Identify the Intelligent Leadership Components for Universities

Higher education and intelligent leadership are considered as an important part of every country's education system which could have a key role in reaching the goals of the society. In theories of leadership, new patterns attempt to view leadership from the angle of creative and intelligent phenomenon. This paper aimed to design and develop intelligent leadership model for universities. In this research, a qualitative research method and a purposeful sampling method and semi-structured interview with managers and faculty members of universities of Zahedan were used to design the native model of intelligent leadership. All interviews were recorded, handwritten and typed. Then it was coded, categorized and described in MAXQDA software and analyzed according to content analysis method. After interviewing with 20 experts, information richness, saturation and repetition of data were obtained. Therefore, the model was designed in the form of 426 codes, 89 concepts, 19 sub categories and 4 main categories (rational leadership, emotional leadership, spiritual leadership, and collective leadership).