This research focuses on perception of academic staffs’ on leadership styles of university administration. A sample of four hundred twenty three academic staffs from three universities is taken using proportionate stratified random sampling technique with colleges serving as a basis of stratification. Perceived leadership is measured by the response of academic staffs to twenty four items measuring four constructs of leadership style: directive leadership, coaching leadership, facilitating leadership and delegating leadership.
It was found that the leaders of EHEIs are perceived as adopting all the dimensions of leadership style studied: directive, coaching, facilitating and delegating leadership style. Moreover, there is no difference in the way male and female academic staffs, single and married academic staffs, academic staff with administrative position and those without administrative position, academic staffs of different academic ranks, academic staff with different academic qualification, academic staff of different religion, and place of birth (origin) perceived leadership style of their supervisors. There is, however, statistically significant difference in the way academic staffs from different colleges and departments perceived their supervisor.
Perceived leadership style, directive leadership, coaching leadership, facilitating leadership, delegating leadership
