Abstract
The organization of the leader has to be ready in all aspects of activities to lead effectively. Similarly, department heads are responsible for promoting good teaching and learning practices among teachers and students. This study was aimed to examine which leadership style used by Natural and computational college of Debre Berhan University and the relationship between the leadership style and college effectiveness in students' performance. The sample were 95 females and 125 males; 16 administrators (college head, associate deans, coordinators, department heads, and officers), and 24 student monitors with available sampling, and out of 312 teachers,180 with simple random sampling. The researchers used questionnaires, focused group discussion and observation to collect data. The data was analyzed employed both qualitative and quantitative analysis and a descriptive survey design. The overall result indicated that transformational leadership and autocratic styles were highly applied than the remaining leadership wo leadership styles because its components are (0.895,0.7140 and 0.887,0.674) respectively revealed that these are the main components in leading the college while others are used moderately and rarely. It was also revealed that the selected college students and workers perform reasonably better. Moreover, both teachers and students were satisfied with their college leaders that indicated that the performance of teachers and students is the direct reflection of leadership styles. It was recommended that the college head and his subordinate coordinators should improve their way of transformational and autocratic leadership style since they were found as the best factor of student performance. Keywords : leadership styles, student performance, University education, University context DOI: 10.7176/JEP/11-34-03 Publication date: December 31 st 2020
Highlights
IntroductionBackground Leadership is a complex, multifaceted process concerned with the art of inspiring, motivating, and guiding followers in a particular direction which involves casting a vision, goal setting, and encouraging people to be successful(Fischer, Dietz, & Antonakis, 2017)
Illustrate that the most important components among the four style of leadership for genuine teaching learning processes are those which are revealed in component one with eigen value greater than one and have a component value greater than 0.350 (Bro & Smilde, 2014). That is, during their activities expertise and professionals want their college head or leaders allow them to find their passion(0.942) which is similar to the suggestion of (Snell & Swanson, 2000), they are need guidance and direction from their heads without pressure which is a key to accomplish their performance according to the college aims and objectives(0.602) that is in accordance with the idea of (Moynihan & Pandey, 2010)
It is up to the leader to select what style of leadership applies to its employees, but according to Debre Berhan university natural and computational college some of democratic and transformational as well as a few componts of laisses fair and autocratic style of leadership, bring benefits to their organization and its stakeholders
Summary
Background Leadership is a complex, multifaceted process concerned with the art of inspiring, motivating, and guiding followers in a particular direction which involves casting a vision, goal setting, and encouraging people to be successful(Fischer, Dietz, & Antonakis, 2017). These leaders should promote happiness, unity, harmony, strength, and prosperity in society (Potocki & Brocato, 1995). It is critical for the success and survival of all forms of organizations preparing objectives, building charming and attractive leadership. The leader shows how to set objectives and implement them based on established rules and regulations (Zvavahera, 2014a)
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