Measuring leadership traits with academic performance among higher education students rated by raters

Pages: 435-439
Kanika Garg, Ishaq Ahmad Dar and Mridula Mishra (Department of School of Business, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab)

In today’s competitive and challenging environment, leadership in higher education comes to term challenges. Organizations today face more challenges like change in society, markets, customers, competition and technology (Laurie & Heifetz, 2001) so that corporate sector will demand of an innovative kind of leadership. So this paper examines the leadership traits among the higher education students (Management, Engineering, & Biotechnology) and which traits are rated higher and also to find the relationship among leadership trait and academic performance of the higher education students. The data was collected by questionnaire on 5 point Likert scale developed by Peter North house (2013) with 306 students of from higher education. The result shows that there are four traits out of 14 (Trustworthy, Friendly, Self-confident) rated higher by the rating as a rater by the higher education Students. Study also shows that there is no significant relationship between leadership traits and academic performance of the higher education students.