Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
Using MLQ and WFJSDS as instruments this quantitative study found that heads of departments exhibited combination of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles. They showed transformational leadership fairly often and transactional leadership sometimes which are in line wit...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English English |
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2011
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/1/ID%2019371.pdf |
| Summary: | Using MLQ and WFJSDS as instruments this quantitative study found that heads of departments exhibited combination of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles. They showed transformational leadership fairly often and transactional leadership sometimes which are in line with MLQ norm. While they exhibited laissez-faire leadership behavior once in a while this is not consistent with MLQ norm. Lecturers’ displayed moderate level of job satisfaction. Transformational leadership was dominant predictor of job satisfaction. |
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