School of Education, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi'an, 710062, PR China.
PLoS One. 2022 May 12;17(5):e0266956. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266956. eCollection 2022.
Leadership plays a significant role in the performance of individuals and organizations. This paper investigates the impact of leadership styles on the innovative performance of female leaders in Pakistani Universities using a survey approach. This paper aimed to (a) discover a leadership style practiced by females and (b) discover the relationship between leadership style and the innovative performance of female leaders. Several female leaders, including faculty members, heads of departments, deans, coordinators, and directors, from public and private universities of Punjab (a province of Pakistan), were involved in this study. A sample of one hundred female leaders was selected using a multistage sampling method. In the first stage, five public and five private sector universities were selected through a simple random method. In the second stage, ten female leaders (five from each of the social science and basic science departments) were selected from each university through a purposive sampling method. The researchers adopted a reliable instrument to collect the survey data. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS (Version 26). Mean scores and Pearson correlation coefficients were used to discover the relationship between various variables. The investigation revealed that most female leaders practice the transactional leadership style in their universities. This study also discovered a moderate positive relationship between both leadership styles, namely transactional and transformational, and innovative performance. The study recommends that various workshops and seminars may be conducted to increase the practices of both leadership styles to enhance innovation in Pakistani Universities.
领导力在个人和组织的表现中起着重要作用。本文采用问卷调查的方法，研究了领导风格对巴基斯坦大学女性领导者创新绩效的影响。本文旨在：（a）发现女性所采用的领导风格；（b）发现领导风格与女性领导者创新绩效之间的关系。本研究涉及了来自旁遮普省（巴基斯坦的一个省）的公立和私立大学的几位女性领导者，包括教职员工、系主任、院长、协调员和主任。采用多阶段抽样方法选取了一百名女性领导者作为样本。在第一阶段，通过简单随机方法选择了五所公立和五所私立大学。在第二阶段，通过目的抽样方法从每所大学中选择了十位女性领导者（社会科学和基础科学部门各五位）。研究人员采用可靠的工具收集调查数据。使用 SPSS（版本 26）分析收集的数据。使用均值分数和皮尔逊相关系数来发现各个变量之间的关系。调查结果显示，大多数女性领导者在其所在的大学中采用了交易型领导风格。本研究还发现，交易型和变革型这两种领导风格与创新绩效之间存在适度的正相关关系。研究建议可以举办各种研讨会和研讨会，以增加这两种领导风格的实践，从而提高巴基斯坦大学的创新能力。
