Leadership Styles and Job Satisfaction Annotated Bibliography

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Hence, a more corporate attitude is being embraced by pro-vice-chancellors, but the salient question in this article is this: will a university be better off with corporate-style, bureaucratic leadership, or with leadership that pursues academic excellence and a pure mission of educating students?

Wang, Yong, and Poutziouris, Panikkos. (2010). Leadership Styles, Management Systems and Growth: Empirical Evidence from UK Owner-Managed SMEs. Journal of Enterprising

Culture, 18(3), 331-354. Doi: 10.1142/So21849581000604.

What these authors bring to light in this article is that a higher rate of sales and growth for medium sized businesses can be realized when run by an owner that also manages the business. This survey of 5,710 respondents in the UK further pointed to the fact that when the owner-manager delegates authority, the operation is more professional and successful.

Webb, Kerry S. (2009). Creating Satisfied Employees in Christian Higher Education: Research

on Leadership Competencies. Christian Higher Education, 8(1), 18-31.

Doi: 10:1080/153637508021712073.

Author Webb reviews the concept of leadership from the perspective of transformational leadership, transactional leadership and laissez-faire leadership in terms of what works best for presidents in colleges providing Christian education.

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Also the author looks into these three leadership strategies in terms of what kind of job satisfaction results from each. Results of the survey shows that transactional leadership tends to increase levels of job satisfaction.

Weiner, Sharon A., Breivik, Patrick Senn, Clark, Dennis, and Caboni, Timothy. (2009).

Understanding the Higher-Education Context: The Peabody Academic Library

Leadership Institute. Journal of Library Administration, 49(8), 837-846.

Doi: 10.1080/01930820903396913.

This article deals with the Vanderbilt University's Peabody Academic Library Leadership Institute, and the main point is that libraries should devote their resources, planning and their services to the goals of their parent institutions. Leadership training on campus is vital, the article explains, and points to other programs -- with varying leadership perspectives -- that offer training in library leadership. A main point is, many academic leaders come from libraries.

Zembylas, Michalinos, and Iasonos, Sotiroula. (2010). Leadership styles and multicultural education approaches: an exploration of their relationship. Leadership in Education,

13(2), 163-0183, doi: 10.1080/13603120903386969.

In this article the authors surveyed 17 principals in multicultural schools in Cyprus in order to find out what leadership styles worked.....

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