Discuss about the Building Educational Leadership Capacity.
In the present days, the importance of leadership started to gain more importance and every organization such as business or universities are trying to apply the models of leadership for better productivity and growth. The main concept of the leadership model and strategies is that it would help in changing and managing the organizational structure. However, in the present days, the importance of the educational leadership has increased as it helps in guiding and influencing other educators in the organizational management setting (Carter, Alcott & Lattuca, 2016). The main role of the educational leader is to find various ways to improve the learning and teaching condition and the leader mainly focuses on the overall achievement of the organization. However, educational leaders apply different models and strategies of leaderships that would help in achieving the proper aims and objectives. The educational leadership theories and concepts are mainly derived from the principles of the business management (Robertson, 2016). For instance, in the United States, various leadership models are being adopted from management organization that would mainly fit in the educational organization (Chen & Rybak, 2017). It has been noted, that schools and universities are diverse to change, in order to deal with the right kind of educational setting, and theories must be changed and altered. The major aim of any leadership is to secure and sustain better improvement. It should be noted that during the past, educational leadership mainly dealt with heroic model where the main teacher used to demonstrate authority and control over the students. In the post educational leadership, most school organizations implemented the model of the school leadership that encourages teamwork participation and motivates the employees and other members to achieve the overall target. The report elucidates on the major factor such as analysing the problem in the organization, leadership models, and creativity with the help of leadership models and the solutions to the problem.
In has been noted that one of the famous university in Australia was facing some serious issues related to improper management and poor leadership strategies. As a result, the university was not being able to achieve its overall growth and productivity and as result most of the students and staffs left the particular organization and joined some other institution. The major issue in the particular university was related to poor leadership, as the previous manager who was in –charge of the overall management system turned out to be an inefficient leader who did not want to deal with conflict and risk. In case of any problem, the manager used to avoid it and apart from that instead of being empowering and encouraging other employees to work harder, he used to power trip and demonstrate control and authority over all other employees. The most important thing, the leader did not possess any leadership qualities that would help the organization in achieving its target (Hathaway, Rosen, Myers & Laws, 2017). Apart from that, the glass ceiling effect was a major issue within the organization as it did not allow the women to reach to higher rank. As a result, the organization was not being able to improve its growth and more it also lowered the employee satisfaction level as the employees and the staffs were not motivated towards their responsibilities. Apart from that, because of the ineffective management structure, there was no proper communication between the employees and the management, and team work was also not initiated. Apart from that, the major issue that rose in the organization was that the organization did not promote value diversity within the institution and as a result, employees coming from diverse background faced major challenges and issues (Simon, Christie, Heck, Graham & Call, 2018). Even the students within the universities also faced the same issues and for that majority of the employees and students left the organization and resulted in high turnover. As a result of the ineffective leadership, the institution lacked behind in terms of financial, growth and the number of staffs and therefore staffs are not interested in joining the organization. All these major issues turned up within the institution, because of the poor and inefficient leadership management. Therefore, the management decided to hire new manager and beside that new leadership models and strategies would be implemented in order to deal with these major issues.
Education leadership mainly focuses on encouraging and influencing other employees within the institution to work harder in order to achieve the organizational goal and objectives. Apart from that, educational leaders also focus on providing better training to the staffs, and also seek to find new ways to improve the overall educational system within the institution. Educational leaders are presents in all levels of the educational sector such as the elementary, secondary and the post secondary (Priest & Gass, 2017). It is important to note that, educational leader do not try to demonstrate authority over other employees and staffs, instead the leader would ensure the best possible ways to communicate with the employees. For instance, in case of issues like arising any types of conflict within the organization, effective educational leader will handle the situation more effectively, so that the conflict resolves completely. Sometimes, in order to deal with the situation more effectively, the theories of the educational leadership also adopts from the theories and the principles of the business management (Sethuraman & Suresh, 2014). For example, sometimes universities and institutions also adopt a transformational leadership theory that focuses on improving the performance and also initiates transparent communication within the institution. The main theory behind the educational leadership is that the concept of the leadership is mainly seen as an important factor in improving the effectiveness of the universities. Effective educational leadership helps in improving the performance of the universities and also focuses on the achievement of the learner. It has been stated that most of the theories of the educational leadership, the theories are based on certain elements that include capabilities, practices and the approaches (Hargett et al., 2017). The components of the theory are classified in to three most important categories such as characteristics, concepts and the activities. In case of characteristics, the educational leadership should possess certain leadership traits and behavioural traits and should have various leadership approaches to deal with the strategies. However, there are major challenges in dealing with the educational theories as there is a diversity in theories of leadership, and various institutions applies different theories to deal with issues.
In the context of the educational leadership there are four major types of the educational leadership that the universities and the institutions need to follow. The four types of the educational leadership models include authoritative, transformational, affilative, democratic, coaching and transactional leadership. In case of the Authoritative type of leadership, this type of leadership is applicable, when there is a need to change the structure of the organization or when a new vision or clear direction is needed within the institution (Robertson, 2016). With the help of the authoritative educational styles, the educational leadership would focus on the new change and to incorporate the changes within the organization, the leader needs to increase the level of confidence among the employees and the other students. For example, in case of promoting diversity within the organization, the leader needs to fill the team members with confidence and at the same time, need to train employees regarding the importance of value diversity. For instance, in authoritative leadership styles, “come with me styles” could be noticed among the leaders that initiate changes within the institution. However, authoritative leadership style considers being one of the strongest leadership styles that would help to lead the overall team towards the same direction (Parkay, Anctil & Hass, 2014). However, the major drawback in this kind of leadership model is that the employees might feel that they are less connected with their leader, as the leader with this style considers the only decision maker within the institution. In case of transformational leadership model, the educational leadership tends to collect all the best qualities from the different leadership styles and then try to implement all those qualities in their own particular style (Capper & Young, 2014). This leadership style mainly focuses to motivate the employees and this is only type of leadership models that collects all the best qualities and thus applies it within the organization. Transformational leadership mainly deals with resolving issues within the institutions that might occur between the employees, between the management and the employee, workplace issues and more. In the educational sector, transformational leadership model can be regarded as the bet of the models, as it has a positive impact on motivating the educators and the students, also shows positive growth within the universities, and more the most important thing with this leadership form is that the leader and the followers learn at the same time and the communication remains transparent in this leadership model (Bush & Glover, 2014).
Affiliative leadership model works best within the institution when any stressful situation arises, and the leader despite of such circumstances, try to motivate and encourage the employees to keep on working. The best quality of the affilative leadership is that it encourages employees to work more and thus helps in building important relationship. The main thing in this type of leadership is that “people come first” and thus it helps in creating peace and harmony within the organization. Apart from that, affiliative leader focus on that all the team members within the team are well connected to each other (Yammarino et al., 2015). For example, in an institution when the educator gets stressed in completing their teaching within the stipulated time, this leadership model work best as it helps in encouraging and motivating employees to work in stressful situation. In case of the democratic leadership model, the leader tends to make the last and the final decision, but in the case of the decision making process, the democratic leader also involves the other team member of the organization (Coetsee & Flood, 2017). This type of leadership model within the organization, encourage creativity, so that employees could come up with new and effective ideas that would be helpful for the organization. For example, in case of analyzing risk within the institution, employees are encouraged to develop new ideas with the help of the brainstorming method that would help the organization to work more effectively. Moreover, democratic leadership model tend to have high level of job satisfaction among the employees and also increases their productivity and performance. In this model, the leader tends to generous and in towards the other team members and always come forward to help other members whenever they required any help. By implementing the democratic form of leadership, collaborative type of environment could be seen within the organization. In case of the transactional leadership, the model mainly focuses on one particular strategy “give and take policy” that emphasizes on employers and the employees relationship (Watts, Nagy, Holbrook, Biro & Perera, 2017). It means that employers did to get their work complete and the employees do the work in return for money. In the educational organization, by applying this leadership model employees understand their work well and complete their job in the exchange for money. One of the most important types of leadership is the situational type of leadership that has been adopted by most of the universities. In situation leadership model, the leader or the follower of the organization tries to adjust their style according to the change situation and accordingly try to influence the employees to keep on working within the changed situation. The situational leadership model is considers as the best model within the educational leadership that provides positive impact within the organization (Antonakis & Day, 2017). It has also been proved that within this type of leadership model, universities and the institutions tend to resolve their issues in a better and strategic ways. According to Blanchard and Hersey, the situational leadership was explained by them through two concepts that include leadership and the developmental level. However, this leadership model is considers as the best of the leadership model within the educational theory that focus on resolving major issues within the organization (Aken & Berends, 2018).
In case of dealing with the major issues in the Australian university, the new manager decided to implement situational leadership model within the educational leadership theory in resolving the main issues, so that the institution could increase its growth and at the same time aim to achieve its overall target. By implying the situational leadership model, the manager tries to adjust his style of leadership as per the situation within the organization. As per the issues, in case of conflict in the universities between two employees, the manager by applying the leadership style tried to understand the situation and then adjust his style of leadership by matching the maturity level with others (Goleman, 2017). In situational leadership model the manager focuses on four main perspectives that include telling, selling, participating and delegating. As per the issues, there was no source of motivation among the educators, and for that reason there was high retention of employees within the institution. In order to resolve the situation, the situational leader changed his leadership style to transformational leadership style and through this tried to implement the transformational leadership model that tends to collect all the best possible qualities and applying those qualities the leader experienced a positive change within the organization (Obolensky, 2017). The implication of the changed leadership showed positive outcomes within the organization, as the leader introduced motivational rewards for the employees in the form of incentives and bonus. Moreover, in order to encourage and motivate the students, rewards system also introduced for students, such as students seeking the highest marks in the class will be rewarded with gifts and scholarships. The results showed that both the teachers and the students were motivated and thus everybody within the organization started working harder and thus this encouraged and motivated them (Roueche, Baker & Rose, 2014). It is important to note that, apart from the situational leadership model, the other model within the educational leadership theory was introduced was the democratic leadership model. The democratic style of leadership based on the mutual respect between the employee and the employers. As per the above issues discussed, there was an issue related to diversity within the organization, as employees coming from different background faced major challenges such as they were being isolated from the group, employees did not use to respect other’s tradition and culture (Bardach & Patashnik, 2015). The same issue happened with the students also, as students coming from different places often faced diversity problem within the university. In order to resolve this, the leader decided to implement the democratic form of leadership model beside the situational leadership model (Beerbohm, 2015). By implementing the democratic leadership model, the leader encouraged the employees in the decision making process and according took the final step. To reduce the problem of the diversity, the leader decided to promote value diversity through training of the major issue with the organization was the impact of the glass ceiling that did not allow the women to reach to the certain level in the management. Through democratic leadership model, the issues were discussed with the employees and accordingly to reduce the class ceiling effect, women were granted promotion to higher level in the management system. Apart from that, various activities were also introduced such as encouraging students for educational trip; educators were encouraged for team work. This encouraged positive outcome as through this leadership model, issues were resolved (Hendriks & Karsten, 2014). The institution was able to establish diversity based workplace and apart from that it provided a positive atmosphere to students as well as the teachers. Situational leadership model along with the democratic leadership model, proved beneficial for the university, as it helped in solving the issues within the organization and thus it initiated proper environment, encouraged employees to work actively and increased retention within the university.
Creativity in problem solving is a process that deals with creative ways in solving issues within the organization. It involves the employees with the organization that encourage employees to innovate ideas through brain storming method (Aken & Berends, 2018). In dealing with the issues within the institution, the manager beside the leadership theories adopted the creativity in problem solving process that mainly focuses on creativity strategies that include counterfactual thinking, creativity of constraints, brainstorming, challenging assumptions and more. For instance, in case of analyzing the risk within the institution, the manager within the organization encourages the employees to assess the risk through brainstorming methods (Carmeli et al., 2014). Through this, the organization able to assess the possible risk that is likely to occur within the organization and according minimise it with the help of risk management strategies.
Conclusion
From the above conclusion it could be concluded that issues within the organizations are inevitable and it could occur at any point of time. As per the assignment, in the educational institution, universities tend to apply the educational leadership theory in order to deal with the issues. It is important to note that, leadership strategies help in resolving issues within the organization and apart from that it provides success to the organization. Leadership models such as the situational leadership model and the democratic leadership model are considered to be the best within the educational theories. The leadership models helps in improving the organizational issues and that helps in improving the overall productivity within the organization. Apart from that, the leadership skills also helped in increasing the satisfaction level of the employees and thus also increase in employee retention. However, it is important to note that, apart from the leadership skills different educational institutions also focus on implementing the creativity in problem solving strategy by introducing strategies such as the brainstorming method, challenging assumptions and more.
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