Leadership in Higher Education During COVID-19 in Australia: A Critical Reflection

Nilufa Khanom ()
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Nilufa Khanom: Victoria University Melbourne

Chapter Chapter 16 in Innovation, Leadership and Governance in Higher Education, 2023, pp 297-314 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract COVID-19 has emerged as a devastating and unexpected global public health crisis in the last 2 years. The Australian higher education system was very hard hit by this pandemic. This chapter aims to evaluate the higher education institutions (HEIs) leaders’ responses during COVID-19 and to explore the leadership styles in Australian HEIs using stakeholder theory to explain what they did. Qualitative secondary data were collected from publicly available documents such as news articles, and the data were processed using thematic analysis. It emerges that Australian HEIs leaders made quick decisions, but the impacts of the decisions were mixed; subsequently, these HEIs leaders are not always ‘responsible leaders’. This is the first research on responsible leadership that investigates the roles played by HEIs leaders during COVID-19 through the lens of the stakeholder theory. It will improve our theoretical understanding and the practical aspects of responsible leadership.

Keywords: Responsible leadership; Stakeholder theory; Higher education; COVID-19; Australia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-7299-7_16

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