摘要：This study examine the extent of Department Heads in Malaysian polytechnics employ multi-dimensional leadership, based on Bolman and Deal's leadership framework, and how it affects lecturers’ commitment towards the polytechnics and students. This study analyzed the ratings of 76 heads of department and 841 lecturers 24 polytechnics. Hierarchical Linear Modeling was used to determine if there is a statistically significant relationship between the perceived leadership orientations of the department heads and the self-perceived commitment of polytechnic lecturers. The findings suggest that polytechnics’ heads of departments practices multi-dimensional leadership, to which human resource dimension being the dominant frame. In addition, a significant positive relations were found between lecturers’ commitment to their polytechnics and cultural leadership frame. However, no significant positive relationship were found between the department heads’ leadership frame and the lecturers’ commitment to the students.
关键词：multi-dimensional leadership;leadership frames;lecturer commitment;multilevel analysis;hierarchical linear modeling
