An Overview of the Current State of Women’s Leadership in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia and a Proposal for Future Research Directions

Alsubaie, Azzah; Jones, Karen

doi:10.3390/admsci7040036

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“…Through our review of literature, a limited number of studies addressed female leadership issues in higher education with a greater focus on the challenges females face. This paper is in line with current work that encourages further broad and indepth empirical studies in the area of gender participation and succession planning (Alsubaie and Jones, 2017). Further investigation is required to evaluate the current practices of academic institutions in terms of talent management, career development, and growth for their employees.…”

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A systematic review of succession planning in higher education

Dahlan¹

2021

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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The purpose of this study is to synthesize the corpus of literature relating to succession planning in higher education, in particular, this paper explores the growth of succession planning practices in the higher education sector, which allows equal opportunity for genders to secure leadership positions in a unique fashion. Through the systematic review of 73 studies related to succession planning in higher education published in scholarly journals and dissertations from university repositories, this paper evidences the growth of empirical research on succession planning. Nonetheless, the current work hardly addresses dearth of succession planning for females in academia particularly in unique contexts that depict organizational, cultural, and personal nuances that heterogeneously submerge performances. Through a synthesis of the literature, this paper proposes areas of research to evaluate the hindrance factors in future empirical studies. The results indicate that further robust studies using action research design, quasi-experiment, and pilot interventions may be relevant to address the leadership crisis in higher education.

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Section: Future Research Areassupporting

confidence: 75%

A systematic review of succession planning in higher education

Dahlan¹

2021

Int. j. adv. appl. sci.

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“…Nonetheless, no significant association with the RSPS was observed among these demographic variables; therefore, the probability of bias remains low. Furthermore, the acquired study population reflects the decision-making capacity in a masculine society, where males in Saudi Arabia have more influence on family decisions [63].…”

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confidence: 99%

Factors Influencing Social Perception of Residential Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Saudi Arabia

Alrashoud

Tokimatsu

2019

Sustainability

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Saudi Arabia has taken major steps to shift from an oil-centered to more environmentally-focused economy. One approach made recently is to enable households to possess and generate electricity by using small-scale residential solar photovoltaic systems (RSPSs). However, the number of applications to install this technology in residences is significantly low. Social acceptance of solar energy is essential for a successful energy transition. Hence, the present study aims to examine factors that may potentially motivate or impede individuals from purchasing RSPSs based on the diffusion of innovations theory. A cross-sectional, web-based survey is conducted including 1498 participants from the five main regions of Saudi Arabia. Results revealed a good cognition level in relation to solar energy, where the majority (64–83%) of respondents are aware of the benefits. An overwhelming proportion of the respondents (97%) associate RSPSs with a significantly positive image, with no significant variation in the acceptance or rejection rates among the five areas covered by the survey (p = 0.1). The results also show high statistical significance for the differences between RSPS acceptors and rejecters in all innovation attributes (p < 0.001). However, the perception of relative advantage has a higher correlation with acceptance RSPSs. These perceived advantages were of rather long-term nonfinancial benefits, such as environmental protection against global warming and provision of unlimited power, rather than the revenue related to direct costs benefits. The study also revealed that the installation cost was the most significant barrier to adopting the RSPS, which can be a focus for RSPS dissemination policies.

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“…All other academic leadership positions (departments, colleges, associate deanships) are filled in internally with Saudi nationals and are approved by the Rector. As in most public Saudi universities operating a strict gender segregation (Abalkhail 2017;Alsubaie and Jones 2017), women occupying academic management roles in HU are confined to 'deputy' positions (usually deputy Dean in charge of the female section of a college or institute).…”

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Convergence and local orders in the dynamics of change in higher education: a perspective from Saudi Arabia

Lebeau

Alruwaili

2021

Policy Reviews in Higher Education

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The paper discusses the leadership and management challenges of a public university in Saudi Arabia from the perspective of academic managers. Based on a series of interviews at one of the regional universities established in the mid-2000s, the paper sheds light on one of those rarely investigated contexts where models of public management are arbitrarily patched on frameworks of institutional governance in the name of modernisation. The perspective of those tasked with implementing the modernisation agenda of the government within recently established universities is considered here, in an attempt to highlight the fortune of prescribed models of university governance and management in their confrontation with local social and cultural orders. A micro-level situationist perspective is adopted, drawing on the concept of local orders to identify local factors affecting the organisational capabilities and institutional status of a remote institution where the dominant cultural and social orders permeate workplaces more easily. Our unique perspective also reveals an increasingly diverse Saudi higher education landscape, and the challenges it poses to the government's onesize-fits-all model of governance for public universities.

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An Overview of the Current State of Women’s Leadership in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia and a Proposal for Future Research Directions

Cited by 42 publications

References 51 publications

A systematic review of succession planning in higher education

A systematic review of succession planning in higher education

Factors Influencing Social Perception of Residential Solar Photovoltaic Systems in Saudi Arabia

Convergence and local orders in the dynamics of change in higher education: a perspective from Saudi Arabia

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