Exploring the Motivation for and Barriers to Academic Leadership among Malaysian Polytechnic Lecturers of FELDA Settlement Background  

Oleh:

Anidah ; Taib, Mohd ; Najmuddin, Syed ; Hanipah ; Kalthom ; Shamsuri ; Zahir, Mohammad ; Fadzil, Mohd

Jenis: Article from Proceeding
Dalam koleksi: The International Symposium on Social Sciences (TISSS) and Hong Kong International Conference on Education, Psychology and Society (HKICEPS) at Hongkong, December 2013, page 199-208.
Topik: Academic Leadership; Malaysian Polytechnics; Motivation; Barriers; FELDA
Fulltext: Hong Kong-Conference 27.pdf (391.04KB)

Isi artikel

This paper reports the findings of a study on the motivation for and barriers to effective academic leadership among Malaysian polytechnic lecturers of FELDA settlement background. In general, this study is to examine the academic leadership potential among Malaysian polytechnic lecturers notably in the fields of teaching and learning, research and innovation, academic writing, consultation as well as community services. Specifically, this study aims at exploring the motivation for and barriers to effective academic leadership among Malaysian polytechnic lecturers of FELDA settlement background. To achieve the objectives of this study, in-depth focused group interviews were conducted among 45 respondents. The respondents were selected based on the analysis done during the quantitative stage. The study found that motivation for effective academic leadership can be grouped under three main themes; (i) the organizational and managerial issues, (ii) organizational culture and environment (iii) personal experience and quality issues. Furthermore, the study has identified personal and family issues as the main barriers to effective academic leadership among Malaysian polytechnic lecturers. The findings are useful to the Department of Polytechnic Education, Ministry of Education, Malaysia. These findings show the need to equip its lecturers, particularly in academic leadership, so that the polytechnic lecturers are competent enough to actualize the transformation agenda of the Malaysian Higher Education. Further implications on FELDA in transforming its human capital are also discussed in the final section of this paper.

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