The Impact of Transformational Leadership on Academic Performance: The Mediating Roles of Work Agility and Academic Involvement

Abstract

The study explores the association between transformational leadership with academic performance through work agility and academic involvement. Green HRM practices on work engagement, aiming to uncover the underlying processes driving this connection. Using a cross-sectional correlational design, data were collected from 235 teachers and staff from higher educational institutes located in Quetta city, Pakistan. Participants completed the quantitative survey. The obtained results revealed that transformational leadership is positively associated academic performance. Secondly, work agility and academic involvement emerged as stronger mediators between transformational leadership and academic performance. Hypothesis testing were done by using process macro technique recommended by Andrew Hayes on SPSS version 29. This study demonstrates that transformational leadership enhances academic performance, work involvement culture, elucidating its mechanisms for satisfying needs and motivating while supporting and empowers customizing work to intrinsically drive goals, performance, and engagement as motivated employees engage more in educational activities.