Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to explore the impact of change leadership on staff organizational citizenship behavior in a university setting. Moreover, the study aims to explore forces that influencing on staff organizational citizenship behavior in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach -The study adopts a qualitative research design. An interview protocol along with field notes were used as major approaches for collecting in-depth data. Coding and categorizing approach were used to analyze interview transcriptions to help for emerging the study's themes. Findings -The findings reveal that change leadership builds confidence of staff, motivate them and helps to ensure trust. Moreover, results show that staff organizational citizenship behavior is influenced by personal, organizational, social-cultural and economic forces. To increase the organizational citizenship behavior of staff in higher education institutions, there is a need for leaders to use appropriate change-oriented style in leading their organizations. Findings also revealed that change leaders must serve as role-model to their subordinates as a way on enhancing staff organizational citizenship behavior. Research limitations/implications -Academic leaders are the pivot of change in higher education institutions. Accordingly, the effectiveness of higher education institution, staff and students are depending on the effectiveness of the leadership. In this regard, academic leaders' willingness to change is the most effective factor that not only sets the credibility of the organization, but, more importantly, influence on staff organizational behavior. Practical implications -It is hoped that the outcome of this research will contribute to the current knowledge of change leadership and organizational behavior in universities. Originality/value -This is an original research and makes a great contribution to higher education in Asian countries.

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Knowledge is an essential factor in human existence. Education has been found responsible for social, economic, cultural and technological development of human society. Higher education institutions are responsible for producing required skilled human capital needed to enhance sustainable development. For these institutions to meet up with numerous demand of the society and function effectively leadership is an essential factor to be considered. This study examined the effect of leadership self-efficacy, change oriented behavior on staff organizational citizenship behavior in higher education institutions focusing on the moderating effect of experience. A total of 420 staff from 10 different higher education institutions in Lagos State, Nigeria were sampled. Structural Equation Modeling was used to access the moderating effect of experience on these variables. It was found that experience moderates the relationship between leadership self-efficacy, change oriented behavior, change policy and organizational citizenship behavior. Therefore, experience must be considered as a vital factor in higher education management and development.

Education is a vital tool for national growth and development. Higher education institutions provide the nation with skilled manpower needed to attain holistic development. Despite the roles played by higher education institutions in nation building, these institutions are at the edge of collapse as a result of poor funding. Government fund is not adequate to meet needs of students and higher education institutions. Several options like internal sources, government supports, use of tuition fees and a host of others have been provided but all yield little result. In order to find a lasting solution to the persisting financial problem facing higher education in the country, this paper presents the Islamic finance products as an alternative measure to sustainable higher education financing in Nigeria. It adopted a qualitative case study approach. Interview was conducted on eight experts including shariah experts, lecturers and educational administrators. At the end, the research study proposed that sukuk ( bond), waqf (endowment) and zakat (charity) should be used for providing facilities and support to higher education institutions in the area of research, provision of educational facilities, building of hostels for indigent students, payment of salary, provision of scholarship to students from poor background and a host of others. To achieve these, government, policy planners and leaders in higher education institutions in Nigeria must ensure collaboration with private investors, philanthropists, industries, zakat and endowment foundations and experts in Islamic finance to provide a lasting solution to the poor funding of higher education in the country.