KeywordsThis paper examines the effects of leadership behavior of deans on their university's academic and scholarly development policies. Using a sample of 400 faculty members across eight faculties, a selfdeveloped questionnaire was administered to examine the deans' leadership behavior its effectiveness on the quality of their policies.The results indicate that the leadership behavior in this research university is linked with different dimensions of effectiveness for quality. Leadership behavior Quality effectivenessResearch university MalaysiaArticle Info

Education is a key factor contributing to the success of a nation's human development to support the national vision and mission. The nation depends on schools to ensure the efficient and successful education process for human development. In fact, studies on educational progress have proven that leadership is important for school success and high performance. The vast literature has supported that transformational leadership of school principals is the proven leadership attribute in school success and achievement. Thus, this study aims at examining the relationships between principals' transformational leadership practices and school culture in primary cluster schools in the state of Selangor, Malaysia. A quantitative approach was used to achieve the aim. The study included 331 teachers in primary cluster schools in Selangor and data were analysed using SPSS v.22. The findings indicated that teachers in primary cluster schools in Selangor perceived their principals as having a high level of transformational leadership characteristics. Furthermore, a significantly positive and a strong correlation was found between principal transformational leadership practices and school culture. Multiple regression analysis showed that only four out of the eight dimensions of transformational leadership are statistically significant predictors of school culture. It is recommended that the education authorities and principals take note of the importance of transformational leadership in ensuring school success.

Malaysia, as a developing country, highly depends on its education system to achieve the Vision 2020 goal of being a developed nation. Therefore school leadership plays a key role in educational settings. As a great number of women principals are involved in leadership positions in this context, this study examined the factors influencing women principal's instructional leadership practices from teachers' perceptions through a survey instrument distributed to 39 Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur public secondary schools. Total of 357 teachers were randomly selected as the sample. The Principal Instructional Management Rating Scale encompassing 50 items was applied to find out the levels of instructional leadership practices of women principals. The quantitative data were analyzed by means, standard deviation, Pearson correlation and multiple regression. The results exhibit a moderate level of women principals' instructional leadership practices from the viewpoints of teachers in these schools. The positive inter-relationship among the dimensions of instructional leadership practices were found while experience of t were significantly perceived on women principal's instructional leadership practices. The findings show that women principals require well-organized training to enhance their learning and teaching in secondary schools and fill up the gap on relationship between women principal's leadership practices and teacher's demographic variables.

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