The Role of Leadership in Institution Building Administrator does not exist for its own sake or just for the sake of existing. It is and must be committed to some roles/responsibilities if it has to accomplish the very reason of its being. In order to perform his role and accomplishment his task, the administrator should know what has to be done and how it is to be done. He also needs to know that it is a joint effort of people doing nay task. In particular, administrators have role involvement with regards to their responsibility as administrator of a certain institution. Primarily administrators is responsible in planning, organizing, controlling coordinating, supervising, evaluating, providing leadership, recording and reporting and also promoting close relationship between the school and the community. a. Administrator as Leader Administrator has a key role in leadership as well as initiating change in the institution and the community. Being administrator, you have an important role in leading the institution resources into improvement and success. Leadership is very important in any institution. For a leader to effective and efficient he must need to posses skills such as conceptual, technical and human skills as well as exercising democratic leadership in performing his role in an institution. A conceptual skill deals with individual’s ability to apply information and aspects into practice that’s why administration must be knowledgeable. On the other hand, technical skills means individual ability to apply variety of techniques to achieve goals such as skills in planning, decision making, communication and management of the institution; and human skills which deals with individual’s ability to work effectively as a group member. Remember that a good leader is also a good follower. b. Administrator as and Agent of Change Administrator has a role in initiating change or an agent of change in the institution and community. Administrator serves as mediator, bridging the gap between the institution and the community or the environment. Promoting close relationship between the school and the community is an important function of the administrator. School program is the biggest factor in building good school-community relations. He needs to make a program, which aims to benefit his immediate clientele, who are the people in the community and the community itself. Remember that institution exist inside the environment (system) which means that the environment greatly influence the plans, goals and programs of any institution inspite of the existing boundaries. Any institution that has no exchange channel with the environment is closed. This needs a two way process wherein environment contributes students, materials, energy, information and cultural values; and institution returns educated persons, information’s, and entertainment’s. c. Administrator as Planner Administrator acts as planner in the institution simply because one of their fundamental functions or responsibilities is a careful planning. He is responsible in formulating as well as selecting the best courses of action in order to achieve the educational goals. Good and careful planning directs them in deciding the first course of action or rather provides you the bird’s eye view of the whole plan. It is in the thorough and careful planning that the administrator could anticipate the future and so the problems that the institution might encounter and maybe able to think of the advance solutions. d. Administrator as Organizer Being an administrator you need to have skills in organizing those complex task of bringing together the necessary human resources along the required physical plant and equipment/materials into an operating unit. He has a role in leading and building cooperative efforts within the human elements affecting the institution, such as the faculty, administrator, and the community as well as setting the tone for openness and trust for both the formal and informal personal relationship that whenever institution is confronted with problems they can easily interact to facilitate solutions of the problems. e. Administrator as Director Administrator is responsible in carrying out all educational programs and deciding who shall carry out the plans; determines the subjects to be included in each course; provides for physical equipment necessary to carry out the work and also issuing orders, hold conferences and supervise activities. There are lots of things to consider in this task such as assessing the needs of his school, teachers, his pupils and those people in the community and evolve an educational program that very much suited to them. f. Administrator as Controller Administrator supervises his people under him according to their set goals. He need to see if there are problem and errors so that he could intervene and help them to correct it. g. Administrator as Coordinator Proper coordination done by the administrator is needed to overcome the limitations of planning and organizing as well as the inherent limitations of personnel. This bridges the gap between the people, resources and the product itself. It is the responsibility of the administrator to coordinate all the programs and activities of the school in the community and make all these things in harmony, which will lead to the success of any programs. He must develop an interacting and cooperative working relationship in the whole system. He has a role in maintaining and translating the curriculum into concrete learning, experiences and improves the instruction program. Often in the past and in the present, institutions were criticized for the irrelevance of their curricula, the poor quality graduates, and the mediocre level of instruction obtaining within the classroom. This is because the administrator is lacking the actual leadership performance. h. Administrator as Supervisor The administrator has a role/involvement in making the educational program effective. He needs careful supervision studies of those methods and techniques to improve the teaching and learning process. i. Administrator as Evaluator Evaluation is needed in order to ascertain if the institution and the community have achieved the educational goals. It is necessary because this evaluation reveals the weaknesses and strengths of the whole program. Administrator has a role of establishing and maintaining effective “feedback” circuits which an adequate evaluation can provide for purposes of identifying whether project plans are pursued by the people as expected. Moreover, administrator has also a role in looking into the professional growth of his personnel staff, and that he is also concerned in identification, orientation, assignment, improvement and evaluation of staff. An institution creates and operates in a situation where there is a high expectancy of what institution does to improve the quality of living of those whom it serves. Educational administrator handles the total institution building as part of his administration tasks. Problems that maybe Encountered in Institution Building Some of the problems that maybe encountered in institution building can be cited as… 1. Unfit goals and objectives of programs by institution for the target clientele it serves; 2. Political factor may also be a problem in such a way that oftentimes the politician’s ideas and attitude do not jibe with those of educational planner or administrator. 3. Economic factor may also be a problem when the use and distribution of resources become unbalance; Economic analysis is needed because it provides supporting data for more intelligent decision for institutional builders; and provides a broad framework within which the desired educational objectives can be expressed and accomplished in the most reasonable and efficient manner. 4. Problems, to deal with the untrained people performing task which are not their field of specialization. 5. Administrator’s lack of leadership capability to lead the personnel. Administrator must have a thorough knowledge his people and get acquainted to be effective and efficient administrator of an institution in terms of. . . a. b. c. d. e. f. g. Objectives of institution Structures of an institutional building Content of institution Methods and technique Financing the institution Innovations and technology Research and evaluation 6. Lack of careful planning among the people and administrators to ensure the growth, development and success of institution building. It needs harmonious working relationship between and among staff and the administrator. 7. Insufficient funds for operation. Funds or adequate budget plays an important role in institution building because whole system survival depends upon its budget. It lacks of resources such as money, man and technology will have a telling effect on the institution capabilities to sustain its operation and initiate programs and project attuned to the needs, problems and interest of the people it serves. 8. Lack of supervision by the administrator. The administrator has a role/involvement in making the educational program effective. 9. Lack of technical competence, apply the techniques and methods in each program. 10. Unfit programs to its clientele, which means that you must consider primarily the clientele you, need to serve. An institution needs constant re-examination to enable it to become an effective agency of progress and enlightenment. SUMMARY It is a truism that in the academe, school administrators started their career as ordinary classroom teachers and rise in the hierarchy of the organization due to exposure, experiences and obtaining an advance degree in which they gained knowledge, skill and abilities useful to make the institution and the people they lead to a better and conducive place of study and source of information and technologies. As he ascends to an administrative position, his main concern is to build up that institution he heads. This he can verily do by manifesting leadership capability, which can liken to a bow, which gives guidance and direction to reach its target. Leadership binds the integral parts of an institution into one functional and united whole; and the force that pushes an institution focused towards its goal and objectives. The discussion has vividly potrayed how relationship becomes an important factors in institution building. Initially, it discussed the concept of leadership in terms of types, styles, character traits and managerial dimension of leadership It was also established that leadership was a link-pin in decision-making, organizing, planning, staffing, coordinating, communicating, controlling and evaluating processes. As leadership thrives in an organization, literature regarding the concept and elements of organization, and management process with respect to the interplay of these elements in an organization and the leadership role in the organization management have been given due course. Lastly, the unit ended up presenting some problems concerning the role of leadership in institution building.