Managers and employees perceived leadership behavior: expatriate and local bosses
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2010
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Tangaya, Davendran
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Abstract
The purpose of this research is to investigate the manager and employees
perceived leadership behavior of their expatriate and local bosses in terms of 12
subscales of leadership behavior. This study was conducted by distributing
questionnaires to 300 respondents in orders to gather evidence to test the above
research question. For this purpose, the ‘Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire
LBDQ (1962, LBDQ XII Ideal Leader)’ was administered to the respondents. Based
on the test conducted, results shows that managers and employees perceived
significantly different towards local and expatriate leadership behavior (t=1.36,
p<0.01). Managers and employees perceived leadership behavior is higher towards
local bosses (mean=4.00) compared to expatriate leaders (mean=3.72). It is believed
that his study will serve as an eye opener to many MNC operating in Malaysia to
recheck and reevaluate their previous idea of bring in expatriate bosses to manage
their facility or organization here in Malaysia. Finally implication of the results and
suggestions for future research are discussed at the end of research.
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Business Administration , Leadership Behavior