LEADERSHIP COMPETENCIES FOR THE VOLATILE, UNCERTAIN, COMPLEX AND AMBIGUOUS (VUCA) ENVIRONMENT: CHALLENGES TO HIGHER EDUCATION

Abstract

Contemporary educational environments, especially higher education institutions face extreme turbulent environments characterized by high levels of challenges necessitated by economic, cultural, social volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA).Therefore, the need to explore contemporary leadership competencies for the volatile,uncertain,complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) challenges to higher education environment. The quantitative method, descriptive and correlational research design, and random sampling techniques were used to steer the study.The study findings showed that all the leadership competency dimensions teambuilding and collaboration had the highest overall mean score, whereas risk and conflict management got the lowest overall mean score.