Leadership Styles and Educators’ Commitment in Private Universities in Malaysia

Authors

  • Simran Kaur
  • Jasminder Kaur a/p Harbindar Jeet Singh
  • Jugindar Singh a/l Kartar Singh
  • Shailaja Kumar

Abstract

The objective of the study was to examine the correlation between selected leadership styles and educators’ commitment through a quantitative method of research. The limitation of the previous studies which became the cornerstone for this study was two-fold, firstly the leadership style focused on in previous studies were transformational and transactional leadership and secondly there is a dearth of research on leadership styles and organizational commitment from a private universities perspective. In this study, three independent variables namely democratic leadership, autocratic leadership and laissez-faire leadership were tested against three dependent variables namely; affective commitment, continuance commitment and normative commitment. This created nine hypotheses in total which was tested and analysed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). A total of one hundred and twenty-seven (127) valid and complete questionnaires were collected from six different universities providing a number of interesting findings, namely a positive correlation between democratic leadership with affective and normative commitment; a positive correlation between autocratic leadership and continuance commitment and a positive correlation between laissez-faire leadership with affective and normative commitment. The findings of this study is intended to contribute to the knowledge of leadership styles and educators’ commitments. This study is concluded with a few recommendations and limitations.

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2020-01-04

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