PubData Leuphana Repository: Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy

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Resource type	Journal Article
Title(s)	Promoting leadership for learning in Nigeria: The interplay of leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy
DOI	10.48548/pubdata-1687
Handle	20.500.14123/1777
Creator	Ugwuanyi, Christian 0000-0003-2174-3674 Pietsch, Marcus 0000-0002-9836-6793
Abstract	Leadership for learning has emerged as a holistic leadership behaviour that combines aspects of instructional leadership, transformational leadership and shared leadership. Little is known about how this type of leadership develops and what antecedents are important. Following the rationales of Social Cognitive (Career) Theory and applying Chan and Drasgow's leader development model, we examine how leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy affect leadership for learning in Nigerian schools. We divide leaders’ self-efficacy into the belief that they have the necessary skills and abilities to be successful as leaders (leader self-regulatory self-efficacy) and the belief that the actions they take as leaders will have the desired effect (leader action self-efficacy). Using structural equation modelling, our results show that both leadership mastery experience and leader self-efficacy are relevant antecedents of leadership for learning, with self-efficacy mediating the effects of experience on leadership. Our results suggest efficiency–performance spirals and illustrate how important it is for the enactment of leadership for learning to believe in one's ability to competently perform various critical leadership actions.
Language	English
Keywords	Leader development; Leader self-efficacy; leadership for learning; School leader; Nigeria
Year of publication in PubData	2025
Publishing type	Parallel publication
Publication version	Published version
Date issued	2024-10-15
Creation context	Research
Published by	Medien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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