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The role of transformational leadership style in enhancing lecturers’ job satisfaction

The challenges confronting Malaysia’s Research Universities in their futuristic movement towards world Class University are enormous. Leadership styles employed in higher education institutions play crucial role in achieving lecturers’ job satisfaction. This paper examines the influence of transfo...

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Main Authors: Sadeghi, Amir, Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
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Language:English
Published: Center for Promoting Ideas 2013
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30821/1/The%20role%20of%20transformational%20leadership%20style%20in%20enhancing%20lecturers.pdf
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spelling oai:psasir.upm.edu.my:30821 http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30821/ The role of transformational leadership style in enhancing lecturers’ job satisfaction Sadeghi, Amir Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah The challenges confronting Malaysia’s Research Universities in their futuristic movement towards world Class University are enormous. Leadership styles employed in higher education institutions play crucial role in achieving lecturers’ job satisfaction. This paper examines the influence of transformational leadership style employed by departments heads on improving lecturers’ job satisfaction. The population comprised the lecturers from three leading Research Universities. The responses were subjected to multiple regression analysis. The findings uncovered ‘inspirational motivation’ and ‘idealized influence’ as most often used practices of transformational leadership by the departments heads and identified that transformational leadership improves lecturers’ job satisfaction more than other leadership styles. Center for Promoting Ideas 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/30821/1/The%20role%20of%20transformational%20leadership%20style%20in%20enhancing%20lecturers.pdf Sadeghi, Amir and Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah (2013) The role of transformational leadership style in enhancing lecturers’ job satisfaction. International Journal of Business and Social Science, 4 (8). pp. 264-271. ISSN 2219-1933; ESSN: 2219-6021 http://ijbssnet.com/journal/index/2011
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description The challenges confronting Malaysia’s Research Universities in their futuristic movement towards world Class University are enormous. Leadership styles employed in higher education institutions play crucial role in achieving lecturers’ job satisfaction. This paper examines the influence of transformational leadership style employed by departments heads on improving lecturers’ job satisfaction. The population comprised the lecturers from three leading Research Universities. The responses were subjected to multiple regression analysis. The findings uncovered ‘inspirational motivation’ and ‘idealized influence’ as most often used practices of transformational leadership by the departments heads and identified that transformational leadership improves lecturers’ job satisfaction more than other leadership styles.
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