Leadership effectiveness and cognitive style: A Malaysian government linked companies' (GLCs) perspectives

The purpose of this study was to explore leadership effectiveness from the perspectives of the Full Range Leadership Model and Cognitive Style Theory within the framework of understanding both followers and leaders as individual¿s attitudes to leadership effectiveness. Leadership effectiveness was measured using newly developed self-report instrument, the Leadership Effectiveness Questionnaire (LEQ) with three scales of effectiveness as suggested by Yukl (2002), which were: 1) aims, 2) followers¿ attitude towards the leader and, 3) group processes. The Full Range leadership approaches were measured using Bass & Avolio¿s (1997) Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ) Form 5X-Short, whilst cognitive style was gathered by using Allinson & Hayes¿s (1996) Cognitive Style Index (CSI). A two stage (questionnaire survey followed by semi structured interviews) mixed method study was undertaken. Questionnaire data was gathered from 331 followers and 172 leaders in Malaysian Government-Linked Companies, and 10 leaders involved in the interviews. Findings from the survey suggest that a transformational approach was correlated significantly and positively with effectiveness. Intuitive Cognitive Style also correlated significantly with leadership effectiveness. Findings from the semistructured interviews identified a few more characteristics of an effective leadership such as balance and appreciative, whilst new dimensions of cognitive style identified such as rational and holistic.Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE) Malaysia; and Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (Unimas)

Exploring and Developing Items Measuring Teachers’ Followership Modalities : An Exploratory Factor Analysis Procedure

The concept of followership has received considerable attention over the past three decades. Good followers play crucial role in determining the success of an organization. However, past followership literature has revealed that there is limited understanding of the dimensions that made up followership modalities, especially in the school context. The purpose of the study was therefore to contribute to the existing literature by performing a thorough validation of the dimensions of Teachers' Followership Modalities through the Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) procedure. This study used a cross-sectional survey approach to develop precise measurements for the Teachers’ Followership Modalities construct. A structured questionnaire in Google Form format was used to collect data. The study included 108 randomly selected public secondary school teachers from three districts in Sarawak, namely Kuching, Padawan, and Samarahan. The study revealed that all 20 items adapted and modified from Kelley's (1992) Followership Questionnaire met the EFA procedure's factor loading cut-off point of .60 using IBM-SPSS software version 25.0. Therefore, all 20 items were kept and deemed appropriate for measuring the Teachers' Followership Modalities construct. However, the EFA procedure disclosed 5 components as compared to Kelley’s two-dimensional model. The findings of this study offered a validated and reliable questionnaire to measure Teachers' Followership Modalities among public secondary school teachers in Malaysia. Thus, the Malaysian Ministry of Education which seeks to gain from teachers with good followership modalities will benefit from this research

Pengenalan MENTORING Di Institusi Pengajian Tinggi

Buku ringkas ini membincangkan mentoring sebagai salah satu kaedah untuk membangunkan sahsiah siswa-siswi serta meningkatkan prestasi akademik mereka. Objektif dan kaedah pelaksanaan mentoring dikupas dengan mendalam. Aktiviti untuk mengisi sesi perjumpaan mento-mentee turut disertakan untuk memberi idea kepada mentor dan pembaca amnya

Level of Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention among Academicians

The aim of this study is to explain the unique role of motivation and job satisfaction and turnover intention by digging knowledge taken from different theories and models given by the different researchers and the measurement by different indicators. To understand the job satisfaction and turnover intention seems to be fragmented and tangled in many disciplines. To construct meaningful understanding of motivation and job satisfaction and turnover intention various disciplines were reviewed and synthesized were discussed. The aim of this study is to give the deeper understanding of underlying theories of motivationand job satisfaction and turnover intention. The literature that helps conceptualize the job satisfaction, urnover intention, second, the founding pieces of literature that composite the theory and third, the most emerging literature in the job satisfaction and turnover intention are selected to explain the job satisfaction and turnover intention. Based on thorough review of literature new conceptual studdy has been introduced. In both, the literature and organizational literature, the existing theories of job satisfaction and turnover intention can be evaluated to fully capture the distinctive aspects of the satisfaction various theories of satisfaction are encompassed. This extended literature requires empirical testing to identify the dimensions of the job satisfaction and motivation and turnover intention.The extended literature of job satisfaction and turnover will be useful to bring changes in the satisfaction level of the employees and helps the researchers to understand easily the theories of satisfaction and turnover

Two Ways Interaction between Lower Order Terms of Left Brain and Right Brain Cognitive Style and Relationship between Satisfaction and Turnover Intention

This paper argues that teacher’s job satisfaction should also have an impact on turnover intention. In this paper identified teacher’s level of job satisfaction and turnover intention of advance learning institutions in the Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa Province of the Pakistan and the moderating effect of the cognitive style. Questionnaires were used to gather the information and 502 completed questionnaires were collected back from the respondents. The questionnaire was comprised of JDI consisting of seven items on job satisfaction, turnover Intention questionnaire consisting of three items and five point Likert scale was used and for cognitive style CSI, the cognitive style index was used, the fourth section was comprised of the open ended questionnaire and fifth section was comprised of demographic variables. Hierarchical multiple regressions have been used to check how much variance satisfaction shows upon turnover intention and also it has been checked that how much variance analysis and intuition cognitive style shows variance upon satisfaction and turnover intention of advance learning institutions of kpk province of Pakistan. The correlation results taken from bivariate Pearson correlation shows significant results which later on strengthen by the regression results. The regression results show that satisfaction shows variance upon turnover intention, this extended model of job satisfaction will be useful to bring the changes in the academician’s satisfaction of Khyber Pakhtoon Khwa province of Pakistan. The findings of this study could be used to guide the advance learning institution’s management and professional academicians build targeted learning activities around key components of the academician’s job satisfaction, diagnose where people are in their journey, set personalize goals and provide feedback to management in the process of the development of policies for advance learning institutions academician’s. In the context of the efficient and effective educational policy, a greater understanding of the academician’s job satisfaction could facilitate the development of more effective policy, practice that would increase not only the job satisfaction of the academicians but decrease the turnover intention of the academician’s

Leadership and followership in an organizational change context Advances in business strategy and competitive advantage./ Sajjad Nawaz Khan.

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Perancangan Strategik dan Prestasi Pelajar Sekolah Menengah di Sarawak

Kajian ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji pengaruh perancangan strategik terhadap prestasi pelajar di samping mengenal pasti hubungan antara kedua-dua pemboleh ubah tersebut. Kaedah kuantitatif digunakan dalam kajian ini dengan mengedarkan soal selidik kepada sampel kajian yang terdiri daripada pengetua sekolah menengah kebangsaan di negeri Sarawak. Kandungan soal selidik telah disahkan oleh tiga orang pakar yang berpengalaman dalam bidang pengurusan sekolah. Sebanyak 130 maklum balas responden kajian dianalisis dengan menggunakan SPSS versi 26.0. Analisis korelasi Pearson menunjukkan perancangan strategik mempunyai hubungan positif yang signifikan dengan prestasi pelajar (r=0.515, p=0.000). Setiap proses dalam perancangan strategik juga berkorelasi secara positif dengan prestasi pelajar pada tahap kekuatan yang berbeza. Analisis regresi berganda melaporkan perancangan strategik mempengaruhi prestasi pelajar sebanyak 35.2%. Dapatan kajian menunjukkan perancangan strategik mempunyai pengaruh yang signifikan terhadap prestasi pelajar sekolah menengah kebangsaan di negeri Sarawak