Impact of Leadership Style of Academic Administrators on Institutional Performance: A South Asian State University Case Study

M A Khalil; Y Raheel

Proceedings of the IOARP International Conference on Management, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship

Impact of Leadership Style of Academic Administrators on Institutional Performance: A South Asian State University Case Study

M A Khalil, Y Raheel

Abstract

Existing research has focused on impact of leadership styles adopted by the academic administrators of the universities on factors such as faculty or student satisfaction. These factors although have an indirect impact on the institutional performance in a state university system of developing countries, there is a growing need to study the correlation between leadership styles and institutional performance through quantitative indicators.
Lack of performance regulatory mechanisms in higher education system in developing countries result in difficulties in performance evaluation based on standard performance indicators utilized for this purpose in developed countries. Based on the analysis of literature pertaining to evaluation of institutional performance, this paper identifies ever so important quantitative indicators for performance evaluation of the state universities in South Asia.
Identifying the leadership style adopted by the academic administrators has always been an area of interest for the researchers as it affects institutions in different aspects. This paper identifies the leadership style of 4 academic administrators of the state university under discussion who have served the organisation in this role during the past 12 years though a survey using Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. After identifying the leadership styles of the administrators and selecting the quantitative parameters for performance evaluation, a correlation between the leadership style and institutional performance is investigated. This paper also provides a comparison of the performance of academic administrators with varying leadership styles on selected performance indicators.

Keywords Leadership Styles, Performance Indicators, Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire.

Conference Proceedings of the IOARP International Conference on Management, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship
Conference Year 2015
Conference Dates 18-19 December, 2015
Conference Location London, United Kingdom
Published in Proceedings of the IOARP International Conference on Management, Leadership, and Entrepreneurship (IOARP ICMLE 2015)
Date Appeared in GDL 15 April 2016

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