The Reality of Applying Visionary Leadership among the Heads of Academic Departments at the University of Jeddah

Abstract

The current study aimed at determining the level of visionary leadership implementation among the heads of academic departments at the University of Jeddah. It also sought to investigate the barriers and requirements for implementing this leadership style in academic departments and verify the existence of any statistically significant differences in the reality of applying visionary leadership attributed to the study variables (gender - experience - academic rank). The study used the descriptive approach based on a questionnaire as the main method for data collection. The results of the study revealed that the level of visionary leadership implementation among the heads of academic departments at the University of Jeddah came with a moderate response degree. Requirements for applying visionary leadership came with a (high) response degree. The results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences at the level of significance of (0.05) in the reality of applying visionary leadership among the heads of academic departments at the University of Jeddah, attributed to the study variables (gender - experience - academic rank).