International Journal of Research Studies in Education
CollabWritive Special Issue
Volume 13 Issue 7
Available Online: 15 June 2024
Author/s:
Li, Nansen
Graduate School, Lyceum of the Philippines University – Batangas (423206781@qq.com)
Abstract:
Leaders are an important component of an organization and play an indispensable role in its positioning. The style, skills, and behavior of a leader have a direct impact on an organization. Chinese universities, as an important component of China’s education industry, are important carriers of its development. The leadership style, skills, and behavior of Chinese university managers have a significant impact on university management. This study adopts a combination of questionnaire survey and descriptive research methods, and through literature review and empirical research, explores the impact of leadership style, skills, and behavior of Chinese university managers on Chinese universities. Based on the characteristics of leadership style, skills, and behavior in Chinese universities, a management development plan is proposed. The participants of this study were Chinese university administrators, teachers, etc., and a total of 400 valid questionnaires were collected. The participants are mostly male, aged 30-39, with a university degree and 6-10 years of work experience. The study used SPSS for descriptive analysis, analysis of variance, and regression analysis. In terms of leadership style, respondents unanimously believe that effective leadership giving orders and clear procedures, providing guidance without pressure, are key to becoming a good leader, and allowing subordinates to set their own task indicators. In terms of leadership skills, respondents do believe that filling out forms and handling details are easy for them, knowing in advance how people will respond to new ideas or suggestions, and being able to effectively solve problems. In terms of leadership behavior, respondents agreed to work as hard as anyone in the work group, listen to the ideas and suggestions of the work group, make decisions based on the suggestions of the work group, support the work group’s efforts, explain rules and expectations to the work group, and patiently discuss the concerns of the work group members. The research results indicate a highly significant relationship between leadership style, skills, and behavior. When grouping participants based on their personal data variables, there were no significant differences in their responses to leadership style, skills, and behavior. This means that the leadership style, skills, and behavior of Chinese university managers collectively reflect their leadership abilities and affect the quality of university management, with no significant differences in their leadership styles. Based on the influence of leaders on organizations, this study takes Chinese university managers as the research object and innovatively analyzes their theoretical impact on organizations from the perspective of organizational leadership. Starting from improving the quality of organizational management, practical and feasible suggestions have been put forward to enhance the management level of Chinese universities. This not only provides reference and theoretical support for improving the quality of organizational management and scientific development in Chinese universities, but also provides inspiration and experience for how to enhance leadership, reduce the impact of leadership style, skills, and behavior on organizational management, and provide more targeted suggestions for university managers to improve the quality and efficiency of university management.
Keywords: leadership style, leadership skills, leadership behavior
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2024.24640
Cite this article:
Li, N. (2024). Leadership style, skills, and behavior of Chinese university administrators. International Journal of Research Studies in Education, 13(7), 133-145. https://doi.org/10.5861/ijrse.2024.24640