ANALYZING IMPACTS OF PATIENCE AS ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP STYLE AT HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

Patience is always considered as one of human traits which pays in all walks of life. In the present globally challenging academic world this quality exercises more importance when the educational leadership is engaged in promoting knowledge and skills at the institutions of higher education. This article unfolds the opinions of academic leaders supervising academic management affairs at higher education institutions. The descriptive research was conducted on fifty education managers by administering an opinionnaire on the significance and impacts of patience as a leadership style which at times is forgotten and when forgotten impacts negatively not only on the working of the administrator but the faculty and students by generating academic and managerial issues. The results of the study show that for sustainable development the attention of the academic managers may be invited to improve the existing academic and co-academic state of affairs by demonstrating patience as administrative style so that conducive academic environment for promoting adult learning and academic sustainable development may be ensured.