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 policyi mplementation in the institutions. Scholars fear that the gap in policy implementation maynegatively impact graduate employability skills and achieving sustainable goals. This paperexamines the level of organizational resources in terms of human, materia l and financialresources and leadership styles such as democratic, transactional and autocratic leadershipstyles as factors that can affect policy implementation in public and private tertiaryeducational institutions. It was recommended that administrat ors should be trained onmodern ways of implementing government policies. Also, security and corruption needserious government intervention for effective policy implementation on campuses.