Resilient University Leaders in Contemporary Dynamic Environment: A Preventive Model for Derailed Presidencies

Abstract

Abstract------The environment in which institutions of higher learning are doing their businesses is getting dynamic and has obtained more consideration in the tertiary education and its resilient future research. Worldwide trends in tertiary education, as well as the changing external environment, put many challenges for the university leaders. To meet the demands of an increasingly dynamic and complex environment many university leaders have begun searching for ways to be resilient and receptive to these changes in order to stay competitive. This study offers university leaders a way to face external changes and disruptions in line to make their institutions perform better internationally. It investigated the role of self-efficacy and learning orientation on the performance of university leaders. It also proposed and tested the moderating effect of dynamic environment on the above-mentioned relationships. The research used the quantitative method and a population comprised 242 usable questionnaires that were collected from the leaders of public higher education institutions of Pakistan. The proposed structural equation model was evaluated with Partial Least Squares (PLS) techniques. Results showed support for the theoretical model that was considered. The findings suggest that self-efficacy and learning orientation is linked with performance in such a way that it nullified the moderating effect of dynamic environment. This investigation has importance for both savants and specialists in improving university leadership with a revolutionary approach; also this research helped to provide a conceptual anatomy to trigger future investigations and theory on strengthening university leadership.