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100 _aGautam, M K.
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245 _aChallenges faced by Higher educational leadership
260 _aBihar Journal of Public Administration
300 _a17(1), Jan-June, 2020: p.71-76
520 _aThe primary purpose of the article is to assess the educational leaders, including faculty members, with ways of analysing the challenges they face, including the ethical tensions inherent in many of these challenges. On the basis of existing literature, some key challenges are identified as: providing a values-driven vision for the future; managing staff relationships; leading people; balancing personal and professional responsibilities; communicating effectively; leading continuous change; managing accountability and individual performance; and leading an ageing workforce. To professionally deals with these problem, educational leaders are advised to build cultures of shared and distributed leadership in their institutions. It is arguably an ethical responsibility of formal educational leaders to enable key stakeholders to share in the leadership responsibilities of their institutional community. Distributive leaders are particularly advised to assist faculty members to become more involved in key decisions relating to learning and teaching, and to regard themselves as key educational leaders in their institutions. There are strong recommendations that those in formal leadership positions must: share, and distributive leadership responsibilities by building the leadership capacity of all stakeholders; develop their leadership capabilities so as to be able to share these leadership responsibilities; become more capable as authentic human beings in order to become more capable as leaders; and be better. Thus, such educational leadership approaches are recommended as most appropriate and effective for educational leaders who are required to make ethical decisions in situations of tension and paradox. – Reproduced
650 _aHigher education, Leadership, Challenges, Faculty as leaders, Sharedleadership, Distributive-leadership
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773 _aBihar Journal of Public Administration
906 _aHIGHER EDUCATION
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