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TYPES OF LEADERSHIP IN MANAGEMENT BOARDS OF UNIVERSITY CONSTITUENT UNITS AND THEIR IMPACT ON KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT

Knowledge management is the process of creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization in order to achieve organizational goals. Universities and its constituents as organizations are quite unique and because of that they require special approach in institutional management as well as in leadership that becomes even more important. The aim of this study was to identify types of leadership in management boards of university constituent units of Croatian universities and their impact on knowledge management within these institutions. This cross-sectional questionnaire study was conducted from June to September 2015 among 80 members of management boards of university constituents of two Croatian universities. The study showed that among all study participants there were 98.8% of participants who practiced one out of five possible leadership roles (21.5% edgy catalyser, 16.5% visionary motivator, 6.3% measured connector, 12.7% tenacious implementer and 43.0% thoughtful architect) while there was 1.2% of those who did not practice any leadership role during his/her work within the management board of university constituent. Unique characteristics of each previously mentioned leadership role strongly influences the knowledge management in Croatian universities. Taking into account that in different phases of knowledge management process, a leader performs different tasks it is necessary for him or her to adjust his/her individual leadership role to particular ongoing phase of this process. In order to be able to do that each member of university constituent management board needs additional education about leadership in general as well as about possible leadership roles and also needs to be aware of his/her dominant leadership role. Only by following all that, Croatian universities and its constituents will surely be prepared for all possible challenges and changes that can affect such organizations and be sure that constant and continuous growth and development can be certainly achieved.

leadership role ; knowledge management ; university ; leadership ; Croatia

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