2023
DOI: 10.18488/61.v11i4.3513
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Nurturing academic leadership: A quest for the ideal academic leadership style for Maldives higher education

Aishath Waheeda,
Asokan Vasudevan,
Sam Toong Hai
et al.

Abstract: Higher education leadership is an understudied area, especially at the departmental or faculty level. The current study explored preferred academic leadership styles as perceived by academic deans and their lecturers in Maldivian Higher Education Institutes (HEIs). A sequential explanatory mixed method design informed by post-positivist techniques was used in this study. In the first phase, the survey method was used to directly reach many respondents, administer the instruments and to collect the required dat… Show more

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“…The laissez-faire leadership style being the least popular could be because of the passive leadership role and by the leader being passive, this affects the productivity of the whole organization. Laissez-faire leaders strive to put off reacting to pressing situations that require their attention and show less involvement in organizational affairs [52,53] . Further, the leader does not make any attempt to satisfy the colleagues or subordinates.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…The laissez-faire leadership style being the least popular could be because of the passive leadership role and by the leader being passive, this affects the productivity of the whole organization. Laissez-faire leaders strive to put off reacting to pressing situations that require their attention and show less involvement in organizational affairs [52,53] . Further, the leader does not make any attempt to satisfy the colleagues or subordinates.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Such leaders are less concerned with people and the organization, have damaging effects on the productivity and leave the organization voluntarily or are terminated [51] . Further, Laissez-faire leaders participate less in organization work and delay responding to critical issues that need their attention [52,53] . According to Avolio [54] , on the leadership behavior continuum, the laissez-faire leadership is at the lowest.…”
Section: Leadership Stylesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They perform different roles; transformational leadership role; instructional leadership role; distributive leadership role; technology leadership role; contingent leadership role; ethical leadership role etc. for the enhancement of TPD (Sarwar et al, 2022;Waheeda, 2022;Zhuo, 2022). In Pakistan, there is little research work on HODs' leadership role toward TPD in higher education.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%