Teacher Leadership and its Effectiveness in Enhancing Commitment and Organizational Effectiveness in Higher Education Institutes
Keywords:
Leadership Effectiveness | Commitment | Higher Educational InstitutesAbstract
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership effectiveness of leaders in higher education institutions and their commitment in order to pinpoint possible areas of improvement. This paper also examines the relationship between leadership effectiveness and commitment among teachers of higher educational institutes.
Design Methodology: As this is a conceptual paper, examination of available literature related to the topic, “Teacher Leadership and its Effectiveness in Enhancing Commitment And Organizational Effectiveness In Higher Education Institutes”, was undertaken. The information available paved the way to study, explain and understand the relationship between leadership effectiveness and commitment among teachers in higher education.
Findings: The study showed that leadership effectiveness plays a very dominant role in developing institutes and their employees. A high degree of correlation between leadership and commitment among teachers has been reflected in the study. An academic leader should possess credibility, inspirational personality, knowledge, skills, abilities and experience to lead others, eagerness to acquire new skills, adapt to changing environment, be flexible, share information, be supportive and recognize the efforts of his subordinates. Performance of students is affected by levels of organizational commitment of teachers in higher education institutions as it improves the attitude of the students towards their work.
Originality/ Value: This study seeks to understand the concepts of leadership effectiveness and commitment so as to apply it to teachers in higher education specially in technical and management institutes. This was required because whatever is taught in these institutes gets directly converted to job. Hence an attempt was made to understand whether these qualities if a teacher has any influence on the student performance or not.
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