Deans in Kenyan Universities: Their leadership styles and impacts on staff commitment

James Otieno Jowi

doi:10.3990/1.9789036545570

Deans in Kenyan Universities: Their leadership styles and impacts on staff commitment

James Otieno Jowi

Center for Higher Education Policy Studies

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Abstract

Leadership is an important factor in organizational success. This study analyses the leadership styles of deans in Kenyan universities and reveals that Kenyan deans lead their faculties by deploying three main leadership styles: the people managers style, the performance-driven goal-setters style and the empathetic pushers style. The study also addresses the effects of these leadership styles on faculty staff commitment and demonstrates that the people managers style leads to the best outcome on staff commitment while the performance-driven goal setters style has the least outcome on staff commitment. These outcomes are further explained based on some contemporary developments in Kenya's higher education.

Original language	English
Awarding Institution	University of Twente
Supervisors/Advisors	Denters, Bas , Supervisor de Boer, Harry F., Supervisor
Award date	13 Jun 2018
Place of Publication	Enschede
Publisher	University of Twente
Print ISBNs	978-90-365-4557-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036545570
Publication status	Published - 13 Jun 2018

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