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The Influence of Leadership on Employee Performance Among Jewellery Artisans in Malaysia

Year: 2017
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to examine the leadership influence on employee job performance, in this case, in the jewellery industry in Malaysia. Various studies tried to examine leadership style and its influence on employee performance, job performance, firm’s performance and commitment. The results was mixed, some are positive and some are negative. In the past, most of the research have taken various leadership styles that are cited under different leadership theories. This study has selected leadership styles such as supportive, participative, servant, transactional and transformational leadership styles as independent variables that are assumed to have direct influence on employee job performance, which is the dependent variable. A survey self-rating scale questionnaire was developed using past literature to examine leadership styles and employee performance. A sample of 115 respondents were recruited using simple random probability sampling technique. The collected data was recorded and analysed using SPSS 22.0. The finding shows that only supportive and transformational leadership behaviour positively and significantly influences employee performance at workplace. We found the other three leadership behvaiour such as servant, participative and transactional leadership behaviours are not significant in influencing employee performance. Therefore we concluded that only transformational and supportive leadership behaviour directly influences employee performance. Managers must find ways to cultivate supportive and transformational leadership behvaiour to improve employee job performance, especially among the Jewellery industry managers.
Language: English
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2897941369
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