The Future of Leadership in Public Universities: Is Shared Leadership the Answer?

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Pearce, Craig L.; Wood, Bob G.; Wassenaar, Christina L.
• 署名单位: University of South Alabama; University of South Alabama
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3352
• DOI: 10.1111/puar.12938
• 发表日期: 2018
• 页码: 640-644
• 关键词: MANAGEMENT TEAMS

摘要

Leadership of public universities has come under firefrom scandals, from funding, from students, from every direction. Top-down leadership of institutions of higher education has been described as a disease. Shared governancea mechanism of faculty representation in the leadership and decision-making processesa seeming alternative, has been described as a recipe for paralysis. In this article, the authors proffer shared leadership as a potential elixir for leading public institutions of higher learning, unleashing creative potential, focusing on pressing strategic imperatives, and enabling sustainable systems that leverage true talent to maximum effect. It is time to move beyond the moribund myth of top-down heroic leadership and beyond the bureaucratic, political quagmire of the current state of affairs in shared governance. Is shared leadership the answer?