Transformational Leadership And Job Satisfaction: A Higher Education Perspective

Abstract

The third-largest higher education system in the world is in India. Higher education framework has developed in a momentous manner, especially in the post-independence period, to get perhaps the biggest systems of its kind in the world. Even while India's higher education system has had its share of challenges, there are also opportunities to overcome these obstacles and improve the system overall. In this study, an attempt has been made to show the effect of Transformational Leadership on Job Satisfaction while
considering managing with Stress as mediator. Our analysis shows that Transformational Leadership is positively related with Job Satisfaction. This finding shows that academic personnel will be happier at their professions if they perceive their department heads to be more transformational. Also the leadership influences employee to cope up with the stress and thus influencing the Job satisfaction indirectly.