Leadership development (LD) activity and its effectiveness has not been explored rigorously across changing university settings globally. As Higher Education settings change radically throughout the world, Higher Education professionals are operating in more uncertain environments, and leaders are taking increasingly complex and diverse approaches to their leadership roles. LD activities therefore become important in supporting this highly complex context, yet little is known in the literature about LD and its impact in Higher Education. We examine peer‐reviewed work on LD in Higher Education settings globally to understand what may be learned about its content, processes, outcomes and impact. Our results suggest the current literature is small‐scale, fragmented and often theoretically weak, with many different and coexisting models, approaches and methods, and little consensus on what may be suitable and effective in the Higher Education context. We reflect on this state of play and develop a novel theoretical approach for designing LD activity in Higher Education institutions.

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高等教育中的领导力发展：文献综述和对项目重新设计的影响

尚未在全球不断变化的大学环境中严格探索领导力发展 (LD) 活动及其有效性。随着世界各地的高等教育环境发生根本性变化，高等教育专业人员在更加不确定的环境中运作，领导者正在采取越来越复杂和多样化的方法来发挥其领导作用。因此，LD 活动在支持这种高度复杂的背景方面变得重要，但关于 LD 及其对高等教育的影响的文献知之甚少。我们研究了全球高等教育环境中关于 LD 的同行评审工作，以了解在其内容、过程、结果和影响方面可以学到什么。我们的结果表明，当前的文献规模小、零散且理论薄弱，具有许多不同且共存的模型，方法和方法，对于在高等教育背景下什么是合适和有效的，几乎没有达成共识。我们反思了这种情况，并开发了一种新的理论方法来设计高等教育机构的 LD 活动。