Employees’ perception on their superiors’ leadership style and its relationship with fostering innovation culture in manufacturing industry in Penang, Malaysia

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dc.contributor.authorChan, Richie Yuan Lin
dc.date.accessioned2014-11-11T08:31:17Z
dc.date.available2014-11-11T08:31:17Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.descriptionMasteren_US
dc.description.abstractThis quantitative study was to predict the relationships between the leaders’ leadership styles on fostering innovation culture. The targeted participants are the employees working in the manufacturing industry situated in Penang, Malaysia and this report consist of 228 samples. Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire and Fostering Innovation Culture Questionnaire were sent through emails and also with printed copies directly to the participants in the respective companies. The study consisted of 54 questions which include demographic questions and the remaining questions on independent variables were measured, using a five-point Likert scale. Data were computed and analyzed through Cronbach’s Alpha reliability test and Multiple Regression Analyses. In the perception of employees, the findings of the study were generalized as follows: (i) Transactional leadership style is accepted and showed positive relationship to fostering innovation culture. (ii) Transformational leadership style is partially accepted and showed positive relationship to fostering innovation culture. (iii) Passive/Avoidance leadership style is partially accepted and showed negative relationship to fostering innovation-culture. Transactional Leadership emerged as the strongest single predictor among the three perceived leadership styles toward fostering innovation culture but leaders need to have a mixture of some threads in Transformational and Passive/Avoidance leadership style. These results suggest that leaders in the manufacturing industry in Penang needs to pay more attention to rewarding followers, motivating and creating a visionary path for followers and providing space for followers to perform in their assigned task.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/439
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectBusiness administrationen_US
dc.subjectEmployees’ perceptionen_US
dc.subjectSuperiors’ leadership styleen_US
dc.subjectInnovation cultureen_US
dc.titleEmployees’ perception on their superiors’ leadership style and its relationship with fostering innovation culture in manufacturing industry in Penang, Malaysiaen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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