The effects of innovative leadership styles on the organizational performance

Siti Salihah , Mohamad (2015) The effects of innovative leadership styles on the organizational performance. Project Report. UTeM. (Submitted)

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Abstract

This study investigated the effects of innovative leadership styles on the organizational performance at Flextronics Shah Alam, Gelang Patah, Johor. Transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire leadership styles were considered in this study. The research problem among others includes the style of innovative leadership that improve the organizational performance and ones that hampers the organizational performance. The transformational, transactional and laissez-faire leadership style theories have been extensively discussed. The study followed a survey design, and employed evaluative quantitative analysis method. The survey conducted by distributes the questionnaire to the employees in the company of study based on the leadership styles that adopt in the organization and the effect of it’s to the employees’ performance in the organization. Correlation analysis was employed to determine the relationship between the leadership styles (transformational, transactional, and laissez-faire) and organizational performance and to test the hypothesis of the study. Multiple Regression analysis was used to identify leadership styles that most affect the organization's performance. The result showed that transformational and transactional leadership had significant positive effect on performance whereas laissez-faire is not significantly correlated to the organizational performance. The study concluded that transformational leadership style was more appropriate in optimizing performance in the company of study than transactional and laissez-faire leadership style.

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