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Volume 18:9 September 2018
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From Leadership Competencies To Leaderful Practices At Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) –
Ph.D. Dissertation, Leeds Metropolitan University

Dr. Veedotma D. Koonjal

Abstract

The aim of this study is to develop leadership capacity in the tertiary education sector at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute (MGI) in Mauritius. The objectives related to this aim are to find out what are the leadership competencies for leaders and managers at the MGI, how these competencies are related to practice of leaders and to identify how leaderful practice can be developed in the Institute. In this connection, it was found essential to study the practice perspective of leadership. Consequently, two new approaches of leadership were seen to emerge namely the leadership-as-practice model and the leaderful practice model. With a view to enhance leadership at the MGI, it became necessary to find out how to develop the new model of leaderful practice at the Mahatma Gandhi Institute and to find out the factors that affect its development in the institute. In order to find out the answers to these questions, a collaborative action research was used. The research approach used was qualitative. My research philosophy was to interpret data ontologically in a subjective manner and the epistemology used was an interpretivist approach.

This thesis presents the results of a collaborative action research which was carried out with my four collaborators and who in turn have carried it out with their academic staff in their respective departments and schools. The methods that have been used to gather data are namely focus group discussions, observation using observation grid and interviews. The results showed that leaderful practice could be developed at the MGI by three main processes namely coaching, work based learning and action learning as duly supported in the literature review. The outcome also showed that there were various other factors which influenced the development of leaderful practice at the MGI and that these factors had to be taken into consideration and had to be dealt with seriously so as to enable leaderful practice to take place in the institute. This study has contributed to knowledge as it has enabled a tertiary education institution in Mauritius namely the MGI to create and to develop leaderful practice for the first time in its history. This would definitely enable all leaders in the higher education sector, not only at the MGI, but generally in Mauritius, to get an idea of this new concept and to learn how to improve their practices as leaders in the academic sector.

Keywords: Mauritius, leadership development, tertiary education level, leadership-as-practice model, leaderful practice model, impact of factors on leadership development, Mahatma Gandhi Institute

This is only the beginning part of the DISSERTATION. PLEASE CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE DISSERTATION IN PRINTER-FRIENDLY VERSION.

Dr. Veedotma D. Koonjal
Director
Mahatma Gandhi Institute
Moka
Mauritius
veedotmakoonjal@gmail.com

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