Nurturing academic leadership : a quest for the ideal academic leadership style for Maldives higher education

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creativework.keywordsAcademic leadership styles | Higher education leadership | Maldives | Transactional leadership | Transformational leadership
dc.contributor.authorWaheeda, Aishath
dc.contributor.authorVasudevan, Asokan
dc.contributor.authorHai, Sam Toong
dc.contributor.authorBalakrishnan, Rajani
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-24T13:41:04Z
dc.date.available2024-09-24T13:41:04Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.description.abstractHigher 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 postpositivist 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 data. from deans (N=20) and lecturers (N=170) from nine different HEIs. SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) version 23 was used to analyze the data using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics such as means, percentages, standard deviations, independent sample t-test and Pearson correlation coefficients. In the second phase, a qualitative approach was used to explain, validate and to triangulate the quantitative findings. This phase used semi-structured interviews for purposively selected deans (N=5) and lecturers (N=16) from seven different HEIs. The interview transcripts were thematically analyzed and coded using the template analysis method. The most preferred academic leadership styles in Maldivian HEIs were found to be transformational, distributed, and transactional leadership styles, respectively. To enhance academic leadership in HEIs in the Maldives, this study recommends academic leaders to use transformative and distributive leadership behaviors, which would also help HEIs in the skill development of academic deans.
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dc.identifier.urihttps://hoba.ium.edu.mv/handle/1/1944
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherConscientia Beam
dc.subjectLeadership
dc.titleNurturing academic leadership : a quest for the ideal academic leadership style for Maldives higher education
dc.title.alternativeInternational Journal of Education and Practice, vol. 11, no. 4, 2023
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