Leadership Practices and Their Role in White-Collar Crimes in Autonomous Higher Education Institutions
AUTHORS
Thanikachalam Vedhathiri,Former Professor, Centre for International Affairs, National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research, Chennai, India
ABSTRACT
In this 21st century, most world-class universities have excellent educational leaders who follow ethics, equity, integrity, and culture to develop excellent global universities. Unfortunately, many developing countries have recruited toxic leaders who indulge in white-collar crimes and destroy outstanding faculty teams. This research focuses on the growth of toxic leaders and their discrete decisions in recruiting, fixing basic pay, not authorizing exceptional faculty members to bid on global projects, not sharing the project gains, and facilitating the growth of coteries. Thirty cases have been considered from five autonomous institutions from one state. After analyzing the root causes, crimes were identified using toxic leadership theory, routine activity theory, and critical race theory. After conducting a SWOT analysis, appropriate inferences are drawn. Methods to eliminate white-collar crimes have been identified.
KEYWORDS
White-colar crime, Toxic leadership theory, Routine activity theory, Critical race theory, Strategies to eradicate white collar crime in engineering education
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