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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
This paper is about ideas and views of professionals in the field of academic administrative leadership. It is concerned about general philosophical positions of faculty members and administrators concerning students' general education, information, intelligence, communication, and critical thinking abilities. In addition, it analyzes the main objectives of higher educational leadership models within the boundaries of democracy and multiculturacy in relationships with the interest of stakeholders. Within this domain of thinking, this paper is fully devoted to a comparative study of two types academic leaderships: (1) kakistocracy and (2) bureaucracy. Kakistocracy means "government by the worst administrators and/or management by the least able and disqualified figureheads." Within the notion of bureaucratic educational leadership, academic administrators' basic principle is to follow the blueprint of politico-educational ideology to keep in mind when observing students in varied programs and practices for a planned labor market change. Bureaucracy is defined the ideal or pure form of a large and complex organization. It is a formal system of organization and administration designed to ensure efficiency and effectiveness. Nevertheless, meritocracy negates both types of kakistocratic and bureaucratic academic leaderships.
KEYWORDS: Kakistocratic management systems, Bureaucratic management systems, Democracy, Multiculturacy, Political reflective democracy, Political multiculturacy
INTRODUCTION
Within academic boundaries of learning enhancement, colleges and universities play the most important role in advancing socio-economic development and growth of a nation. Also, the impact of the successful universityindustry competitive relationships in a country, and the fact that the country becomes internationally well-known through both academicians and businesspeople need to establish linkages among themselves and other governmental authorities in order to improve higher educational systems. One hope for increasing academic effectiveness is through application of scientific management in the internal operation of colleges and universities. With campus-wide networking systems, possibility of utilizing financial resources, educational information systems, and databases, particularly in the teaching and research processes, are certainly one method for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of all colleges and universities. Nevertheless, appointment of capable academic leaders in the higher institutional leadership positions is crucial, because colleges and universities need to be inspired and directed by thoughtful chancellors and campus presidents. The principle tenet of the qualitative academic services is that, educational leaders may possess the most effective roles when they are personally involved...