The relationship between the perceived leadership styles of managers and employee job satisfaction in a major cable manufacturer in Malaysia
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Date
2004-09
Authors
Yeoh, Mei Kwai
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
Abstract
According to Warren Bennis(1984), managers are people who do things right,
while leaders are people who do the right thing. This means that managers do things by
the book and follow company policies, while leaders follow their own intuition, which
may in tum be of more benefit to the company. A leader is more emotional than a
manager. To be an effective leader, our people must have trust ill us and they have to be
sold on our vision.
Kom-Ferry Intemational, an executive search company, perfonned a survey on
what organizations want from thenĀ· leaders. The respondents said they wanted people
who were etllical and who conveyed a strong vision of the future. In any organization, a
leader's actions set the pace. Tills behaviour wins trust, loyalty, and ensures the
organization's contilmed vitality. One of the ways to build trust is to display a good
sense of character. Character is the disposition of a person, made up of beliefs, values,
skills, and traits.
The central theme of this study is to determine the leadership style of managers
as perceived by employees in a major local cable manufacturer, Leader Universal
Holding Berhad (LUH) . A survey had been carried out and a random sample of 80 was
chosen. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the
data. The results obtained from the analysis shows that there is a significant relationship
between the leadership style of managers as perceived by employees, and employee job
satisfaction.
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Relationship between the leadership