Teacher Leadership and its Effectiveness in Enhancing Commitment and Organizational Effectiveness in Higher Education Institutes

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership effectiveness of leaders in
higher education institutions and their commitment in order to pinpoint possible areas of
improvement. This paper also examines the relationship between leadership effectiveness
and commitment among teachers of higher educational institutes.
Design Methodology: As this is a conceptual paper, examination of available literature
related to the topic, “Teacher Leadership and its Effectiveness in Enhancing Commitment
And Organizational Effectiveness In Higher Education Institutes”, was undertaken. The
information available paved the way to study, explain and understand the relationship
between leadership effectiveness and commitment among teachers in higher education.
Findings: The study showed that leadership effectiveness plays a very dominant role
in developing institutes and their employees. A high degree of correlation between
leadership and commitment among teachers has been reflected in the study. An academic
leader should possess credibility, inspirational personality, knowledge, skills, abilities and
experience to lead others, eagerness to acquire new skills, adapt to changing environment,
be flexible, share information, be supportive and recognize the efforts of his subordinates.
Performance of students is affected by levels of organizational commitment of teachers
in higher education institutions as it improves the attitude of the students towards their
work.
Originality/ Value: This study seeks to understand the concepts of leadership effectiveness
and commitment so as to apply it to teachers in higher education specially in technical and
management institutes. This was required because whatever is taught in these institutes gets
directly converted to job. Hence an attempt was made to understand whether these qualities
if a teacher has any influence on the student performance or naot.
Paper Type: View Point