THE LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE FOR ALL ADMINISTRATORS IN A RAPIDLY CHANGING ORGANIZATIONS: THE EXAMPLARY ROLE OF PROFESSOR EUGENE OKOYE NWADIALOR
In Achebe (2012), a popular Igbo proverb tells us that a man who does not know where the rain began to beat him cannot say where he dried his body. The rain that beat private universities and particularly Tansian University, Umunya inAnambra State started a decade ago which seemed to witness inadequate structural and administrative setup for quality teaching and learning environments. To say the least, it might have happened without proper consultation or representations since the institution was fully administered by its founder. The leadership ineffectiveness of the past administrators might have been the causes of the present leadership problems and underdevelopment in major areas like ineffective institutional restructuring, poor infrastructural provision and non-attainment of standard quality education in the university. A meaningful solution will necessitate the goodwill and determined efforts of all teaching and nonteaching personnel who bear the burden of the faith-based university and Nigeria's private universities history of underdevelopment in a democratic polity. The imperatives and desideratum for solutions to the unburdening of poor educational development in this university lies on the emergence of a transformational leadership of Professor Eugene Okoye Nwadialor which will be effectively extolled in this paper. This is the background for the choice of the topic of this chapter. Here, the paper will critically examine the challenges of leadership in a rapidly changing organizations, the strategic options and major roles played by Professor Eugene Okoye Nwadialor to fix the Tansian University of our dream.
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