Teachers' transformational leadership and students' employability development: A social cognitive career perspective

Abstract

Higher education policy and talent training are failing to meet the ever-changing expectations of employers and society in Taiwan, resulting in a gap between university education and employment. We used social cognitive career theory to explore the relationships between problem-based learning, teachers' transformational leadership, and students' self-efficacy and employability. Participants were 619 undergraduates from 12 Taiwanese higher education institutions. We performed structural equation modeling and found that there were significant positive correlations between students' self-efficacy, problem-based learning, and employability, along with teachers' transformational leadership. Further, problem-based learning and the students' self-efficacy were key mediators of the relationship between teachers' transformational leadership and students' employability. Implications are discussed for related issues and future research involving models of students' employability.

The Role of Transformational Leadership, Self Efficacy and Professional Competence on Knowledge Sharing and Lecture Performance

“…Lecturers who can increase self-efficacy are not only in improving personal quality, but more on self-improvement and increasing self-confidence in the abilities possessed by lecturers so that they are able to increase the achievement of lecturer performance to the maximum. This is in accordance with the statement of Suhana et al (2019), Wang et al (2020), Wu et al (2020) that the importance of self-efficacy will affect the effort required and ultimately can be seen from its performance. This study also supports the research conducted by , Rahmad et al (2021), Qureshi et al (2019) which found that self-efficacy has an effect on employee performance.…”

“…With the higher professional competence, the level of ability or skill of the lecturer will be higher, so that it will have an impact on achieving maximum lecturer performance in the teaching and learning process. This is in accordance with the statement of Wang et al (2020), Wu et al (2020) that professional competence is a pillar that will place the bureaucracy as an effective machine for the government and as a parameter of apparatus skills in achieving one's performance. Obeidat et al (2016), Praditya et al (2020) explains that competence is a rational behavior to achieve the required goals in accordance with the expected conditions.…”

“…Performance . This result is not in line with the research conducted by Rahman et al (2018), Roberts et al (2005), Suhana et al (2019), Wang et al (2020), Wu et al (2020) that Transformational Leadership has a positive and significant effect on Lecture Performance…”

“…According to Rahmad et al (2021), Qureshi et al (2019) that knowledge sharing is able to contribute knowledge to other employees so that they are able to involve different roles related to providing and receiving knowledge. Sharing knowledge will increase understanding among fellow members because they are able to contribute knowledge so that they are able to support new ideas in improving organizational performance and will ultimately find the best work process for the organization.The research results of Suhana et al (2019), Wang et al (2020) shows that knowledge sharing has an influence on employee performance. Likewise with Fen Lin (2007) that knowledge sharing has a positive effect on HR performance.…”

“…Relationship between Transformational Leadership and Lecture Performance Transformational Leadership Theory by Novitasari et al (2021), Obeidat et al (2016 stated that Transformational Leadership will have a positive effect on increasing Lecture Performance. According to research conducted by Wang et al (2020), Wu et al (2020) stated that increasing Transformational Leadership will encourage an increase in Lecture Performance variables. conducted by stated that an increase in the Transformational Leadership variable will encourage an increase in the Lecture Performance variable.According to research conducted by Roberts et al (2005) stated that Transformational Leadership has a significant influence on the Lecture Performance variable.Based on a study of theory and previous studies, the following hypotheses are formulated: Hypothesis 1: There is a positive influence between Transformational Leadership and Lecture Performance…”