Leadership Styles in Higher Educational Institutions in India – “A Need for Paradigm Shift!”
Role of Leaders in Managing Higher Education
ISBN: 978-1-80043-733-3, eISBN: 978-1-80043-732-6
Publication date: 5 December 2022
Abstract
The progress of a nation is quite closely linked with the quality of education it offers its citizens. The onus of nurturing future leaders, the students, lies significantly with higher educational institutions (HEIs) and the academic staff associated with such institutions. Therefore, HEIs need so that these engaged employees may go on to look beyond regular extrinsic motivators to ensure employee engagement to mentor students effectively. In this study, we attempted to investigate the influence of an important predictor of employee engagement, leadership, specifically servant leadership style mediated through job satisfaction. A structured questionnaire was administered to the academic staff of the top 25 universities in India. The data collected and the proposed hypotheses were tested using structural equation modeling. The results confirmed that job satisfaction mediates the relationship between servant leadership and work engagement. The study offers insights into the importance of servant leadership to foster employee engagement and thereby institutional effectiveness in the educational sector.
Keywords
- Higher educational institutions in India
- Leadership styles
- Servant leadership
- Transformational leadership
- Constructivist leadership
- Instructional leadership
- Affiliative leadership
- Attributes of servant leadership
- Listening
- Empathy
- Self-awareness
- Trust
- Persuasion
- Foresight
- Stewardship
- Community building
- Job satisfaction
- Employee engagement
- ABC framework
- Spiritual growth
- Curriculum design
- Perception
- Indian Universities
- E-module
- Technology integration
- Innovation
- Organization change
- Disseminate knowledge
- Infrastructure facility
- Government
- Society
Citation
Sharma, V., Poulose, J. and Maheshkar, C. (2022), "Leadership Styles in Higher Educational Institutions in India – “A Need for Paradigm Shift!”", Sengupta, E. and Blessinger, P. (Ed.) Role of Leaders in Managing Higher Education (Innovations in Higher Education Teaching and Learning, Vol. 48), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 59-81. https://doi.org/10.1108/S2055-364120220000048005
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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