Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances

As the global business environment becomes increasingly competitive, the manager’s leadership style is gaining importance to drive employees’ efficiencies and productivity levels. Employees are the key drivers of the organization. Managers are expected to demonstrate strong leadership that can boost...

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Main Authors: Tan, Bee Wen, Ho, Theresa C. F., Yus Kelana, Beni Widarman, Othman, Rafidah, Syed, Obed Rashdi
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89691/
http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i9/6269
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spelling my.utm.896912021-02-22T06:00:36Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89691/ Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances Tan, Bee Wen Ho, Theresa C. F. Yus Kelana, Beni Widarman Othman, Rafidah Syed, Obed Rashdi HB Economic Theory As the global business environment becomes increasingly competitive, the manager’s leadership style is gaining importance to drive employees’ efficiencies and productivity levels. Employees are the key drivers of the organization. Managers are expected to demonstrate strong leadership that can boost employees’ performances and direct followers to achieve organization goals. This study was conducted to discover the relationship between leadership styles and employees’ job performances. Specifically, this paper aims to identify the degree of influence among the three types of leadership styles namely, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and thought leadership on employees’ job performances in the Malaysian private sector. Researchers have conducted many studies on transformational and transactional leadership theories adopted from Full Range Leadership Model developed by (Bass & Avolio, 1994). However, thought leadership role has started to draw much attention on how leadership styles affect employees’ job performances. This article also aims to provide an alternative view that distinguishes from previous researches which focus on different leadership styles used by managers to improve employees’ job performances in different settings. A conceptual framework has been developed to examine the impact of the three types of leadership styles on employees’ job performances. Human Resource Management Academic Research Society 2019 Article PeerReviewed Tan, Bee Wen and Ho, Theresa C. F. and Yus Kelana, Beni Widarman and Othman, Rafidah and Syed, Obed Rashdi (2019) Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances. International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 9 (9). pp. 55-65. ISSN 2222-6990 http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i9/6269
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topic HB Economic Theory
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
Tan, Bee Wen
Ho, Theresa C. F.
Yus Kelana, Beni Widarman
Othman, Rafidah
Syed, Obed Rashdi
Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances
description As the global business environment becomes increasingly competitive, the manager’s leadership style is gaining importance to drive employees’ efficiencies and productivity levels. Employees are the key drivers of the organization. Managers are expected to demonstrate strong leadership that can boost employees’ performances and direct followers to achieve organization goals. This study was conducted to discover the relationship between leadership styles and employees’ job performances. Specifically, this paper aims to identify the degree of influence among the three types of leadership styles namely, transformational leadership, transactional leadership, and thought leadership on employees’ job performances in the Malaysian private sector. Researchers have conducted many studies on transformational and transactional leadership theories adopted from Full Range Leadership Model developed by (Bass & Avolio, 1994). However, thought leadership role has started to draw much attention on how leadership styles affect employees’ job performances. This article also aims to provide an alternative view that distinguishes from previous researches which focus on different leadership styles used by managers to improve employees’ job performances in different settings. A conceptual framework has been developed to examine the impact of the three types of leadership styles on employees’ job performances.
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author Tan, Bee Wen
Ho, Theresa C. F.
Yus Kelana, Beni Widarman
Othman, Rafidah
Syed, Obed Rashdi
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Ho, Theresa C. F.
Yus Kelana, Beni Widarman
Othman, Rafidah
Syed, Obed Rashdi
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title Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances
title_short Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances
title_full Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances
title_fullStr Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances
title_full_unstemmed Leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances
title_sort leadership styles in influencing employees’ job performances
publisher Human Resource Management Academic Research Society
publishDate 2019
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/89691/
http://dx.doi.org/10.6007/IJARBSS/v9-i9/6269
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