International Journal of African and Asian Studies www.iiste.org ISSN 2409-6938 An International Peer-reviewed Journal Vol.17, 2016 36 The Impact of Leadership Styles on Academicians’ Commitment in Higher Educational Institutions Muhammad Saqib Khan_PhD 1 Dr. Siraj-ud-Din 2 Irfanullah Khan_PhD 3 Shazia Nasrullah_PhD 4 1. Department of Business Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan 2. Chairman, Department of Management Sciences, Khushal Khan Khattak University, Karak 3. Department of Public Administration, Gomal University, Dera Ismail Khan 4. Department of Education, Qurtaba University of Science & Technology, Peshawar Abstract Education is considered as a viable tool for developing human capacities and capabilities towards eliminating threats that may make the environment secured. The teacher as the implementer of the academic curriculum is central in achieving the aims and objectives of using education as a tool for inculcation into the learner, knowledge, skills and attitude that will lead to preserving the environment thereby ensuring security. Leadership has turned out to be an intriguing point for specialists. Various agents have concentrated on leadership styles in diverse societies, occupations, hierarchical settings. By and by, it was once in a while inspected among teaching faculty members of higher education institutes/universities. The early studies concentrated on the identities of the pioneers or on their conduct. Later studies are concentrating on a full scope of leadership styles, for example, transformational and transactional leadership styles. Keywords: Leadership Styles, Academicians, Commitment, Higher Educational Institutions 1. INTRODUCTION Learning and education are the foremost necessities of the humankind since the inception of this world. An educated society is an indicator of social development which has a vast impact upon the economic growth as well. The educational status of an individual and the society as a whole is a prime obligation of the state that plans, legislates, finances, facilitates and even looks after all the proceedings in this regard. In the education sector, there are state officials and the public representatives those who are responsible for planning, implementation, development and dissemination of the policies for the best interests and wants of the people (Zakeer, Khokar & Irfan., 2014). In the developing countries like Pakistan, the education sector has been persistently ignored rather neglected in all respects hitherto. Political instability, short sighted policies, rampant corruption, favoritism, inadequate budgetary allocation and last but not the least is the absence of political will and decision on the part of the leadership are the main reasons behind the above said phenomenon. In Pakistan, the education division has remained the casualty of carelessness with respect to every one of the individuals who are in charge of the matters relating with this area. The status of the education segment is one of the noteworthy pointers of the social advancement as it places a vital part in building a wellbeing society prompting a sound personality and eventually a steady economy (Saqib, Irfan, Zakeer & Farhat, 2014). In a matter of seconds, the indifferent circumstance winning in the education related offices is telling upon the soundness of the whole country in all regards. In such manner, the obligation falls upon the shoulders of all the concerned particularly individuals in charge specifically the leadership. In spite of the fact that, the issues are age-long rather dug in yet a devoted and submitted leadership can resolve the circumstance through complete and very much purposeful endeavors (Saqib, Irfan, Qamar & Raqibaaz, 2015). There is a critical need to arrange and execute certain all around agreed measures to the evaluation of developments to draw out the entire framework from the grip of the norm stamped by dormancy, lack of care and aloofness. The point and center of all these inventive measures rests upon the smooth and convenient procurement of all the education administrations to the individuals who look for them. 2. LITERATUR REVIEW 2.1 Existing Research The present work presented the relevant background literature for this study. It summarized the major streams of research on which this study was based on the transformational and transactional leadership theory and Meyer and Allen (1991) integrated into their model. The first section was the leadership; in this study the transformational and transactional leadership theories were applied. The second section described the organizational commitment, its antecedents and theoretical background, which included the three-component model of organizational commitment.