Purpose: This study aims to examine the direct and indirect relationships between Personality Traits (PTs) and Conflict Management Styles (CMSs) through Job Performance (JP) in Pakistan. Design/methodology/approach: This is a quantitative study that employed a survey questionnaire to collect cross-sectional data from academic leaders of Pakistan's…

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the mediating role of quality culture (QC) between transformational leadership (TFL), transactional leadership (TNL) and organizational performance (OP) in higher education institutions. Design/methodology/approach: The study collects data through a nationwide survey of administrators representing public and…

Knowledge management is one of the valuable dimensions essential for the educational institution to support teachers' performance. Therefore, the role of leaders in encouraging teachers to create and share knowledge is vital to earn a competitive advantage. This research was planned to find the relationship among leadership styles…

It is widely recognized that leaders distinctly inspire individuals of an organization to maintain a healthy culture regardless of diverse circumstances. The need of authentic leadership has been recognized to promote positive organizational behaviors in teaching institutions. Moreover, previous research has emphasized the role of organizational…

The study aimed to identify the different decision making styles of academic managers in public sector universities of the Central Punjab. The theoretical structure for this study was based on Vroom-Yetton model of decision making styles. The multi-stage random sampling technique was used to draw a sample of 186 heads from ten public sector…

Leadership stains affect the follower's performances regarding innovative work behavior, and a gap is found in leadership research in higher education, specifically in Pakistan. The basic purpose of this research is to point out the effect of leadership styles on innovative work behavior under the mediating and moderating roles of organizational…

The purpose of the study is to identify the leadership styles (transformational, transactional and laissez-faire) of the campus principals/divisional directors of a public university in Pakistan. This research adopted quantitative approach to conduct the study and accordingly it falls in post positivism paradigm philosophically. The study is…

The current research intends to expand the job demands-resources model (JD-R model) by exploring the role of authentic leadership and psychological capital (PsyCap) in stress and motivational processes of JD-R model in a purposive sample of N = 500 university teachers from Pakistan. The survey instruments of the present study were self-reported…

This study attempted to compare the management practices in public and private universities in Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Pakistan. The comparison is based on availability of written rules and regulations, distribution of tasks, availability of managers, access to officers, time management, work load, staff promotion procedure and appraisal system.…

The paper aims to explore the leadership styles of Heads of Departments (HoDs) and opinions of the faculty about the leadership styles of their respective HoDs. Further it explores leadership style differences based on foreign qualification and gender of HoDs of the public and private sector universities of Pakistan. This exploratory descriptive…

The study aimed to determine the impact of organizational climate on performance of college teachers. The researcher selected the area of college education as the focus of the study. The study was delimited to all the public sector degree colleges of Punjab. Population of this study consisted of all the principals and teachers working in public…