Role of Leadership with Equity, Integrity, Ethics, Humility, and Outstanding Culture in the Development of Engineering Institutions

Abstract

Engineering institutes have to continuously develop effective and industry-specific curricula, outstanding faculty who can facilitate human capital, handle modern resources to meet the disruptions, and follow excellent culture to meet the growth of industrial practices. Many Institutional Development Models (IDM) assume that the leaders practice equity and ethics and create a conducive culture for all academic activities but many institutes fail to meet the challenges of fast-growing technologies. The problems are due to ignoring the underlying principles like equity, ethics, and integrity in many key areas of administration. Around 1000 engineering colleges have been closed in India in the last ten years and many traditional branches of engineering don’t attract motivated students. Hence, this research has been undertaken to suggest the need to follow equity, ethics, and development culture in all institutional administrative activities. 25 underlying fundamental factors of development have been identified based on this research through the participation of 1152 engineering faculty members. An institutional development model has been created to incorporate these factors for the effective and rapid growth of the institutions and create needed human capital and knowledge capital. This institutional development model has been validated through a polytechnic college and found to be highly effective and efficient in transforming the institution and the faculty members to reach excellence. Further research studies at a larger scale are suggested for refining this model.