RELEVENCE OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

Higher Educational Institutions play an imperative role in shaping minds and nurturing talents. With the rapidly changing world this sector is facing several challenges with respect to providing world class education with inculcating human values. Hence the leadership in these higher educational institutions is of paramount importance. Plethora of research in finding out importance and proving the effects of Transformational leadership in business organizations has been carried out which proved that the leaders with Transformational style have great impact on their followers. This study is an effort to establish the significance of Transformational leadership in Higher Educational Institutions. It also addresses the implication and present extensive call of Transformational leadership and its empirical relevance to Higher Educational Institutions. The authors have strong belief that these institutions should take up the Transformational leadership style to drive efficiently and successfully as they have special role to play in materializing their mission.