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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Main Authors: Sadeghi, Amir, Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah, Elias, Habibah, Foo , Say Fooi
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
English
Published: 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
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author Sadeghi, Amir
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Elias, Habibah
Foo , Say Fooi
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Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Elias, Habibah
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description 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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spelling upm-193712014-01-30T01:35:04Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/ Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities. Sadeghi, Amir Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Elias, Habibah Foo , Say Fooi 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. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/1/ID%2019371.pdf Sadeghi, Amir and Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah and Elias, Habibah and Foo , Say Fooi (2011) Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities. In: 10th International Conference of the Academy of HRD (Asia Chapter) : Human Resource Development in Asia : Capitalizing on Human Expertise for Greater Innovation and Creativity, 3 - 6 December 2011, InterContinental, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. . Universities and colleges - Administration. Educational leadership. College teachers - Job satisfaction. English
spellingShingle Universities and colleges - Administration.
Educational leadership.
College teachers - Job satisfaction.
Sadeghi, Amir
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Elias, Habibah
Foo , Say Fooi
Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_full Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_fullStr Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_full_unstemmed Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_short Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_sort understanding heads of academic departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in research universities.
topic Universities and colleges - Administration.
Educational leadership.
College teachers - Job satisfaction.
url http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/
http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/1/ID%2019371.pdf