Moral Leadership, Shared Values, Employee Engagement, and Staff Job Performance in the University Value Chain

Myriad of discourses pouring from university podiums and social platforms have beeninundated with administrative and governance matters majorly. Not much has been echoedabout morality concerns in Nigerian tertiary institutions. Besides, history is replete with quitea handful of literature in this area. However, none of the prior studies has developed such arobust construct on the subject so as to capture the multiple simultaneous essences of sharedvalues and employee engagement in moral leadership-staff Job performance link. The studyinvolved a population of ۳۲۵۷ academic and non-academic staff from which a sample size of۳۲۷ was determined through simple random sampling. Drawing on stakeholder and socialexchange theories and using regression model and structural equation modelling as analyticalbases, results have vilified strong evidence of positive mediating effect of shared values andjob engagement in moral leadership-staff job performance relationship except a unit construct(authentic leadership) that exhibited negative association. Finding has further foreclosed thatstaff’s overall job performance will improve with panoptic constructs of moral leadershipwhereas fragmented approach will only lead to sub-optimal performance. Study proposes aninclusive framework connecting the modified constructs of moral leadership, shared values,employee engagement, and job performance of universities’ staff. It is stressed that universityleadership obsessed with integrity found on strong ethical fibber will earn staff’s trust andconfidence and sustain university’s reputation for enduring leadership that is value laden.

کلیدواژه ها:

Moral leadership ، Job performance ، University Value chain ، Employee engagement ، Shared Value