Lecturers' Perception of Deans’ Ethical Leadership and its Impact on Lecturers’ Engagement at Public Universities in Afghanistan

Faridullah Salarzai; Ghulam Omer Abdullah

doi:10.55544/jrasb.2.3.16

Authors

Faridullah Salarzai Lecturer, Faculty of Education, Kunduz University, AFGHANISTAN.
Ghulam Omer Abdullah Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics, Kabul University, AFGHANISTAN.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55544/jrasb.2.3.16

Keywords:

Lecturers' Engagement, Ethical Leadership, Public Universities, PLIS

Abstract

This study found out lecturers’ perception of deans’ ethical leadership and its relationship with lecturers’ engagement at public universities in Afghanistan. The study used a quantitative method and correlational research design. The data was collected from 152 respondents from ten public universities through an electronic questionnaire. The study used descriptive statistics to obtain the deans’ ethical leadership perception and inferential statistics to determine the correlation between the variables. The result of the study showed that deans of the faculties at public universities in Afghanistan are moderate ethical leaders, and has a significant relationship with instructors' emotional engagement and social engagement (colleagues) and no significant relationship with cognitive engagement and social engagement (students).

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Author Biography

Ghulam Omer Abdullah, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Mathematics, Kabul University, AFGHANISTAN.

I have gained my master's degree in educational management for the University Technology Malaysia. Besides, I have been working as a lecturer of English language and Literature at an Afghan Public university and national budget planning and policy manager in the ministry of finance of Afghanistan.

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