Global Leadership in a University Setting

Abstract

What is global leadership? How can we develop global leadership for a university? This study was conducted using thequalitative approach through in-depth interviews of eight selected top leaders in a selected university. Based on the in-depthinterviews, the findings discussed are as follows; Global leadership is related to diversity. Global leaders need to be developedwith additional competencies to lead a university and to be able to compete worldwide. Global leadership has to operate indiverse situations. This means that a global leader has to understand different cultures, different ideas and different beliefs. Soa global leader has to understand leading in diversity, which requires a different set of competencies. These include attitudes,skills and knowledge. This study is significant because it fills a gap in current knowledge regarding the experience that leadersperceived to be important in understanding and developing global leadership.DOI: 10.5901/mjss.2016.v7n2p353