Driving Innovation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Adaptive Leadership for Cultural Change

Abstract

This chapter explores the role and impact of adaptive thinking and transformational leadership in developing and leading an enabling culture that aligns with a school’s vision and mission. This chapter will also probe the varying dimensions that enable or inhibit a school culture and the tools needed to shape and maintain it including the challenges posed in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In this chapter, examples of adaptive challenges, data-driven instructions, and effective use of technology, will be referred to as one dimension of a culture that shows alignment or lack of it with the school’s vision and mission, the role and impact of transformative adaptive leadership on school’s overall culture, especially in the UAE, and MENA region. Finally, this chapter will examine the impact of adaptive and distributed leadership in leading a cultural change.

Citation

Halabi, N. (2024), "Driving Innovation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Adaptive Leadership for Cultural Change", Baroudi, S. and Lytras, M.D. (Ed.) Transformative Leadership and Sustainable Innovation in Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Emerald Studies in Higher Education, Innovation and Technology), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 11-25. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-536-120241002