Sustainable Leadership and Academic Excellence: Arab Culture Perspective

Leadership is a dynamic phenomenon due to the counties change of skills and abilities required for leaders in the 21 century. Leadership has various applications and dimensions depending on the culture aspects. The purpose of this study is to comprehensively investigate the valid components of sustainable leadership stemmed from Arab Culture. Selecting leaders is a complicated task in the Arab world due to the haphazardness surrounding this task. Utilizing the triangular model extracted from the previous studies that addressed leadership in general and the sustainable leadership model in Arab world. The study uses the literature review to develop its methodologies and uses the historical analysis to define the leadership model’s description. The results revealed that there are various dimensions of leadership, especially concerning the Arab’s organizational environment. The findings of this study also suggested new dimensions which assist in clarifying the issue of sustainable leadership in higher education. This research localizes sustainable leadership and paves the way to automate leaders' selection process with a guarantee of fairness among candidates. Furthermore, this study offers a model of sustainable leadership in higher education that incorporates conceptual domains to develop leadership for sustainability and academic excellence to work effectively in Arab culture.