges of urban institutions of higher learning, which serve a predominantly diverse and multi-cultural student population

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Student Population ◽  
Higher Learning ◽  
Exploratory Research ◽  
Leadership Challenges ◽  
Institutions Of Higher Learning

The topic of this research article examines the unique leadership challenges confronted by staff and faculty of higher education institutions that serve a predominantly diverse and multi-cultural student population in urban areas of the United States. Urban colleges and universities are found in the large metropolitan cities of the United States where students are from the area, as well as domestic and international. The study isolates five areas of concern that raise leadership challenges for these institutions of higher learning. Specific areas of challenge are the rising cost of tuition, retention, student preparedness for higher education, technology, and gainful employment. The exploratory research within this study was conducted primarily in the New York tri-state area. It is qualitative in nature and conclusions are based on research and observations of subjects directly affiliated with these institutions.

scholarly journals METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF FUTURE SPECIALISTS ADAPTIVE LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-14
Author(s):  
K.K. Zhampeissova ◽  
◽  
B. Kiyassova ◽  
A.S. Kosshygulova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Leadership Development ◽  
Training System ◽  
Adaptive Leadership ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Leadership Qualities ◽  
Higher Educational Institutions ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
Higher Educational ◽  
Methodological Aspects

The article reveals the requirements for a modern specialist, who should be characterized by the properties and qualities of adaptive leadership. The reasons are noted for the improper formation of this phenomenon of future specialists in higher educational institutions of Kazakhstan. As one of the most important, it is considered - the unavailability of a higher education teacher to carry out activities to educate future specialists of the properties and qualities of adaptive leadership. Attention is drawn to the fact that the development of adaptive leadership qualities in the context of the traditional informational subject (linear) training system is impossible. Attention is focused on the fact that, in the conditions of the challenges of the XXI century, being an adaptive leader is the norm for a modern specialist. The author reveals the role and significance of the synergetic approach in the formation of adaptive leadership among students.

scholarly journals A Lesson Of Lost Political Capital In Public Higher Education: Leadership Challenges In A Time Of Needed Organizational Change

2012 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Hilton ◽  
Rod Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Organizational Change ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
College President ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Political Capital ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Campus Community ◽  
Organizational Model ◽  
Leadership Challenges

All higher education institutions are struggling with a rapidly changing market and financial landscape. Here is a management-centered analysis of what happened when a college president, recognizing the need to make a radical adaptation to those changes, tried moving a campus community to a new organizational model, without collegial consensus, and too quickly. The result was that the president lost political capital and the college underwent a change in leadership. Yet the need for a new management model still remains.

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