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Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.

Using MLQ and WFJSDS as instruments this quantitative study found that heads of departments exhibited combination of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles. They showed transformational leadership fairly often and transactional leadership sometimes which are in line wit...

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Main Authors: Sadeghi, Amir, Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah, Elias, Habibah, Foo , Say Fooi
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
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Published: 2011
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/1/ID%2019371.pdf
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spelling my.upm.eprints.193712014-01-30T01:35:04Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/ Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities. Sadeghi, Amir Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah Elias, Habibah Foo , Say Fooi Using MLQ and WFJSDS as instruments this quantitative study found that heads of departments exhibited combination of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles. They showed transformational leadership fairly often and transactional leadership sometimes which are in line with MLQ norm. While they exhibited laissez-faire leadership behavior once in a while this is not consistent with MLQ norm. Lecturers’ displayed moderate level of job satisfaction. Transformational leadership was dominant predictor of job satisfaction. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/19371/1/ID%2019371.pdf Sadeghi, Amir and Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah and Elias, Habibah and Foo , Say Fooi (2011) Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities. In: 10th International Conference of the Academy of HRD (Asia Chapter) : Human Resource Development in Asia : Capitalizing on Human Expertise for Greater Innovation and Creativity, 3 - 6 December 2011, InterContinental, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. . English
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description Using MLQ and WFJSDS as instruments this quantitative study found that heads of departments exhibited combination of transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles. They showed transformational leadership fairly often and transactional leadership sometimes which are in line with MLQ norm. While they exhibited laissez-faire leadership behavior once in a while this is not consistent with MLQ norm. Lecturers’ displayed moderate level of job satisfaction. Transformational leadership was dominant predictor of job satisfaction.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Sadeghi, Amir
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Elias, Habibah
Foo , Say Fooi
spellingShingle Sadeghi, Amir
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Elias, Habibah
Foo , Say Fooi
Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
author_facet Sadeghi, Amir
Lope Pihie, Zaidatol Akmaliah
Elias, Habibah
Foo , Say Fooi
author_sort Sadeghi, Amir
title Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_short Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_full Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_fullStr Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_full_unstemmed Understanding Heads of Academic Departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in Research Universities.
title_sort understanding heads of academic departments’ leadership styles and lecturers’ job satisfaction: improving human resource development in research universities.
publishDate 2011
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