Transformational Leadership and Personal Demographic Profile in the Education System of India

Abstract

Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people towards becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. Leadership and the styles of leadership is one of the frequently discussed subjects within management discipline. Transformational leadership (TL) style is being considered as the most effective leadership style among all the styles. The purpose of this article is to examine the perception of faculty members towards TL of their academic leaders in the sample select universities and to study the impact of demographic variables on TL. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The data for the study were collected through both the primary and secondary sources. The measuring items used for the study were sourced from existing validated scales and literature. Descriptive statistics was employed to know the descriptive information across various demographic variables on a total sample of 719. The various demographic variables, which were considered for the study, were gender, age, designation and experience. The results revealed that the faculty members of the sample select universities perceived the TL of their academic leaders at an above-average level; presently, they are fairly satisfied with their academic leader’s TL. The results also revealed that the perception of the respondent faculty members towards their HOD’s transformational leadership from different universities and states is more or less the same and also the demographic variables have a significant impact on TL. Besides having theoretical implications that open pathways for conducting further research, the findings of the study may serve as a reference for service practitioners in designing strategies that will ensure superior performance of academic leaders in higher educational institutions.