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Impact of Servant Leadership on Teaching Effectiveness: A Study of Public Sector Universities, KP, Pakistan

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  • Aftab Haider

    (Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.)

  • Muhammad Anees Khan

    (Senior Assistant Professor, Department of Management Studies, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.)

  • Tanveer Taj

    (Assistant Professor, Department of Business Studies, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.)

Abstract

Among many leadership styles, servant leadership is among recent style that is getting a wide range of attention and acceptance among business researchers and academia. The aim of this paper was to investigate the effect of Servant leadership influence on teaching effectiveness. Data were collected through questionnaires from 480 students of two public sector universities KPK. Structured Equation Modeling (AMOS) was employed to test the hypotheses of the study. Three models were developed and tested. The results show that Servant Leadership had a positive but insignificant impact on teaching effectiveness; interesting findings are that individual dimensions of servant leadership had a strong positive and significant impact on teaching effectiveness. Thus, this paper provides in-depth analysis necessary for higher educational institutes and Business institutions, for practical and theoretical implications to adopt servant leadership at the workplace.

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  • Aftab Haider & Muhammad Anees Khan & Tanveer Taj, 2020. "Impact of Servant Leadership on Teaching Effectiveness: A Study of Public Sector Universities, KP, Pakistan," Global Regional Review, Humanity Only, vol. 5(1), pages 509-518, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:aaw:grrjrn:v:5:y:2020:i:1:p:509-518
    DOI: 10.31703/grr.2020(V-I).54
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    Keywords

    Servant Leadership (SL); Leadership; Teaching Effectiveness (TE); Structural Equation Modeling;
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    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

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