Leadership, diversity and decision making

This working paper reports on leadership decision making in the UK further education (FE) sector drawing on the ‘Integrating diversity in leadership’ project funded by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL). The project was undertaken by a team from the University of Southampton and Oxford Brookes University. The focus on leadership decision making arises from a conviction that increasing staff and student diversity in the sector brings unprecedented challenges and implications for leading and managing learning, learners and the learning community (Lumby with Coleman, 2007). Among the wide ranging challenges is that of enabling groups and teams to deliver ‘quality decisions’ (Hoffberg and Korver, 2006:2). The paper investigates the extent to which the increasing diversity in colleges impacts on the decision making capacity of leadership teams and groups within the sector.

Excerpt from published introduction.

Papers from the ‘Integrating diversity in leadership’ project are indexed from TD/TNC 94.366 to TD/TNC 94.368.

This working paper reports on leadership decision making in the UK further education (FE) sector drawing on the ‘Integrating diversity in leadership’ project funded by the Centre for Excellence in Leadership (CEL). The project was undertaken by a team from the University of Southampton and Oxford Brookes University. The focus on leadership decision making arises from a conviction that increasing staff and student diversity in the sector brings unprecedented challenges and implications for leading and managing learning, learners and the learning community (Lumby with Coleman, 2007). ...  [+] Show more