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    Assessment of the role of enneagramme approach in leadership fit for sustainable institutional development: a case of higher education institutions in Tanzania
    (University of Dar es Salaam, 2014) Toba, Richard Donacian
    Understanding and managing personality has become greatly important because they affect efficiency and employees ‘morale. Modern organizations still continue to witness a lot of leadership issues, which are failing organizations. Such issues include leaders failing to motivate as well as understand staff/subordinates, low productivity, increasing conflicts, excessive power to suppress queries, misuse of public funds, application of self-centred strategies, increased corruption, low attention to community problems, increasing violence, rising demonstrations and high turnover of excellent staff. Though it is known that strong leadership is required to modern organizations, yet many top executives hired today fail despite of the many efforts directed by various stakeholders to improve leadership. In the literature though a lot of studies have been conducted but they have not taken the opportunity to establish right processes to recruit right fit leaders to right positions. In this thesis, assessment of the role of enneagramme was studied to provide a framework that provides leadership fit to enhance institutional sustainability for continued growth of the institutions with focus to higher education. The study involved 12 universities with a total 140 respondents from the respective universities. The respondents who were randomly selected were interviewed using a survey questionnaire structure in Likert scale format. Both qualitative and quantitative data gathered from the survey were computed for interpretation using SPSS. In summary, the study revealed that recruitment of leadership-fit was a major challenge facing institutions of higher education as leadership-fit was a major problem in higher education institutions in Tanzania and this has continued to affect institutional growth and sustainability. The study suggested some examples of higher education institutional priority issues that could be considered when conducting institutional situational analysis for selecting position fit leaders for enhanced institutional growth and sustainability. Further, the study recommended that the proposed enneagramme based leadership fit framework to appoint best situational fit- leaders should be adopted as it may provide a long term solutions to the leadership problems faced in our modern institutions of higher education for many years. The study recommended some measures to be taken to rectify the situation. Some of the major recommendations include the following; need to review curricular and train staff on personality awareness and its effect to development; need to review curricular for secondary schools and include mandatory course on personality awareness to assist in identification of talents of young people as well as start grooming them from the right age for enhanced individual growth; need to develop and adopt procedures or processes to select leadership-fit based on issues emanating from institutional situation analysis for enhanced institutional growth and sustainability; need to develop and adopt procedures for selecting leadership-fit team with matching chemistry for enhanced institutional growth and sustainability and lastly the need for institutions to revisit and re-establish their societal vision as a basis to review relevancy of their institutional mission and vision as well as institutionalize means to recheck and monitor institutional growth and continuity through her stakeholders in a more in a sustainable manner.