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Faculty members in polytechnics to serve the community and industry: conceptual skills and creating value for the community - the two main drivers
Citation Link: https://doi.org/10.15480/882.3850
Publikationstyp
Journal Article
Date Issued
2021-09-28
Sprache
English
Author(s)
TORE-DOI
Journal
Volume
11
Issue
3
Start Page
1
End Page
13
Citation
SAGE Open, 11 (3): 1-13 (2021-11)
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Scopus ID
Publisher
Sage Publishing
Peer Reviewed
true
Servant leadership has been proposed as a highly relevant approach to leadership in the higher education context. However, little is known about its contribution to desirable organizational outcomes in academic settings, and even less is known about the role that servant leadership’s multidimensionality plays. Consequently, our study aims to investigate the impact of servant leadership’s two dimensions (creating value for the community and conceptual skills) on academics’ job satisfaction and work motivation. Specifically, we focus on polytechnics due to their significant contribution to the community and industry in developing economies. We applied partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) to analyze the data collected from 228 academics affiliated with Malaysian polytechnics. Our analysis shows that both dimensions of servant leadership are relevant predictors of academics’ job satisfaction and work motivation. In addition, while a robustness check confirms the linearity between the variables in our model, the model exhibits a high out-of-sample predictive power, thereby making assumptions about the model relationships’ generalizability feasible. We also identified job satisfaction as the most important area of improvement that managerial activities should address.
Subjects
conceptual skills
creating value for the community
job satisfaction
work motivation
public polytechnics
partial least squares structural equation modeling
IPMA
robustness checks
DDC Class
330: Wirtschaft
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The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This study
was funded by the Universiti Sains Malaysia (Short Term Grant #304/CIPPTN/6315200).
was funded by the Universiti Sains Malaysia (Short Term Grant #304/CIPPTN/6315200).
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