Servant Leadership, Career, and Life Satisfaction in Higher Education: a Cross-Country Study of Spain, China, and Pakistan

Development and validation of servant leadership scale in Spanish higher education

Leadership & Organization Development Journal ◽

10.1108/lodj-01-2019-0041 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (4) ◽

pp. 499-519 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Khawaja Fawad Latif ◽

Frederic Marimon

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Life Satisfaction ◽

Servant Leadership ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Career Satisfaction ◽

Leadership Behavior ◽

Equation Model ◽

Relationship Building ◽

Content Type ◽

Spanish Higher Education

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is twofold. First is the validation of a scale to measure the servant leadership of the university leaders. Second is to analyze how servant leadership affects the career satisfaction and life satisfaction of the academics.Design/methodology/approachUsing a survey of 148 academics at universities located in Spain collected in May 2018, a couple of models were conducted using structural equation model techniques: a confirmatory factor analysis of second order in order to assess the leadership scale and a mediation model to assess how servant leadership impacts on the life satisfaction through career satisfaction.FindingsResults reveal that leadership is a multi-dimensional construct having dimensions namely: behaving ethically, development, emotional healing, empowerment, pioneering, relationship building and wisdom. The total effect of servant leadership on life satisfaction is null due to a competitive mediation of career satisfaction.Originality/valueResearch on servant leadership has primarily focused on business organizations through extensive search in peer-reviewed databases the authors could not find a scale to measure servant leadership behavior in higher education. Additionally, the study assesses the role of career satisfaction as mediator between servant leadership and life satisfaction. Existing research has called for further research into both career and life satisfaction. Life satisfaction research has been criticized on the grounds that it has mainly overlooked the work/organizational settings. Moreover, the authors could only find little research into life satisfaction in higher education, that too in context of students.

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Engineers or Lawyers? Institutions and Demand for Higher Education

Voprosy Ekonomiki ◽

10.32609/0042-8736-2012-10-30-51 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 30-51 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

T. Natkhov ◽

L. Polishchuk

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Public Administration ◽

Rule Of Law ◽

Transmission Channel ◽

Demand For Education ◽

Fields Of Study ◽

Quality Of Institutions ◽

Cross Country ◽

Rules Of The Game

Law and public administration schools in Russia vastly exceed in their popularity sciences and engineering. We relate such lopsided demand for higher education to the quality of institutions setting “rules of the game” in economy and society. Cross-country and Russian interregional data indicate the quality of institutions (rule of law, protection of property rights etc.) is negatively associated with the demand for education in law, and positively — in sciences and engineering. More gifted younger people are particularly sensitive to the quality of institutions in choosing their fields of study, and such selection is an important transmission channel between institutions and economic growth.

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