Academic Administrator Leadership Styles and the Impact on Faculty Job Satisfaction

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 34-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bateh Justin ◽  
Wilton Heyliger
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Academic Administrator ◽  
Administrator Leadership ◽  
Faculty Job Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact

Leadership style and job satisfaction in higher education institutions

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 140-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raimonda Alonderiene ◽  
Modesta Majauskaite
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Leadership Studies ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Faculty Job Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose – Although leadership is found to have impact on the followers’ attitudes and performance there is a gap in leadership studies in HEIs, especially having Lithuania in mind. The purpose of this paper is to study the impact of leadership style on job satisfaction of faculty in higher education institutions (HEI). Design/methodology/approach – In order to investigate before mentioned problem, the representative quantitative empirical research was conducted in 2013. It includes 72 faculty members and ten supervisors from Lithuanian public and private universities. The survey was conducted to check how leadership styles of supervisors influence faculty job satisfaction and compare the opinion of supervisors and subordinates. Findings – The empirical research revealed significant positive impact of leadership style on job satisfaction of faculty where servant leadership style has been found to have the highest positive significant impact on job satisfaction of faculty while controlling autocrat leadership style has the lowest impact. Research limitations/implications – There are several implications for further research. It can be expanded whether geographically (e.g. comparative analysis in different countries) or institutionally (e.g. in other educational institutions, such as schools or pre-schools). Practical implications – Practical implications reveal that supervisors have the power to increase the levels of job satisfaction of their faculty members, by defining their role as a leader, demonstrating certain leadership behaviors. Originality/value – This survey covers the area which lacks academic research, namely, the impact of leadership on HEI faculty. Previous leadership studies in HEI focus on particular leadership style demonstrated (van Ameijde, 2009), the impact of leadership on culture (Asmawi et al., 2013), organizational effectiveness (Siddique et al., 2011) and other factors. However, very few of them (one of the examples is the study of Webb, 2009 in USA) investigate the direct managers’ leadership style and faculty job satisfaction. Besides, the previous surveys have not covered as many leadership styles as this one does.

scholarly journals The Impact of Leadership Styles on the Job Satisfaction of Employees in a Garment Factory of Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 62-69
Author(s):  
M. A. Shantha Wijesinghe
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Leadership Styles ◽  
Leadership Style ◽  
Organizational Level ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Garment Factory ◽  
The Impact

Job satisfaction is a common but important theme discussed at organizational level. It refers to the attitude and feelings that the people have about their work. Main concern of every organization is to maintain the satisfaction of the employees so that the organizational goals can be achieved successfully. Job satisfaction of the employees can be determined by many factors. Among them, leadership style followed by the leaders is also one of the important factors. Leadership style is the manner and approach of providing direction, implementing plans and motivating people.Many scholars have addressed the impact of leadership styles on the job satisfaction of employees in different manner. But, literature on this topic in the context of Sri Lanka has not sufficiently developed. There are only few studies covered the subject of leadership in Sri Lanka particularly limiting to few sectors. Therefore, this study attempts to fill that gap of the knowledge by addressing how leadership styles affect job satisfaction of the employees, particularly in a garment factory in Sri Lanka. Methodologically, deductive testing theory approach was followed by this study. Theory was developed by the literature based on the pilot study.  As the pilot study confirmed that three major leadership styles such as democratic, autocratic and transactional style are followed by the leaders, the impact of these three styles on the job satisfaction of employees were examined by giving a questionnaire to a stratified random sample of 60 employees. Basic hypothesis of the study was that the transactional leadership style should be the most significant in determining the job satisfaction according to human nature. But the outcome of this study confirmed that the impact of democratic style was statistically more significant than autocratic and transactional styles by rejecting the initial hypothesis.  

scholarly journals The Impact of Faculty Job Satisfaction on Applying Quality Systems in Najran University: An Applied Study on College of Administrative Sciences

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 74
Author(s):  
Khalid Hassan Elbashir ◽  
Aleem Alhaj Adam
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Work Environment ◽  
Analytical Method ◽  
Administrative Support ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Quality Systems ◽  
Applied Study ◽  
Faculty Job Satisfaction ◽  
The Impact

The current study is an attempt to investigate the impact of job satisfaction on the performance of faculty in the application of quality systems at the College of Administrative Sciences in Najran University, KSA. The study adopted the descriptive analytical method and the authors developed a questionnaire included four key elements of the internal work environment (Elshaweesh, 2007):  size of job burdens, financial and moral incentives, technical support, and administrative support. The study was applied to the faculty members of the four programs of College of Administrative Sciences. The authors utilized the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (S.P.S.S), where results have been shown and a number of recommendations have been made.

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