Organization Resources and Leadership Styles as Factors Affecting Policy Implementation and Reforms in Higher Educational Institutions

Abstract

In the bid to develop tertiary education, successive governments have been initiating policies, laws, reforms and innovations. However, there have been complaints about actual policy implementation in the institutions. Scholars fear that the gap in policy implementation may negatively impact graduate employability skills and achieving sustainable goals. This paper examines the level of organizational resources in terms of human, material and financial resources and leadership styles such as democratic, transactional and autocratic leadership styles as factors that can affect policy implementation in public and private tertiary educational institutions. It was recommended that administrators should be trained on modern ways of implementing government policies. Also, security and corruption need serious government intervention for effective policy implementation on campuses.