Abstract
An organization of university is constituted by faculty members, students and clerical employees. Both faculty members and students are supposed to act freely depending on their own individual values. However, in recent years, activities of university have come to be affected by evaluations and decisions made by outsiders surrounding the university.
A university is an organization for higher education in which it is aimed at to explore truth by research activities and disseminate the truth into the society by educational activities for students. The mission is appreciated generally inside and outside the university but various different demands are proposed due to its freedom for specific problems. That is, faculty members and students demand freedom of activities based on their individual values while people outside the university tend to demand high efficiency in goal achievement of the university. It is a critical role of a president to reconcile those demands especially since national and local public universities were transformed into independent agencies.
The author played a role of president of a local public university for nine years after engaging in research and education as a professor of national university for many years. During the presidency, he was expected to exert leadership to promote the organizational reform in the face of a huge environmental change of the university. This paper was written based on the many formal messages he sent to the faculty members. His opinions on how organizational dynamics can be controlled by leadership function were described while referring to many experiences as a president.
