Meeting the challenges of higher education administration: An analysis of leadership approach
- Bihar Journal of Public Administration
- 17(2), Jul-Dec, 2020: p.596-604
This research article is the second part of the previously published article entitled as “Challenges Faced by Higher Educational Leadership & It’s Solutions” which focused on leadership challenge in higher education. Present paper is an attempt to address the leadership challenges of higher education administration. Most of the challenges have been acknowledged by National Educational Policy-2020. Policy has pointed out that leadership position and head of the institution are academically sound but not well equipped with leadership capability with ability to manage complex situations (Ministry of Education, 2020). The present paper suggests three types of leadership approach to meet the challenges, namely, Shared leadership, Faculty members as leaders, Distributed leadership. The present paper does also highlight the ‘individualism’ and ‘idiosyncratic institutional practice’ as well as power and hierarchical structures that may be unable to ‘unfreeze’ their habitual ways of thinking, doing and organising. – Reproduced