The Adaptive Leadership Competencies of College Deans in Selected Private Higher Education Institution

Abstract

Adaptive leadership is an approach intended to address and survive the prevailing challenges that confront leaders. In the Higher Education Institutions (HEI), the adaptive leadership competencies of College deans are greatly challenged on how to survive such complex and prevailing issues. The study is focused on the assessment of the adaptive leadership competencies of College deans in selected HEIs in the Philippines as they address the challenges in leading the self, leading the people, leading the community and leading the organization. With a quantitative-correlational and descriptive design, the study identified the prevailing educational challenges encountered by the HEI College deans, their adaptive responses in addressing the challenges, their level of adaptive leadership competencies and the differences that exist in the adaptive leadership competencies of HEI College deans in terms of leading the self, leading the people, leading the community and leading the organization. The results showed that the HEI College deans manifested high level of adaptive leadership competencies. A proposed Adaptive Leadership Model was crafted based from the results of the study to further sustain or enhance the practice of adaptive leadership of College deans in HEIs.