Analyzing the Role of Leadership Level of Academic Leaders on Job Embeddedness of Faculty: a study at Tertiary Level in Punjab

Abstract

The purpose of current study is to analyze the outcome of different levels of leadership on job embeddedness of college faculty. In current era of competition, retaining experienced employees is essential for any organization. If employees lose job for any reason, corporate memory is lost. It can cause financial loss as well. In academia, this challenge is as dangerous as in corporate world. Higher education institutes are in need of experienced employees and experienced instructional leaders. The application of five levels of leadership by Maxwell (2011) give new direction to the concept of leadership as compared to old theories’ Leadership affects many dimensions in the organization (Dewi,2020).Organizational culture, employee’s performance and retention of corporate memory. Many factors like job satisfaction and behavior of employees is also get affected by leadership (Haerani et al, 2020). Empirical evidences from researches by Arfah & Aditya, 2019; Firman et al., 2020 ; Nurhilalia et al., 2019 proved that retaining human resources of organization bring a stability in its performance. There is a knowledge gap in literature on the topic of effect of leadership on job embeddedness. As job embeddedness and level of leadership are new constructs, not a single study in educational construct can be found on effect of leadership on job embeddedness. It is relatively a concept. It provides logic about the three factors fit, link and sacrifice which enable an employee to stick to job embeddedness (shah et al, 2020).This study investigated the effect of five levels of leadership presented by john Maxwell (2011) on job embeddedness of college faculty on tertiary level of higher education department Government of Punjab, Pakistan.

Current study was descriptive in nature. Descriptive research helps in exploring the phenomena. It provides first foot prints about any individual and phenomena in natural setting. It provides the replies of when, what, where and how. It can use many research designs to get information (McCombes, 2023).

As this study was designed to elicit information from respondents. Therefore, Cross sectional survey was conducted to explore the perception of faculty. According to (Cohen et al, 2007) Data was gained form participants and was converted in numeric form. It was entered in the spread sheet of SPSS 20. Data was analyzed by using quantitative techniques i.e. Mean and standard deviation was determined. Multiple regression were applied to see the relationship and effect of variables.

The analysis of gained data revealed that the principals of colleges in Lahore division, Punjab attained fourth level on LLQ that is “People Development”. College faculty members were secured highest level on all three dimensions of job embeddedness scale. Data revealed that the stage of leadership that a principal secures strongly affects job embeddedness level of college faculty members and there is a resilient and noteworthy association is found between levels of leadership and job embeddedness of faculty.

The study concluded that the better level of leadership heightens the job embeddedness level of faculty members.