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The Leadership of Korean Universities: A Case Study Concerning the Chosun University

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In the contemporary context of business and management, the leadership studies are considered as one of essential genre to allow sight of the holistic picture of the organizational performance. The general theory of leadership studies has given us a scope of elements involving the nature of leadership, and a body of research work contributed to elicit and deal with the factors significant to determine the effect of leadership, e.g, LMX (Leader and manager exchange). The participatory leadership and diversity or democracy in the workplace has been a key concept for the organizational theorists and practitioners. There are a scope of case studies about the leadership and organizational change, yet being relatively small in number, however, concerning the higher educational institutions, and least in the context of Korean universities. We see that Korea would no longer be a developing country. Its national education is fine and of quality setting aside the national context of particularities. One would be the election system of University chancellors, and the other would be a recent pressure from the government. It triggers a rationalization of poor quality of colleges and universities. In this mainstream, the local universities and their leadership can be generally located to interact with the local compassion and requirements. The paper, in this context, aims to describe the leadership from a former CU Chancellor H. J. Cheon, organization change s well as the evaluation of his leadership. I hopefully expect that the narratives can increase an awareness of leadership elements, its play within the educational institutions, and particularly about the local universities of Korea in distinct flavor.

Published in Science Journal of Business and Management (Volume 2, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.sjbm.20140202.12
Page(s) 50-66
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Keywords

School Leadership, Campus Democracy, Educational Institution, Colleges and Universities, Shared Leadership, Participatory Leadership, Leader and Manager Exchange (LMX)

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  • College of Law, Chosun University, Kwang-ju South Korea

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