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Electronic Leadership in Time of Crisis: Challenges and Opportunities in the Light of COVID-19 Quarantine

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E-leadership can be seen from different lenses, considering the nature multidisciplinary. It can be seen from the lens of computer science, education, management, information system. Be that as it may, right now E-leadership has been drawn closer from the focal point of educational leadership. The disarray that was brought about by the spread of coronavirus has affected everyone's life. The educational segments have been terminating to keep up the progression of the instructive procedure. Similarly, the weight on educational leaders has raised fundamentally. The examination in e-leadership is as yet constrained. In this manner, more examinations are expected to augment the impact of e-leadership extraordinarily in times of emergency which force virtual correspondence and accomplishment. As educational leaders incorporate impacting and creating others, they are relied upon to proceed with their job normally. Educational leaders experience difficulties in playing out their job electronically in emergency time. In any case, as the emergency causes the introduction of chances, leading electronically in the touchy time COVID 19 isolate can mean different open doors for pioneers and instructive improvement. This examination intended to explore the opportunities and difficulties of e-leadership in times of emergency, especially in COVID 19 isolate. The examination was held utilizing qualitative request in which a top to the bottom meeting was led with educational leaders to investigate the difficulties and the potential chances of leading electronically. The discoveries are relied upon to urge educational leaders to make better move and collaboration in leading electronically uncommonly in times of emergency. Moreover, it helps approach producers to give the required readiness to educational leaders to lead adequately in various situations. Moreover, the investigation can add an adequate foundation for proficient e-instructive leadership.

Published in International Journal of Education, Culture and Society (Volume 6, Issue 2)
DOI 10.11648/j.ijecs.20210602.13
Page(s) 54-62
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Keywords

E-leadership, Leadership in Crisis, Covid-19 Leadership, E-leadership Challenges, E-leadership Opportunities

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