Social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in Malaysia

Literatures have not adequately discusses the influence of demographic variables on Leadership styles among top management in Malaysian organizations. Hence, the overall aim of the study was to investigate if there is significant difference between social demographic factors and transformational lea...

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Main Authors: Mohammed, Kabeer Abdullahi, Othman, Jamilah, D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Canadian Center of Science and Education 2012
Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53451/1/Social%20demographic%20factors%20that%20influence%20transformational%20leadership%20styles%20among%20top%20management.pdf
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author Mohammed, Kabeer Abdullahi
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description Literatures have not adequately discusses the influence of demographic variables on Leadership styles among top management in Malaysian organizations. Hence, the overall aim of the study was to investigate if there is significant difference between social demographic factors and transformational leadership style among top management in selected organizations in Malaysia. Data was collected through an instrument of leadership styles known as the MLQ to test the dependent variable (Transformational leadership). The independent variables in this study comprises of gender, race, marital status and educational level. The result of the independent samples t-test and ANOVA revealed that there is no significant difference between social demographic factors and transformational leadership styles. The study concludes that transformational leadership styles do not depends on social demographic factors.
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spelling upm.eprints-534512018-10-05T08:47:29Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53451/ Social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in Malaysia Mohammed, Kabeer Abdullahi Othman, Jamilah D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence Literatures have not adequately discusses the influence of demographic variables on Leadership styles among top management in Malaysian organizations. Hence, the overall aim of the study was to investigate if there is significant difference between social demographic factors and transformational leadership style among top management in selected organizations in Malaysia. Data was collected through an instrument of leadership styles known as the MLQ to test the dependent variable (Transformational leadership). The independent variables in this study comprises of gender, race, marital status and educational level. The result of the independent samples t-test and ANOVA revealed that there is no significant difference between social demographic factors and transformational leadership styles. The study concludes that transformational leadership styles do not depends on social demographic factors. Canadian Center of Science and Education 2012 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/53451/1/Social%20demographic%20factors%20that%20influence%20transformational%20leadership%20styles%20among%20top%20management.pdf Mohammed, Kabeer Abdullahi and Othman, Jamilah and D'Silva, Jeffrey Lawrence (2012) Social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in Malaysia. Asian Social Science, 8 (12). pp. 51-58. ISSN 1911-2017; ESSN: 1911-2025 http://www.ccsenet.org/journal/index.php/ass/article/view/21486 10.5539/ass.v8n13p51
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title_full Social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in Malaysia
title_fullStr Social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in Malaysia
title_short Social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in Malaysia
title_sort social demographic factors that influence transformational leadership styles among top management in selected organization in malaysia
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