Investigating approaches for sustaining and building educational leadership
This research activity will examine more fully the leadership capabilities that are being shown and required at all levels of diverse VET enterprises among its managers, teachers, trainers and support staff. It will evaluate the current leadership development efforts being used in VET organisations to build enhanced capabilities; examine improved methods for sharing these developments across VET; and put forward strategies from within VET and from other sectors that can be used to enhance staff capability and organisational effectiveness.
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Team
Leader: Professor Victor Callan, University of Queensland. Team: Larry Smith, Berwyn Clayton, John Mitchell
Research questions
- How is educational leadership manifested within and across RTOs?
- To what extent and in what ways can RTOs ensure continuity of leadership and management?
Rationale
Leadership development at all levels of any organisation is sustained by the creation of core values, cultures, structures and human resource practices that allow staff to grow and to build new capabilities.
What VET institutions are doing well in terms of leadership behaviour and its development is only just being understood. Recent reports show that VET workforces especially at the managerial and supervisory levels require an extensive range of management and leadership capabilities, as well as professional and more generic skills, to meet the continued challenges for change, innovation and to build strong and sustainable enterprises for the future.
Participating RTOs will benefit from this research by:
- accessing new capability frameworks and supporting tools that allow them to better target their required management and leadership capabilities at various levels of staff
- becoming more self-reliant in terms of being able to target and design their own learning and development strategies to achieve these capabilities for various levels of staff
- obtaining assistance, through ideas in the final report, in determining from a broad range of human resource management and change management strategies, those strategies that best suit the size, context and location of the RTO to improve the ability of its workforce
Methodology
- Interviews with VET staff at levels of manager, teacher, trainer and support staff, examining how leadership development occurs within a specific structural, cultural and operational context
- In-depth investigations in at least 6 VET organisations across at least 3 states
Timeline
October 2005 - August 2006
Products
Taking part
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