http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).37
10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).37
Published : Jun 2019
Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education
The study aimed to investigate the proficiency of women academic leaders in public universities, Pakistan. The transformational leadership approach was used to conduct this study. A semi-structured interview protocol was developed to collect data. A convenient sampling technique was applied to collect data from twenty women leaders from the three public universities of Punjab. The interview questions were based on the six-dimensions of transformational leadership. The deductive method was applied to reach conclusions. The results identified that women academic leaders were not that proficient in their transformational leadership practices since four out of six TL-dimensions emerged crucial in all the three public universities.
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Transformational Leadership; Women Leaders; Public Universities; Leadership Practices.
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(1) Asia Zulfqar
Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.
(2) Syed Nasir Hussain
Lecturer,Department of Early Childhood Education and Elementary Teacher Education, Allama Iqbal Open University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
(3) Shehzad Ahmed
Assistant Professor,Department of Education,University of Okara, Okara, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA : Zulfqar, A., Hussain, S. N., & Ahmed, S. (2019). Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education. Global Regional Review, IV(II), 351-358. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).37
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CHICAGO : Zulfqar, Asia, Syed Nasir Hussain, and Shehzad Ahmed. 2019. "Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education." Global Regional Review, IV (II): 351-358 doi: 10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).37
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HARVARD : ZULFQAR, A., HUSSAIN, S. N. & AHMED, S. 2019. Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education. Global Regional Review, IV, 351-358.
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MHRA : Zulfqar, Asia, Syed Nasir Hussain, and Shehzad Ahmed. 2019. "Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education." Global Regional Review, IV: 351-358
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MLA : Zulfqar, Asia, Syed Nasir Hussain, and Shehzad Ahmed. "Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education." Global Regional Review, IV.II (2019): 351-358 Print.
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OXFORD : Zulfqar, Asia, Hussain, Syed Nasir, and Ahmed, Shehzad (2019), "Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education", Global Regional Review, IV (II), 351-358
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TURABIAN : Zulfqar, Asia, Syed Nasir Hussain, and Shehzad Ahmed. "Breaking Through the Glass Ceiling: Leadership Practices of Women Leaders in Higher Education." Global Regional Review IV, no. II (2019): 351-358. https://doi.org/10.31703/grr.2019(IV-II).37