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What is Complexity Leadership Theory

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Handbook of Research on Credential Innovations for Inclusive Pathways to Professions
A leadership framework describing the complementary and intertwined role of entrepreneurial, operational, and enabling leaders in overcoming common obstacles to change and innovation within organizations.
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The Complex Case of Noncredit Credential Innovation in Public Universities: An Organizational Leadership Perspective
Kai E. Degner (James Madison University, USA), Sarah K. MacDonald (James Madison University, USA), and Melissa M. Lubin (James Madison University, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-3820-3.ch004
Abstract
Four-year public institutions of higher education (IHEs) face increasing pressure to innovate with noncredit credentials. The chapter aims to develop leaders' mental models for navigating unique complexities associated with offering programs that do not award academic credit. First, a review of noncredit literature and organizational science principles explains that noncredit programming is often unaligned with IHE organizational culture and structure. Then, two metaphors for leaders' roles in overcoming barriers to innovation are introduced and critiqued: Buller's organic leadership concept and Christensen and Eyring's higher education DNA concept. Complexity leadership theory is next presented as a mental model to understand three complementary leader roles for fostering innovation with a complex organizational environment. Finally, the chapter's case features three vignettes from public IHE continuing education leaders that exemplify the complexities related to pursuing noncredit credential innovation. Strategies and discussion questions are included.
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Innoveadership: Marrying Strategic Leadership with Complexity
Complexity Leadership Theory is a framework for leadership that enables the learning, creative, and adaptive capacity of complex adaptive systems (CAS) in knowledge-producing organizations or organizational units. This framework seeks to foster CAS dynamics while at the same time enabling control structures appropriate for coordinating formal organizations and producing outcomes appropriate to the vision and mission of the system. It seeks to integrate complexity dynamics and bureaucracy, enabling and coordinating, exploration and exploitation, CAS and hierarchy, and informal emergence and top-down control. Complexity Leadership Theory suggests that the role of managers should not be limited to aligning worker preferences with centralized organizational goals. ( Uhl-Bien, Marion & McKelvey, 2007 ).
Published in Chapter: Innoveadership: Marrying Strategic Leadership with Complexity; From: Encyclopedia of Strategic Leadership and Management
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Enabling Transformational Complexity Leadership in Education
A leadership theory ( Uhl-Bien et al., 2007 ) grounded in complexity theory and about ways to enable interactive dynamics and emergence (learning, creativity, and adaptation) through informal and formal leadership functions and processes in complex adaptive systems.
Published in Chapter: Enabling Transformational Complexity Leadership in Education; From: Transformational Leadership Styles, Management Strategies, and Communication for Global Leaders
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