Servant Leadership: Responding the Challenges for Change in Higher Education

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10.2991/assehr.k.210212.043How to use a DOI?

Keywords

challenges, change, higher education, responding, servant leadership

Abstract

This study aims to describe servant leadership characteristics possessed by leaders of higher education institutions. This is important because higher education institutions as the center of excellence are required to answer the challenges for change demanded by the market, and servant leadership is the most suitable leadership characteristics to do so. The present study employed qualitative method. The primary data was collected through in-depth interview with the head of tarbiyah faculty of Sunan Gunung Djati State Islamic University, Bandung, as well as via observation and documentation. In addition, questionnaires were administered to 11 heads of programs at tarbiyah faculty of the university to collect secondary data. The findings of this study show that servant leadership should possess the characteristics of organizational stewardship, wisdom, service, humility, vision, persuasive mapping, altruistic, and emotional healing.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Annisa Lutfia
AU  - Udin Saefudin Sa’ud
AU  - Deden Saepudin
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/02/12
TI  - Servant Leadership: Responding the Challenges for Change in Higher Education
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Research of Educational Administration and Management (ICREAM 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 203
EP  - 206
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210212.043
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210212.043
ID  - Lutfia2021
ER  -