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16 Pages : 263-278

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-I).16      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-I).16      Published : Mar 2018

Impact of QEC Leaders Intellectual Competencies on Quality Enhancement of Higher Education Institutions

    This study investigates the impact of QEC Leaders' intellectual competencies on Quality Enhancement of Higher Education Institutions - HEIs and Universities. Quantitative data from QEC Officials of public and private sector universities in Islamabad is collected. QEC Leaders' intellectual competencies were measured by adapting Leadership Dimension Questionnaire (LDQ) from Dulewicz and Higgs (2005, 2008). Quality Enhancement was measured by using Quality Enhancement Questionnaire (QEQ) developed by HEC QAA (2006). A survey questionnaire based methodology was used to collect data from QEC Leaders of public and private universities of Islamabad. Correlation and regression analyses were used to test research hypotheses. Findings imply that QEC Leaders' strategic perspective significantly contribute towards Quality Enhancement generally and specifically towards Implementation of SA Mechanism. Furthermore, QEC Leaders possessing strong vision and imagination competencies have significant influence on Empowering QEC and high ranked QEC to contribute in the Quality Enhancement. Leadership competencies are the basic elements contributing for betterment of performance of an organization and quality enhancement. A vital role is played by the QEC Leaders for achieving organizational objectives and goals to enhance quality of Institutions and provide conducive working environment which ultimately encourages the attitudes, behaviors and motivates the followers. This study was limited to examine relationship between QEC Leaders' intellectual competencies and Quality Enhancement of HEI's in Islamabad. Further research is suggested to validate this model all QECs of Pakistan. Findings provide implications for academicians and QEC professionals to formulate policies for improving Quality of Education in Pakistan. The study provides directions for future research.

    Quality Enhancement, QEC Managers, Leadership, Intellectual Competencies
    (1) M Iftikhar Ali
    PhD Scholar (Education), Department of Education, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Umbreen Ishfaq
    Assistant Professor, Department of Education, University of Haripur, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Riaz Ahmed
    Associate Professor, Department of Education, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

17 Pages : 301-318

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).17      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).17      Published : Jun 2018

Empowered Leadership and Employee Outcomes: Mediating Role of Employee Engagement

    Drawing on empowerment literature and intrinsic motivation, this study examines the relationship of empowering leadership and employee outcomes (service performance and organizational citizenship behavior; OCB), along with mediating role of employee engagement. Based upon data of 970 officer level employees working in banking industry of Pakistan, hierarchical regression results demonstrated that empowering leadership behavior is positively related to employee service performance and OCB. Further, the results also reveal employee engagement partially mediated the relationships between empowering leadership and employee behavioral outcomes.

    Empowering Leadership, Employee Engagement, Service Performance, OCB, Banking Sector of Pakistan
    (1) Usman Ghani
    PhD Scholar (LMS), National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan
    (2) Muhammad Tahir Masood
    Professor, Department of Management Sciences, University of Wah, Wah Cantt. Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Zia Ur Rehman
    Assistant Professor, LMS Department, National Defence University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

26 Pages : 454-471

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).26      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-II).26      Published : Jun 2018

Transformational Leadership and Job Satisfaction: A Confirmatory Study in the Banking Sector of Pakistan

    The main purpose of the study was to identify TL 's effect on employees' JS Crosssectional research design was selected for the study. Study participants were 177 employees from forty-one (41) private banks of district Swat. The instrument used for the study were Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MQL) Form 6 developed by (Avolio and Bass, 1990), TL scale developed by Hartog, De Hoogh, and Kalshoven (2013) and JS scale developed by Spector (1994). A convenience sampling method was applied for data collection. Results of the study revealed a significant positive association between TL 's components (IM, IC, II, IS), and JS IM and IS were the best predictors of JS.

    Job Satisfaction; Transformation al Leadership, and Private Banking Sector
    (1) Atiatullah
    M.Phil ScholarDepartment of Management Studies, University of Malakand, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Nazim Ali
    Assistant Professor,Department of Management Studies,University of Malakand, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Zahid Ali
    Lecturer, Department of Management Studies,University of Malakand, KP, Pakistan.

17 Pages : 300-316

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).17      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-III).17      Published : Sep 2018

Engaging Employees through Ethical Leadership

    This research explores how ethical behavior of leaders influence employee engagement by enhancing the moral intensity of the employees. It also explores the impact that transparency of policies that a leader applies and decisions that he takes can have on the organizational citizenship of the employees. Two conceptual models are used to explore the constructs in light of social learning and social exchange theory. Data from 205 faculty members, working in higher education sector of Islamabad and Rawalpindi, was collected through structured questionnaires. Results revealed a considerable positive relation exists among ethical leadership and the organizational citizenship behavior of employees in an organization when mediated by moral intensity. Subsequently, significance is analyzed in ethical leadership and moral intensity when transparency moderated the relationship. The study contributes to the understanding of how perception of faculty members regarding their leaders’ ethical behavior can have an effect on the implementation of policies. It also explains the role of transparency of the ethical conduct in enhancing faculty’s performance and leading to the benefit of higher education institutions.

    Ethical Leadership, Organizational Citizenship Behavior, Moral Intensity, Transparency
    (1) Nida Kamal
    Lecturer, Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Hina Samdani
    Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Amna Yameen
    Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Bahria University, Islamabad, Pakistan.

41 Pages : 601-615

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).41      10.31703/gssr.2018(III-IV).41      Published : Dec 2018

Investigating the Support of Social Media for Leadership Styles: A Survey of Teachers from Higher Education in DI-Khan KP Pakistan

    People with some digital literacy using social media seem more inclined to transformational leadership style and simultaneously, dislike and avoid a preference for the transactional type of leaders. The reason is that TRF is based on high connectivity between leader and followers, while TRS runs on the documented rules and regulations without any continuous change so subordinates are given guidelines once and no need of constant communication. This study investigates the existence of these links among the Faculty members of universities in D.I.Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The objective is to statistically measure the nature and strength of the hypothesized links among educated citizens. The statistical results are supportive at the level of positive and negative relations; however, the readings from connections show varying statistics regarding the power of the links. The simultaneous existence of both positive and negative impacts of SM has been well established with huge statistical scores. Further, the demographic impacts have also been verified from the field study. The findings contain a package of guidelines for the concerned people to focus on their SM and TRF to get more effective results from the connections.

    Teachers from Higher Education, Social Media, Transformation al & Transactional Leadership Style
    (1) Azmat Ali Shah
    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Qurtuba University of Science & Information Technology DI Khan, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Zubair Baloch
    Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Gomal University DI.Khan, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Raza Ullah Shah
    Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Qurtuba University of Science & Information Technology DI Khan, KP, Pakistan.

15 Pages : 117-122

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).15      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).15      Published : Mar 2019

Servant Leadership and Enhancement of Organizational Performance

    The Servant Leader Model is a theory that advances administration, supports trust, coordinates effort, future-arranges and utilizes moral capacity to engage others, focusing on good ethical practices. This study inspects the faculty of public and private universities in Peshawar for elements of servant leader behavior (wisdom, emotional healing and persuasive mapping) and effect on performance. Drawing on information from 95 teaching faculty members from different universities, we discovered help for the immediate impact of the all elements of servant leader behavior administration on universities performance. The findings add to servant leadership practices, in like manner to values-based administration, which conceivably may include novel literature regarding the relationship between servant leadership and performance of universities teachers. Implications form the last part of the paper.

    Organizational performance, servant leadership, universities and Peshawar
    (1) Muhammad Hashim
    PhD Scholar, Preston University, Islamabad Campus, Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Azizullah Khan
    Assistant Professor, Preston University, Islamabad Campus, Pakistan.
    (3) Saqib Adnan
    MS Scholar, IBMS, University of Agriculture, Peshawar, KPK, Pakistan.

37 Pages : 281-286

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).37      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).37      Published : Mar 2019

Effects of Principals' Leadership Styles on Teachers' Performance at Secondary Schools in Dera Ismail Khan

    This learning was directed acts discover the effect of Principals leadership strategies on teachers act of secondary school in D.I.Khan. The research was cross sectional and parametric in nature. The record was collected by both from principals and teachers of secondary school located in the district. The outcomes were fascinatingly opposing to the assumed statements i.e in this broadsheet the impact of transactional and transformational guidance style has been found contrary on teachers enactment. The reason for such phenomena has been deliberated in this broadsheet. The study concluded that both leadership styles i.e transformational and transactional styles of principles of the school understudy have been found not supporting in improvement in teachers performance

    Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, Teachers Performance. Secondary School
    (1) Farhat Yasmin
    Ph.D. Scholar, Depart of Management Sciences,Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology. D.I.Khan KP. Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Imran
    Assistant Professor,Depart of Management Sciences, Qurtuba University of Science and Information Technology. D.I.Khan KP. Pakistan.
    (3) Maria Sultana
    Assistant Professor, Department of Management Sciences,Leads University, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.

08 Pages : 60-66

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).08      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).08      Published : Jun 2019

The Mediating Effect of CSR on the Relationship between Authentic Leadership and Organization Citizenship Behavior

    The current research investigated authentic leadership and organization citizenship behavior relationship in the presence of mediator corporate social responsibility in services organizations of Pakistan. Data from the respondents were gathered through structured questionnaire. The instrument validity and reliability were ensured. A total of 220 respondents participate in the study. Participants were informed about the aim of the study. Based on regression and mediation analysis, it was found that authentic leadership was significantly related with organization citizenship behavior. We also found that corporate social responsibility partially mediates authentic leadership and organization citizenship behavior. It was concluded that managers should treat their employees fairly as a result their citizenship behavior towards organization will increase which lead to overall organization performance.

    Authentic Leadership, Corporate Social Responsibility, Organization Citizenship Behavior
    (1) Sajid Rahman Khattak
    Assistant Professor, IBMS, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Imran Saeed
    Lecturer,Department of Management Science,IBMS, The University of Agriculture, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Saima Batool
    Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Qurtuba University, Peshawar, KP, Paksitan.

20 Pages : 151-157

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).20      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).20      Published : Jun 2019

Marketing Strategies of SMEs and Performance: Empirical Evidence from Pharmaceutical Sector of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

    The study finds the effects of marketing strategies on the SME performance. Further, it explores the marketing strategies adopted by the pharmaceutical companies in various industrial sectors of KP. The Industrial Estate Hayatabad, Industrial Estate Hattar and Industrial Estate Gadoon were taken as sample areas for the selection of firms. Data was collected from 300 pharmaceutical firms in these Industrial Estates. Closedended questionnaire was used to collect data. The segmentation strategy, differentiation strategy, cost leadership strategy i.e. porter generic strategies were analyzed. The study used the correlation and regression model. Results reveal the cost leadership, differentiation strategy, segmentation have positive relationship with the firm performance. The findings also show that the cost leadership and differentiation strategy have significant effect while the segmentation strategy has insignificant effect on the performance of a firm.

    SME’S, Pharmaceutical Sector, Cost Leadership, Differentiation Strategy, Segmentation Strategy
    (1) Mian Daud Nazim
    PhD. Scholar,Department of Management Sciences, Qurtuba University of Science and IT, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Saima Batool
    Associate Professor, Department of Management Sciences, Qurtuba University of Science and IT, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Saima Urooge
    Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Islamia College University, Peshawar, KP, Pakistan.

22 Pages : 165-172

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).22      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-II).22      Published : Jun 2019

Servant Leadership Style and Leadership Effectiveness: The Moderating Role of the Cognitive Style Index

    The aim of this study is to find the moderating role of cognitive style index on servant leadership style and leadership effectiveness relationship. For this purpose, a survey was conducted on 415 teaching staff from public and private universities. A total of 200 completed questionnaires were returned and used in the analysis. Bivariate correlation and hierarchical multiple regression were used to test the hypotheses. It is concluded that cognitive style index does acts as moderator voluntary subordination, covenantal relationship and transcendent spirituality while for other it does not act as moderator. So, it means that these variables can bring change in the effectiveness of leaders while making decision to serve for society, community, employees, followers or customers.

    Servant Leadership, Cognitive Style Index, Leadership Effectiveness.
    (1) Zeeshan Zaib Khattak
    Assistant Professor,Institute of Business Studies,Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
    (2) Sammar Abbas
    Assistant Professor,Institute of Business Studies,Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.
    (3) Muhammad Kaleem
    Assistant Professor, Institute of Business Studies,Kohat University of Science & Technology, Kohat, KP, Pakistan.