Beseatch On The Development Mechanism Of College Students Open Leadership

One of the most significant targets for colleges and universities is to cultivate and provide talents for the society. A large number of countries and organizations regard leadership as advantageous resources for competitions, and it is a major task for Chinese colleges and universities to promote the quality of talents cultivation. The development of open leadership for undergraduates becomes a key road to upgrade the capabilities of talents.The paper explicitly defined the open leadership of college students and it structure through backtracking of the leadership theory, the leadership cultivation theory as well as the open leadership theory, based on which an influence factor model is set up in combination with the exploratory case analysis of the open leadership development practice of undergraduates in some foreign universities. In accordance with the eight factors in the model, the paper designed the questionnaire to collect data form the perspectives of inside the campus, outside the campus and individual respectively. The initial model was adjusted based on the result of the factor analysis. Meanwhile, two universities were chosen as the samples for the model verification, one in China, the other in America.The paper proposed the development approach and measures of the open leadership for college students based on the structure factors, influence factors as well as the practice inspection of undergraduates open leadership.First of all, the paper defined four structure factors of the college students open leadership:professional knowledge and technological knowhow, general skills, individual traits and open vision, which rely and make influences on each other. And the improvement of every factor has a substantial effect on the college students open leadership as a whole.Secondly, the paper adjusted the eight influence factors in the initial model:target concept, curriculum system, cultivation approach, teaching mode, teaching level, interaction with outside the campus, students feedback and macro environment, and extracted seven common factor from three dimensions——inside the campus, outside the campus and individually. The seven common factors:——target concept, cultivation program, educational resources availability from outside, extra-curricular activity availability, application ability, college students open leadership traits and individual development background——have direct and indirect influence on the four structure factors, and through which on the development and upgrade of the college students open leadership.Thirdly, the paper proposed the specific approach and the suggestions for the development of college students open leadership for colleges and universities in China: to set an open concept for talents cultivation; to establish an open cultivation program; to cultivate open leadership traits for college students through various approaches; and to build up appropriate leadership cultivation strategy for individual students concerning his/her personal background based on the overall objective of the open leadership cultivation, with some adjustment toward the development approach and the system.Finally, the paper put up a new concept:college students open leadership. The open leadership development in this sense is the deepening of the wide specialized personnel training mode. The cultivated talents from this deepened mode have a broad horizon, solid foundation of expertise, and problem solving capability. It's a brand new leadership concept based on the open innovation theory in combination with the traditional leadership theory, and will surely have a significant influence on the talents cultivation for Chinese colleges and universities.