Paul Balwant

University of the West Indies, St. Augustine | UWI · Department of Management Studies

Researchers have shown that transformational leadership is applicable to higher education teaching, that is, transformational instructor-leadership. However, such research is fractionated across diverse fields. To address the fractionated literature, the purpose of the current study was to conduct a meta-analytic review of transformational instruct...

Leadership theory can provide a route for investigating teaching via the concept of instructor leadership. Instructor leadership is defined as a process whereby instructors exert intentional influence over students to guide, structure and facilitate classroom activities and relationships in a class. Instructor leadership in higher education researc...

Despite the popularity of student engagement and, by association, student disengagement, the academic literature is unclear about the meaning of these terms. This review extends existing conceptual studies of student engagement by offering clear definitions and conceptualisations of both student engagement and disengagement in the classroom context...

Purpose Using the lenses of social exchange and reactance theories, this study examines the relationships between abusive supervision and both turnover intentions and job satisfaction. The moderating role of employee depression in the relationship between abusive supervision and these specific work outcomes is also investigated, by incorporating th...

Student engagement and burnout have received considerable attention from higher education researchers, but there is a dearth of research on the relationships between engagement and burnout dimensions. Accordingly, the present study aims to investigate the relationships between (a) student engagement dimensions, (b) student burnout dimensions, and (...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are instrumental to most economies and leadership offers a means for SMEs to face today's business challenges. Despite the need for effective leadership in SMEs, researchers rarely examine leadership theories in this context. The SME context is characterized by proximal conditions that are conducive to role-model...

Leadership studies require that students improve not only their leadership literacy but also their leadership skills and abilities. For this reason, leadership educators must embed deep learning approaches into leadership curricula. One deep learning approach that immerses students in concrete experiences that facilitate reflection and action is ex...

While destructive leadership has been investigated primarily in corporate contexts, research has shown that such leadership may also exist in instructor-student relationships in higher education. In light of this, researchers have very recently developed a 13-item measure of destructive instructor-leadership that is well-aligned to the theoretical...

Purpose As group work is becoming more common in the classroom, teamwork as an andragogical tool continues to be problematic for students in management programs. The purpose of this paper is to determine how university students perceive teamwork and to identify teamwork problems along with potential solutions. Design/methodology/approach A triangu...

In higher education, one commonly used teaching approach that is intended to develop deep learning is that of the ‘Oxford’ tutorial—a personalized Socratic approach in which an instructor discusses course-related issues with a handful of students. Even though this conventional tutorial model is well supported in the literature, it may be neglected...

This paper outlines an experiential learning exercise designed to improve business students’ ability to apply flexible leadership. The exercise is a two-step process for which students complete a simulation and then write a self-reflective essay. Two mixed-methods studies were conducted to investigate the overall learning experience and changes in...

The change leadership literature is unsymmetrical with a heavy focus on constructive leadership theories and a dearth of research on the potential value of destructive leadership. In light of this imbalance, the purpose of the media review was to provide a pragmatic perspective on Gordon Ramsay's use of destructive leadership and its potential usef...

Purpose The purpose of the present study is to investigate mediating mechanisms in the relationship between the training and development climate at higher education institutions and administrative employees' productivity. Organizational identification theory and the job demands-resources model are used to investigate supervisor support, employees'...

Crises are inevitable in today's corporate world. This paper outlines a crisis leadership exercise to help business students understand the complexities of external corporate communications. This exercise is suited to class sizes of approximately 30 students, but variations can be used for larger classes. Students are placed into groups and use a p...

A body of research on instructors’ use of leadership behaviors in higher education teaching, often called instructor-leadership, is gaining momentum. Despite the field’s growth, the practical recommendations emerging from empirical investigations of instructor-leadership remain largely underdeveloped. In particular, the most popular practical impli...

Drawing on social exchange theory, this study investigated (a) justice as a mechanism in the relationship between workplace bullying and organizational commitment, organizational citizenship behavior, and turnover intent; (b) perceived organizational support as a moderator of the mediating relationships; and (c) reactions of both targets and bystan...

There is a dearth of research on antecedents of organizational embeddedness, and the small body of research that exists rarely focuses on (1) how personal and situational factors interact and (2) public-sector organizations in lesser-developed nations. In light of these research gaps, the purpose of this paper is to investigate (1) personality as a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: investigate job resources as a moderator in the relationship between transformational leadership and employee engagement in service sector organizations, and investigate the relative importance of each dimension of job resources in relation to employee engagement. Design/methodology/approach Quantitati...

Background: Research on workplace sexual harassment has focused largely on its direct antecedents and consequences. In contrast, few studies unravel mechanisms through which sexual harassment is related to organizational outcomes. Objective: Following affective events theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate mental health as a mechani...

In higher education teaching, a leadership lens is used to conceptualize teaching quality as ‘instructor-leadership’. Instructor-leadership research has largely focused on transactional and transformational leadership. But, increasing student distress along with the existence of mediocrity and abusiveness in higher education teaching warrants the s...

Researchers have long recognized that instructors use leadership behaviours in higher education teaching. This body of research, often called instructor-leadership, is gaining momentum with a shift from examining antecedents and consequences of instructor-leadership towards a deeper investigation of mediators and moderators. In spite of the field’s...

The author aimed to show that (a) transformational leadership is related to project teams’ performance via work engagement and (b) leader distance moderates the relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement. The proposed moderated mediation model was tested using 180 students in an undergraduate management course and working...

The conceptualization of destructive leadership has received increasing attention in recent times. Accordingly, researchers have developed a theoretical model of destructive leadership that highlights two manifestations as follows: (1) leading followers towards goals that contradict the organization’s interests and (2) the use of harmful methods in...

Researchers are becoming increasingly interested in the use of transformational leadership theory in higher education teaching (often referred to as transformational instructor-leadership). Much of this body of research investigates a direct association between transformational instructor-leadership and student outcomes. In the present study, we ta...

Research on leadership and transformational leadership has largely focused on supervisor-employee dynamics, which are characterized by traditional hierarchical structures. However, project teams also appear conducive to transformational leadership. The aims of this study are to show that (a) transformational leadership is related to project teams’...

Despite the popularity of absenteeism in general as a research topic, school teacher absenteeism has received only moderate interest. Over the past decade, school teacher absenteeism has been becoming increasingly problematic in Trinidad. To address this issue, this study aims to provide policy implications based on socio-demographic predictors of...

Leadership theory can provide a route for investigating teaching via the concept of instructor-leadership. Instructor-leadership is defined as a process whereby instructors exert intentional influence over students to guide, structure, and facilitate classroom activities and relationships in a class. Instructor-leadership in higher education resear...

Instructor-leadership can be defined as the process by which teachers direct classroom activities so as to influence students’ engagement and achievement. Instructor-leadership in higher education research has focused on the dominant theory of transformational leadership. This paper proposes a context-sensitive measure of transformational leadershi...