Transformational Leadership As Mediating Factor Influencing Conflict Management and Performance of Teaching Faculty at Higher Education Level: A Study in Punjab, Pakistan
Abstract
This study investigates the relationship between conflict management and performance of teaching faculty with the mediating role of transformational leadership. Conflicts are unavoidable results of social interaction between individuals, between groups, between organizations due to individual differences, incompatibility in goals etc. Same is the case with higher education institutions, unmanaged conflicts results in low performance. Researcher used Farooqi Organizational Conflict Inventory to identify conflict management strategies (independent variable), Institutional Performance Evaluation, to assess faculty performance (dependent variable) and Multifactor Leadership Style Questionnaire for transformational leadership style (mediating variable). Multistage random sampling technique was used, data was analyzed by mean, standard deviation, mediation multiple regression and AMOS. Findings revealed most of the respondents used compromising, integrating conflict management strategy; transformational leadership style mediates the relationship between conflict management and faculty performance
Authors
Sidra Kiran
Ph. D Scholar, Department of Education Faculty of Social Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan
Dr. Almas Ikram Kayani
Associate Professor, Department of Education, Faculty of Social Sciences, Pir Mehr Ali Shah Arid Agriculture University, Rawalpindi, Punjab, Paki