Analysis: Impacts of Senior Leadership Management in Higher Education

This report analyzes the impacts of senior leadership management in higher education. It begins with an overview of the topic, defining senior leadership management and its importance. The aim and objectives are clearly stated, focusing on understanding the impact on student outcomes, exploring effective leadership types, and identifying challenges. The research questions guide the investigation, covering concepts, effective leadership types, significance, impact on student outcomes, and challenges. The methodology outlines the research philosophy (positivism), approach (deductive), choice (quantitative), data collection methods (primary and secondary), and sampling strategy (probability sampling of 20 students in UK higher education). The report aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of the role of senior leadership management in enhancing educational institutions and improving student success.

ANALYSIS THE IMPACTS OF
SENIOR LEADERSHIP
MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER
EDUCATION
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Contents
BACKGROUND OF THE DISSERTATION.................................................................................3
AIM AND OBJECTIVES...............................................................................................................3
RESEARCH QUESTIONS.............................................................................................................3
METHODOLOGY..........................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5
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BACKGROUND OF THE DISSERTATION
Leadership is the art of motivating and influencing a person or group of people to work
towards achieving a common goal. Management refers to the process of planning, organising,
decision making leading, motivating, controlling and monitoring the financial, human resource,
information and physical resources to reach goals effectively and efficiently (Aman, 2021).
Therefore, senior leadership management is designed to advance the intellectual and personal
development of individual person seeking career as educational and student services educators as
well as professional within higher education’s institutions. Senior leadership management has a
direct impact on higher education by improving student’s outcomes in positive manner.
AIM AND OBJECTIVES
Aim:
Main aim of this dissertation is “To analysis the major impacts of senior leadership management
within higher education.
Objectives
 To develop basic understanding regarding the senior leadership management.
 To explore effective senior leadership used within higher education.
 To determine the significance of senior leadership management in higher education.
 To Examine the impact of senior leadership management on student’s outcomes within
higher education.
 To analyses the challenges that would be face by higher education without the use of
senior leadership management.
 To recommended ways for overcoming the challenges associated with lack of senior
leadership management within higher education.
RESEARCH QUESTIONS
 What is the concept of senior leadership management in context of higher education?
 What are the effective types of senior leadership used within higher education?
 What is the significance of senior leadership management in higher education?
 What is the impact of senior leadership management on student’s outcomes within higher
education?
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 What are the major challenges that would be face by higher education without the use of
senior leadership management?
 What are the effective ways for overcoming the challenges associated with lack of senior
leadership management within higher education?
METHODOLOGY
 Methodology is the process of gathering information regarding the topic. There are
various types of methodologies in accordance to the existing topic, which will be
described as below:
 Research philosophy: Positivism is a chosen philosophy for this dissertation because it
facilitates in gathering and evaluating of quantitative data (Downing, Loock and Gravett,
2021).
 Research approach: Deductive approach will be used for evaluating quantitative
information about the topic.
 Research choice: Quantitative research will be selected for gathering numerical
information regarding the topic.
 Data collection: Primary and secondary both types of data collection methods will be
used for completing current dissertation in successful manner. For gathering primary
information, questionnaire will be applied by researcher. For gathering secondary
information, there are various sources such as articles, books etc. will be applied by
researcher for literature review (Peterson and Ramsay, 2021).
 Sampling: Probability sampling will be used for selecting 20 students studied within
higher education in education industry of UK.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aman, A., 2021. Sustainability of Impact Sourcing Initiatives in Higher Education for
Graduates’ Employability. Sustainability, 13(1), p.8.
Downing, K., Loock, P. J. and Gravett, S., 2021. The Impact of Higher Education Ranking
Systems on Universities. Routledge.
Peterson, C. and Ramsay, D., 2021. Reducing the gap! Reciprocal mentoring between Black,
Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) students and senior leaders at the University of
Gloucestershire. Perspectives: Policy and Practice in Higher Education, 25(1), pp.34-
39.
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