Transformational Approach to Higher Educational Leadership

Abstract

Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people towards becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. Leadership and the styles of leadership is one of the frequently discussed subjects within management discipline. Transformational Leadership (TL) style is being considered as the most effective leadership style among all the styles. The purpose of this paper is to examine the perception of faculty members towards transformational leadership of their academic leaders in the sample select universities. The data collected were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The data for the study were collected both through the primary and secondary sources. The measuring items used for the study were sourced from existing validated scales and literature. Descriptive statistics was employed to know the descriptive information across various demographic variables on a total sample of 719. The various demographic variables, which were considered for the study, were gender, age, designation and experience. The results revealed that the faculty members of the sample select universities perceived the transformational leadership of their academic leaders at an above average level; presently, they are fairly satisfied with their academic leader’s transformational leadership. The results also revealed that the perception of the respondent faculty members towards their HOD’s transformational leadership from different universities and states is more or less the same.

Keywords: Transformational Leadership, Academic Leaders, Faculty, Higher Education

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