An-Najah University Journal for Research - B (Humanities)

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Transformational Leadership of Academic Leaders in Official Jordanian Universities and its Relation with Teaching Staff Empowerment
(2012) & Aziza Abu Dayeh; Hana’a Al-Raqqad,
This study aimed to investigate the level of practicing transformational leadership among academic leaders in official Jordanian universities, and its relationship with teaching staff empowerment. To achieve the study aim, a questionnaire was used to measure the transformational leadership of the academic leaders and the job empowerment of teaching staff. The study sample consists of (288) academic leaders in University of Jordan, Yarmouk University and Mu'tah University, and (773) teaching staff members were selected randomly in the mentioned universities, representing (30%) of the total number. The study findings revealed that academic leaders in official Jordanian universities have higher degree of transformational leadership. Findings also revealed that there is a significant positive relationship on (≥ 0.01) between leaders practicing transformational leadership and teaching staff members job empowerment. The study suggests to generalize its results, spread it in higher education institutes, performing training courses for leaders and teaching staff members. The study also recommends performing similar survey studies on other populations to verify the possibility of results generalization.