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Wellness and Leadership in Higher Education: Leadership Styles and Organizational Well-Being in Zambian Colleges of Education
Jive Lubbungu (Kwame Nkrumah University, Zambia), Ireen Moonga (Mulungushi University, Zambia), Audrey Muyuni (Mulungushi University, Zambia), and Daniel K. Chola (Mulungushi University, Zambia)
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|Pages: 19
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7693-9.ch007
Abstract
This chapter examines some of the most widely accepted leadership styles deployed in Zambian colleges and their impact on employee well-being outcomes such as employee stress, well-being, productivity, turnover, and absenteeism. The leadership styles assessed include transactional, laissez-faire, autocratic, authoritarian, and transformational leadership. Qualitative comparative design is used to capture and understand the interplay between leadership styles and organisational well-being. The chapter will explain at length the advantages of more relational leadership styles (i.e., transformational leadership) in terms of reduced stress, turnover, and absenteeism in Zambian colleges of education.