Leadership Styles, Job Performance And Subjective Occupational Success Of Engineers: The Moderating Impact Of Mentoring
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2016-08
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Kuan, Siaw Vui
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This study intends to examine the relationships between supervisors’ leadership styles and engineers’ job performance and subjective occupational success. It also examines the moderating impact of mentoring on the relationship between leadership styles and job performance as well as the moderating impact of mentoring on the relationship between leadership styles and subjective occupational success. A cross-sectional sample survey field study was employed and a total of 340 usable questionnaires were collected from the engineers presently serving in the large scale electrical and electronics manufacturing companies located in Selangor, Penang, Johor and Sarawak. Data were analyzed using Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modelling (PLS-SEM) technique to test the hypotheses developed. Two major findings were obtained: First, transformational leadership style was found a better predictor to both the engineers’ job performance as well as subjective occupational success compared to that of transactional leadership style. Second, the positive relationship between transformational leadership style and subjective occupational success was stronger when the mentoring received from supervisors is high. These findings provide a better understanding of the interacting effect of supervisory leadership style and mentoring provided in the attainment of engineers’ optimal job performance and subjective occupational success. Thus, it
serves as a practical guide for organization HRM initiatives towards developing a pool of high performing engineers with great sense of subjective occupational success who eventually serve as the cutting edge to sustain the Malaysian electrical and electronics industry which plays a key role in lifting the nation’s economy.
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The relationships between supervisors’ leadership styles and engineers’ job performance , and subjective occupational success.