Relationship between Higher Education Leaders and

2011

This study was designed to test the path-goal theory of leadership in an educational setting. It investigated the relationship among leadership behavior of degree college principals, and faculty job satisfaction, acceptance of leader and job expectancies moderated by locus of control. The questionnaire comprised of a combination of instruments measuring directive and participative leadership styles, locus of control and all three subordinate outcomes along with two scales for measuring role ambiguity and stress of the principals for controlling their affects. Responses were received from 445 lecturers and 138 principals of respective colleges. MANCOVA was used to know the moderating affect of locus of control on the relationship of leadership style and subordinates’ outcomes controlling the effect of role ambiguity and stress of the principals. Findings indicated that the locus of control differentially affected subordinate outcomes relationships with directive and participative lea...

International Education Studies, 2011

This research article intended to investigate the moderating effect of structured task on the relationship of leadership behavior of degree college principals and their subordinates' job satisfaction, job expectancies and acceptance of leader. Data was collected from 640 college faculty members and 170 principals of degree colleges situated in 34 districts of the Punjab, Pakistan. The questionnaire for this study consisted of a combination of instruments. It comprised; a) four leader behaviors b) Task Structure c) acceptance of leader, d) Job Expectancies and e) the Job Descriptive Index. The questionnaire, which was administered to the principals, was Role Ambiguity Scale and Anxiety and Stress Scale. Data was analyzed using ANCOVA through SPSS. Results were twofold as findings of five hypotheses were according to the predictions of theory while the four hypotheses could not be verified and were found contradictory. Further tests are clearly needed for having sound evidence to evaluate the merits of the path-goal theory of leadership.

2010

Journal of Arts and Social sciences

The current study demonstrates the association between the perceptions of the designations regarding college principals’ leadership style in perspective of situational leadership theory. This article is quantitative in nature and ex-post-facto research design was adopted. The population was comprised of all colleges which are affiliated with the University of the Punjab in Lahore Division. Multistage sampling technique was adopted for selecting sample. Thus, the sample of the study was comprised of 74 college principals and 370 teachers on the basis of their job experience. The instrument of LBA-II Self/Other was adopted. The data was analyzed on SPSS using descriptive and inferential statistics. There was disassociation between the perceptions of the designations regarding the primary, developing and diagnosis leadership style, except the secondary leadership style where was association found between the perceptions of the designations. Whereas, there was no difference in teachers ...

This study investigates the perception of academic administrators on the basic principles of educational leadership in higher education. The aim is to identify the principles that increase the level of effectiveness in academic works. A survey method was used to collect the data of the study. Questionnaires were distributed to academic administrators at the Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM). The findings revealed that the principles of educational leadership could help enrich excellence in higher education institutions. Also, the principles of educational leadership are applicable in leveraging academic administrators' leadership qualities in higher education institutions.

Currently, effective leadership plays an important role in improving the context of higher education. Policy makers, leaders, and university staff considered the effective leadership as determining a factor for management of universities. Although effective leadership is examined by many researchers, to the best of author knowledge, only a few references in the literature systematically reviewed which forms, behaviors of leadership are related to effective leadership in the context of higher education. To fill the gap in the existing literature, this paper aims to examine which aspects of leadership are related to effective leadership in the context of higher education. Moreover, it addresses some effective behaviors of leaders such as strategic vision, encouraging open communication, having credibility for effectively leading and acting as a role model in an educational environment. The findings suggest a direction for future development in effective leadership

Journal of College Teaching & Learning (TLC), 2011

This study was designed to investigate the relationship among leadership behavior of degree college principals, selected organizational and personal characteristics, and faculty job satisfaction, acceptance of leader and job expectancies. The moderators included task structure, role ambiguity, stress, need for autonomy, need for achievement, perception about ability and locus of control. Responses were received from 854 college faculty members. Correlation analysis indicated that leadership styles were positively related to job expectancies and negatively related to acceptance of leader and job satisfaction. There were no differences between male and female respondents on any dependent measure. Majority was satisfied with their work on the job, supervision, coworkers and job in general and were dissatisfied with their pay and the promotion policy. Regression analysis indicated that only experience and length of service under current principal had significant affect on acceptance and...

Journal of Leadership Education, 2007

The study design investigated the leadership behavior of deans of education that addresses an important aspect of leadership – leadership is created when there is alignment between the organizational leadership behaviors needed by the institution and the leadership behaviors provided by the organizational leader. A survey of a selected group of deans of education from 35 institutions addressed the questions: what do deans self-identify as their prominent leadership behavior and to what extent do deans use multiple leadership behaviors. The research of Bolman and Deal (1984) provided the frames for analysis: structural, human resource, political, and symbolic frames. The study response rate was 50%. The findings of the study indicated that the majority of respondents perceived their primary leadership behavior as most closely matching the human resource frame. Results also indicated that a majority of respondents did not perceive that they exhibited multiple leadership behavior frames simultaneously in their leadership behaviors.

Lanie M. Pacadaljen, 2021

Leaders play a vital role in the organization. It is in this reason that leaders' functions are seen as essential if not significant. In fact, leadership is defined as an art and the process of influencing and supporting others to work enthusiastically toward achieving objectives (Aquino, 2005). Taking into account the challenging role of leaders, this study assessed the leadership styles of college deans among State Universities and Colleges (SUCs) in Region VIII, Philippines. It utilized descriptive quantitative design to determine the extent of preference, knowledge and manifestation of deans along participative, supportive, directive, and achievement-oriented styles. Results revealed that supportive style is very much preferred, very much manifested and perceived that deans are very much knowledgeable. It is in this context that supportive leadership style involves building trust, inspiration, and helping colleagues overcome the challenges they encounter. Further, it encourages teamwork, show commitment towards work and pay attention to members' relationship that eventually motivate them to work cohesively as a team thereby achieving the institutional vision, mission, goals and objectives. However, along participative, directive and achievement-oriented styles, the three groups of respondents perceived them as much preferred, much manifested and much knowledgeable. Thus, college deans must be provided with ample information along leadership styles by sending them to leadership trainings and seminars. In addition, the Human Resource Management Officer may formulate a training program and conduct trainings by inviting resource persons who would talk on how to improve leadership skills and employee satisfaction, how to become an effective leader, how to get motivated in the organization, guides on how to deliver best results, and the like.

Frontiers in Psychology

In this study, we examined the impact of principals' leadership style on the performance of teachers at the college level. For this purpose, we collect data from 300 college teachers via a random sampling approach. A self-administrated questionnaire (five-point Likert Scale) was used to collect data. For detecting relationships and differences among the opinions of the study's participants, correlation and the t-test were used. This study has revealed that the majority of college principals practice a democratic style of leadership at a higher level, Laissez-faire at a moderate level, and autocratic at a low level in their colleges. Moreover, it has been also revealed that when principals increase the use of a democratic leadership style, teacher performance may progress as well. The findings revealed that principals' leadership style had a positive impact on the performance of teachers. The study exposed a strong statistically positive relationship between college princ...