The Fung Service Leadership Initiative in Hong Kong

Although there are leadership programs in the higher education sector, most of them are elitist leadership models and rigorous evaluation is not common. With reference to the emerging leadership needs in the service economy, the Victor and William Fung Foundation initiated a program to support the u...

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Published inInternational journal of child health and human development Vol. 14; no. 4; pp. 449 - 461
Main Authors Shek, Daniel TL, Yang, Zi
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hauppauge Nova Science Publishers, Inc 01.10.2021
Subjects
Collaboration
Conferences
Curriculum development
Education
Educational leadership
Elitism
Entrepreneurs
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
Higher education
Interactive learning
Professional education
Service industries
Social entrepreneurship
Social innovation
Students
Tourism
Values
Hong Kong
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Summary:Although there are leadership programs in the higher education sector, most of them are elitist leadership models and rigorous evaluation is not common. With reference to the emerging leadership needs in the service economy, the Victor and William Fung Foundation initiated a program to support the universities funded by the Hong Kong SAR Government to develop Service Leadership education programs and curricula materials. In this paper, we introduce the background and nature of the "Fung Service Leadership Initiative" and the "Hong Kong Institute of Service Leadership and Management (HKI-SLAM)." We also present the work done by the eight universities. With particular reference to The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, we examined the evaluation findings supporting the Service Leadership education initiative. Finally, the contributions of the Fung Service Leadership Initiative and future challenges are described.
ISSN:1939-5965
2374-085X