ABSTRACT
Selznick in Leadership in Administration (1957) describes the task of a leader as ‘responsibility for defining the mission of the enterprise, for building the special values of the enterprise which reinforce the drives towards fulfilling the mission, and for developing a distinctive competence of the enterprise to carry out its mission’. The institutional leader is primarily an expert in the promotion and protection of values and has the major task of reconciling the internal strivings of the members of the institution and the pressures that are exerted on them by the external environment.
