Do you believe the transformational leader's role in engaging employees at the workplace? An evidence in Malaysia
Leadership style is one of the factors that cause employees' unhappiness while working. Ineffective leadership among the leaders nowadays may affect the work engagement of employees in an organization. Thus, this research objective is to investigate the relationship between transformational lea...
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my.utm.972422022-09-23T04:26:15Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/97242/ Do you believe the transformational leader's role in engaging employees at the workplace? An evidence in Malaysia Mohamad Mohidi, Nurul Ainaa Izzati Abdul Wahab, Shah Rollah Shin, Tack Hyun Shaari, Roziana Noor Azlan, Shakirah HB Economic Theory HD Industries. Land use. Labor HF5549.5.M63 Employee motivation Leadership style is one of the factors that cause employees' unhappiness while working. Ineffective leadership among the leaders nowadays may affect the work engagement of employees in an organization. Thus, this research objective is to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement among workers in one government linked company located at the southern region of Malaysia. To obtain the empirical data, 108 clerical staff of the studied company were involved as the participant of the study. A survey research design by using a questionnaire adapted from Multiple Leadership Questionnaire acquired by Bass (1985) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) was employed for the data collection method. Then, all findings were analyzed by using the descriptive and structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with SmartPLS 3 software. Hence, the result showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement among the studied company. Lastly, the researchers have provided some recommendations for the organization and future research. IJHSSI 2021-06 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/97242/1/NurulAinaaIzzati2021_DoYouBelievetheTransformationalLeaders.pdf Mohamad Mohidi, Nurul Ainaa Izzati and Abdul Wahab, Shah Rollah and Shin, Tack Hyun and Shaari, Roziana and Noor Azlan, Shakirah (2021) Do you believe the transformational leader's role in engaging employees at the workplace? An evidence in Malaysia. International Journal of Humanities and Social Science Invention (IJHSSI), 10 (6). pp. 49-56. ISSN 2319-7714 http://www.ijhssi.org/vol10-issue6.html NA |
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Leadership style is one of the factors that cause employees' unhappiness while working. Ineffective leadership among the leaders nowadays may affect the work engagement of employees in an organization. Thus, this research objective is to investigate the relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement among workers in one government linked company located at the southern region of Malaysia. To obtain the empirical data, 108 clerical staff of the studied company were involved as the participant of the study. A survey research design by using a questionnaire adapted from Multiple Leadership Questionnaire acquired by Bass (1985) and the Utrecht Work Engagement Scale (UWES) was employed for the data collection method. Then, all findings were analyzed by using the descriptive and structural Equation Modelling (SEM) with SmartPLS 3 software. Hence, the result showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership and work engagement among the studied company. Lastly, the researchers have provided some recommendations for the organization and future research. |
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