Afulah Namatovu

2 Publications in AERD

Author Publications

Socially responsible leadership and employee's work passion in public universities in Uganda: the mediating effect of psychological safety

By Mahadih Kyambade

The major purpose of this study was to find out the impact of Socially Responsible Leadership on employee's work passion with mediating role of psychological safety among a sample of 214 permanent faculty members and administrative staff of Public Universities in Uganda. A self-administered questionnaire was distributed among the participants for data collection. Data analysis was done by using SPSS software program, version 23.0. Pearson correlation coefficient and Mediation analysis by using 'PROCESS' were applied to find out the association between Socially Responsible Leadership, psychological safety and employee's work passion as well as the mediating effect of psychological safety between Socially Responsible Leadership and employee's work passion. The study clearly signified the positive link of Socially Responsible Leadership with psychological safety and work passion. Moreover, the mediation analysis showed that psychological safety partially mediated this link. These findings incite the importance of Socially Responsible Leadership in the organizations by exhibiting that employee's feeling about psychologically safety which makes them more passionate about work. This study guides the leaders, managers and supervisors that need to pay more attention to behavior at the workplace. Moreover, this study indicates that psychological safety of the employees is strongly affected by the ethical behavior of leader which in return increases the work passion of the employees.

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Bridging the gender gap: analyzing women's participation and leadership representation in university governance

By Mahadih Kyambade

The purpose of this article is to investigate the connection between female leadership representation in Uganda's public universities and gender participation. The study's design was cross-sectional and quantitative. To provide the data, 280 employees answered a survey using a questionnaire. To analyze the data, a fourth-generation smart partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was employed. To gather data, questionnaires were employed. The results demonstrated that the representation of women in leadership positions in Uganda's public universities is influenced by two aspects of gender participation: level of involvement and gender gap. By illuminating whether gender participation factors influence women leadership representation in Uganda's public universities, this study advances our knowledge of women academic leadership. This suggests that women's representation in leadership roles is based in large part on gender participation. This study uniquely explores the impact of gender participation on women's leadership representation in Uganda's public universities by focusing on two key factors: level of involvement and the gender gap. Using fourth-generation Smart PLS-SEM analysis, it provides fresh insights into how these elements shape women's leadership roles, especially within the under-studied Ugandan context. This research offers a new perspective on the mechanisms influencing gender representation in leadership.

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