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Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study

Malaysia is encouraging the involvement and participation of women in developing its economy and in transforming it to become a developed nation by the year 2020. However, studies that look into the attributes of successful women business leaders are scarce. Hence, it is the focus of this paper to r...

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Main Authors: Abdullah, Zarifah, Saad, Natrah, Amran, Noor Afza, Ibrahim, Marhaiza
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Language:English
Published: UUM Press 2020
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HF Commerce
Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29968/1/JBMA%2010%2001%202020%201-27.pdf
https://doi.org/10.32890/jbma2020.10.1.1
https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29968/
https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/jbma/article/view/11031
https://doi.org/10.32890/jbma2020.10.1.1
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spelling my.uum.repo.299682023-11-27T09:10:59Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29968/ Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study Abdullah, Zarifah Saad, Natrah Amran, Noor Afza Ibrahim, Marhaiza HF Commerce Malaysia is encouraging the involvement and participation of women in developing its economy and in transforming it to become a developed nation by the year 2020. However, studies that look into the attributes of successful women business leaders are scarce. Hence, it is the focus of this paper to reveal the attributes of prominent women business leaders and their respective leadership styles. Three (3) prominent women business leaders from various industries participated in this study and data were gathered through qualitative semi-structured interviews. It was found that the attributes possessed by these participants are similar to their male counterparts. The only differences between men and women business leaders are in terms of (i) the amount of focus time spent between domestic chores and work, and (ii) the motherly/sisterly approach portrayed by the participants, which is unique to women business leaders. The participants demonstrated three styles of leadership, namely paternalistic, transformational, and participative. UUM Press 2020 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc4_by https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29968/1/JBMA%2010%2001%202020%201-27.pdf Abdullah, Zarifah and Saad, Natrah and Amran, Noor Afza and Ibrahim, Marhaiza (2020) Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study. Journal of Business Management and Accounting (JBMA), 10 (1). pp. 1-27. ISSN 2231-9298 (e2636-9249) https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/jbma/article/view/11031 https://doi.org/10.32890/jbma2020.10.1.1 https://doi.org/10.32890/jbma2020.10.1.1
institution Universiti Utara Malaysia
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topic HF Commerce
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Abdullah, Zarifah
Saad, Natrah
Amran, Noor Afza
Ibrahim, Marhaiza
Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study
description Malaysia is encouraging the involvement and participation of women in developing its economy and in transforming it to become a developed nation by the year 2020. However, studies that look into the attributes of successful women business leaders are scarce. Hence, it is the focus of this paper to reveal the attributes of prominent women business leaders and their respective leadership styles. Three (3) prominent women business leaders from various industries participated in this study and data were gathered through qualitative semi-structured interviews. It was found that the attributes possessed by these participants are similar to their male counterparts. The only differences between men and women business leaders are in terms of (i) the amount of focus time spent between domestic chores and work, and (ii) the motherly/sisterly approach portrayed by the participants, which is unique to women business leaders. The participants demonstrated three styles of leadership, namely paternalistic, transformational, and participative.
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author Abdullah, Zarifah
Saad, Natrah
Amran, Noor Afza
Ibrahim, Marhaiza
author_facet Abdullah, Zarifah
Saad, Natrah
Amran, Noor Afza
Ibrahim, Marhaiza
author_sort Abdullah, Zarifah
title Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study
title_short Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study
title_full Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study
title_fullStr Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study
title_full_unstemmed Leadership Styles and Attributes of Prominent Women Business Leaders: A Case Study
title_sort leadership styles and attributes of prominent women business leaders: a case study
publisher UUM Press
publishDate 2020
url https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29968/1/JBMA%2010%2001%202020%201-27.pdf
https://doi.org/10.32890/jbma2020.10.1.1
https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/29968/
https://e-journal.uum.edu.my/index.php/jbma/article/view/11031
https://doi.org/10.32890/jbma2020.10.1.1
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