The Moderating Effect of Government Support between Gender Egalitarianism, Assertiveness, Future Orientation, and Female Leadership Effectiveness: Empirical Study of Public Universities in Saudi Arabia

Rajeh Hamad Alajmi, Fais Bin Ahmad, Ali Ali Al-Ansi and Abdullahi Hassan Gorondutse
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Rajeh Hamad Alajmi: School of Business Management, University Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia,
Fais Bin Ahmad: School of Business Management, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia,
Ali Ali Al-Ansi: Tunku Puteri Intan Safinaz School of Accountancy, University Utara Malaysia, Sintok, Kedah, Malaysia
Abdullahi Hassan Gorondutse: School of Business Management, University Utara Malaysia, Malaysia.

International Review of Management and Marketing, 2017, vol. 7, issue 2, 390-402

Abstract: The underrepresentation of women in academic and administrative leadership roles is a global phenomenon. This study aimed to investigate the leadership effectiveness and the important factors that influence the women leadership effectiveness in the context of Saudi universities. There are still many obstacles face academic women leaders in universities. Among these obstacles, there is a limited authority of the women leaders, the centralization of decision making. Thus, this research investigates the impact of gender egalitarianism, assertiveness, and future orientation on the women leadership effectiveness in the public universities by taking government support as a moderating variable. A questionnaire survey was used to collect the data from 271 female academic leaders working in Saudi universities. The results found that gender egalitarianism, assertiveness, and future orientation have significant positive impact on leadership effectiveness. The value of this paper was in showing the significant of government support as a moderating variable for assertiveness, future orientation to enhance the women leadership effectiveness in Saudi universities

Keywords: Leadership Effectiveness; Gender Egalitarianism; Assertiveness; Future orientation; Government support. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I23 J1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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