The study aimed at investigating the relationship between management leadership processes and lecturers’ job effectiveness in higher institutions in Cross River State, Nigeria. The ex-post facto research design was adopted for this study. The population of the study consists of all lecturers and students in higher institutions in Cross River State, the population stood at 1744 lecturers. The stratified random sampling technique was adopted for the study. The sample size of the study stood at 610 lecturers. A total of 1830 students from the institutions were purposively selected to respond to items that measures lecturers’ job effectiveness. One research hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance using the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient analysis. Based on the result, the study recommended among other things that, institutions management must consider their leadership processes as it is a critical factor in achieving productivity in tertiary educational system.