THE ROLE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADER IN PROMOTING ACADEMIC RESEARCH IN VIETNAM’S HIGHER EDUCATION Table of Contents ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .Error! Bookmark not defined. LIST OF TABLETS .Error! Bookmark not defined. LIST OF FIGURES .Error! Bookmark not defined. LIST OF ABBEREVIATIONS .Error! Bookmark not defined.Error! Bookmark not defined.
STATEMENT OF OGINALITY .Error! Bookmark not defined. Background of the Research. Research Aims and Objectives. The significance of the Research.
Organization of Chapters. 13 CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW. Vietnam’s Higher Education Background. The role of Academic Research in Vietnam’s Higher Education.
Implementing policies of Government to promote Academic Research. Leadership – A stimulate for continuous researching. The concept of Leadership. Definition of Transformational Leadership.
Characteristics of Transformational Leadership. Transformational Leadership effects on school performance. Transformational Leadership effects on motivating research on Higher Education. Academic Research – Improving the Individual Performance in research.
The concept of Academic Research. Type of Academic Research. The importance of Academic Research. Individual Performance represents Academic Research performance.
Employee Engagement – The moderator of relationship between Transformational Leadership and Individual Performance. The concept of Employee Engagement. The relationship between Transformational Leadership and Individual Performance. The relationship between Transformational Leadership and Employee Engagement.
The relationship between Employee Engagement and Individual Performance. Research Hypotheses and Framework. 76 CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY. Research Population and Sample size.
Data Collection Methods and Tools. Identification of Variables and build Measurement Scales. Transformational Leadership Measurement Scale. Employee Engagement Measurement Scale.
Individual Performance Measurement Scale. 97 CHAPTER 4: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Descriptive statistics of survey samples. Evaluate scale reliability.
Exploratory factor analysis (EFA). Analyzing EFA independent variables. EFA variable analysis. Analysis of EFA dependent variables.
Inspection of theoretical models and research hypotheses. “Centering” and creating interactive variables. Hierarchical regression analysis strategy. Verification of violations of necessary regression hypotheses.
Testing the relevance of the model. Assess the level of explanation of the model. Check the suitability of the model. Hypotheses test results.
130 CHAPTER 5: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION. Brief Synopsis of the Research. Conclusion of the Findings. Characteristics of Transformational Leadership style in Higher Education.
Research limitation and future development .Error! Bookmark not defined.Error! Bookmark not defined. ABSTRACT Higher education sector in Vietnam has always been considered most affected to sociality. Since the needs and expectations of society on the issue of the contribution for national intelligence that making education reform and innovation continuous. In particular, the issue of academic research has great importance in contributing intellectual property to the national and strengthen the standing position in international rankings of higher education facility.
To accomplish this, the role and responsibilities of the leader in the higher education institution is enormous. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine the appropriate leadership style to higher education institutions and the role of the leader in promoting academic research in universities. Excellent and effective leadership is needed to develop employees as a sustainable competitive advantage. Reality shows that leaders of organizations have difficulty in speeding up the performance of their followers.
Individual performance have been studied and evaluated in both scholarly and practical literature. Employee engagement is a moderator concept established in organizational theory, but it also offers a variety of views and theories. In summary, this study shows that the effectiveness in choosing the right type of leadership will help increase the performance of employees in the organization. Introduction Chapter one will cover the following sections: Background of the research, Problem statement, Research aims and objectives, Research questions, The significant of the study, Organization of chapters and Summary.
Background of the research will briefly introduce the topic of study and the object that will be studied. This section will provide information that is discussed throughout the paper. Therefore, the reader can understand the reason for conducting the study. Problem statement will provide actual current context, problems are encountered and it will be analyzed as well as given the results of this study (Mark, 2015).
Formulating research aims and objectives is one of the important aspects of the thesis. This section defines the scope, depth and overall direction of the study. The objective is simply to answer a question (Robert & Katie, 2017). However, that question has no simple answer and the answer can go deep and divided into lots of questions and solve each part separately (John, 2018).
With each question, the research objectives will change and research methods will change accordingly. The results of the research objectives provide the answer to the research question. From the discussion and review of the literature, the author proposes a conceptual framework to establish hypotheses include independent variable, intermediate variable and dependent variable (Robert, 2017). Establishing significance of the study is divided into two parts that are meaningful for research and meaning for practice.
This section highlights the importance of research for the other researches in the future. It provides information to the reader and the ways research will contribute. It also highlights the benefits this research brings to the community and the potential for other researchers in the field of leadership and higher education. In the introduction to the research method, the author will list the processes and tools used to collect and analyze the data.
The next step is to outline the processes used to collect and process the data systematically. Research methods clearly help the reader assess the overall reliability of the study. The research organization is to establish in brief the content of each chapter that is designed to achieve the objectives of the research paper, as well as the system in a scientific and easy-to-visual way for the followers. Finally, the summary will briefly summarize chapter one and introduce chapter two.
Background of the Research Leadership style is a key factor to the success of every organization. Leadership style reflects the vision of the leader, influences the staff, and decides to build a strategy to achieve the vision of the organization (Paul & Doug, 2018). Appropriate leadership style will motivate employees to achieve their goals, and even make them work harder to overcome their limits to achieve greater results for the organization. In addition, leadership style will also help employees improve their satisfaction, engagement and loyalty to the organization (Fil, 2019).
Human resources are always considered as a valuable asset of business and society. Today, organizations need not only high-quality human resources, but also desire to promote individual performance of employees (David, 2018). Individual performance is an important factor creating a competitive advantage for the organization. And how to motivate employees to improve individual performance is always a challenge for leaders.
The role of leaders in higher education institutions is not an easy task, so leaders should create links around them. When leaders treat their followers as excellent individuals and attract their hopes and desires, a dynamic spiral effect will emerge and be maintained throughout until meet the defined goal (Yulk, 2013). Employees will contribute to the organization more, they will increase motivation, thereby increasing productivity. This can lead to an effort for the organization towards innovation with shared views and commitment to a common vision.
Finally, individuals may be linked to complete the task "that they can reach a level of synergy in which the whole is greater than the sum of the parts" (Northouse, 2015). This study will focus on investigating the role of Transformational Leadership model in promoting academic research in institutions of higher education in Vietnam. The concept of "Transformational Leadership" will be analyzed in order to clarify its influence on the performance of each individual (Bass & Riggio, 2006). In addition, employee engagement will be considered as a moderator variable for the relationship between the transformational leader and an individual performance.
Therefore, the study will use case study to have investigated and analyzed. And the data will be collected to analyze and clarify the research questions of this investigation. Problem Statement The current context of higher education in Vietnam is changing, the role of leaders is expanding, and leaders are facing enormous challenges: globalization, the 4.0 revolution, the competition for quality human resources, government funding for education cuts by public debt and external debt increased. All of them put pressure on the university leaders (Nguyen Van Phuc, 2018).
A typical type of leadership in effective leadership will promote innovation and advancement in higher education and academic research. Therefore, an important function of effective leadership is to motivate employees toward academic research productivity (Joshua & Jamie, 2015). According to Ministry of Education and Training (2018), Vietnam now has nearly 300 universities and colleges. However, there are no higher education institutions in the top 500 worldwide and top 350 Asia.
The reason is that the amount of scientific research, or scientific journal articles do not meet the standards and international requirements set out. The problem in this study indicate the importance of the academic research for rating the quality of a university (VTV, 2018). To obtain the academic research of international standard, it requires the performance of individuals whose contributions in higher education institutions. Therefore, the role of leaders will impact to individual performance through the characteristics of leadership.
Types of leadership have been classified according to a number of principles in previous studies, such as transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style (Bass, 1990). In particular, the most cited and suggested theories are the transformational leadership styles. In recent years, transformational leadership styles have been proposed as an effective leadership style that can transform traditional management practices in the education field to improve team effectiveness (Klaus, 2015). Transformational leadership is defined as one of the leaders who creates positive and positive changes for those who follow more than other leadership styles because transformational leadership styles are using their influence for subordinate, while the transactional style use rewards or punishments based on the results of work (Michael, 2013).
This research aims to investigate the styles and approaches of transformational leadership, and the leadership behaviors that are relevant to the effectiveness of higher education. The research process consists of two separate tasks, the first being a systematic search of the literature that includes leadership styles related to employee engagement and individual performance in higher education studies. The second element is a series of surveys with scholars who have engaged in leadership research in higher education, or leadership in general. Research Aims and Objectives Setting objectives and aims as appropriate study is one of the most important aspects in the thesis.
The final result of the research goal provides the answer to the research question. Research objectives are often divided into several parts and dealt with separately. Moreover, the research objectives specify what needs to be studied, so it will include steps to address the research goal to achieve the expected results. In this study, the author identified One Aims and Five Objectives: Aims: Study the impact of transformational leadership that affects the individual performance in Vietnam’s higher education.
Objectives: - Demonstrate that the Idealized Influence Attribution (IA) of transformational leadership styles effects to individual performance. - Desmontrate that the Idealized Influence Behavior (IB) of transformational leadership styles positively related to individual performance. - Demonstrate that the Individualized Consideration (IC) of transformational leadership styles helps employees develop their strengths to change individual performance. - Demonstrate that the Inspirational Motivation (IM) of transformational leadership styles creates motivation to individual performance.
- Demonstrate that the Intellectual Stimulation (IS) of transformational leadership styles provides oppoirtunities for employees to increase individual performance. Research Questions A research question is the basic core of a research project or document review (Bill & Mark, 2017). It focuses on research, identifying methods and guiding all stages of learning, analysis and reporting.