Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh.

Family-owned businesses have been criticized for having a lack of leadership effectiveness and yield unfavourable influence on employee’s job performance. Although there are ample studies on favouritism particularly in family-owned businesses, nevertheless very limited studies highlighted on the lea...

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Main Authors: Mohamad Yusof, Syaimaa Amira, Puteh, Fadilah
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 2018
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Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23197/
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description Family-owned businesses have been criticized for having a lack of leadership effectiveness and yield unfavourable influence on employee’s job performance. Although there are ample studies on favouritism particularly in family-owned businesses, nevertheless very limited studies highlighted on the leadership styles as the significant mediator. This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of leadership styles namely democratic and autocratic styles between favouritism on gender and favouritism on social ties and job performance. Data was collected from 350 respondents via questionnaire and was analysed using correlation, multiple regression and Hayes PROCESS techniques. The findings of this study revealed interesting results of the mediation effect of both democratic and autocratic leadership styles between favouritism and job performance among employees in the family-owned business.
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spelling uitm-231972020-04-06T03:32:36Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23197/ Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh. abrij Mohamad Yusof, Syaimaa Amira Puteh, Fadilah Leadership. Transformational leadership Executives Job evaluation Rating of employees Family-owned businesses have been criticized for having a lack of leadership effectiveness and yield unfavourable influence on employee’s job performance. Although there are ample studies on favouritism particularly in family-owned businesses, nevertheless very limited studies highlighted on the leadership styles as the significant mediator. This study aims to investigate the mediating effect of leadership styles namely democratic and autocratic styles between favouritism on gender and favouritism on social ties and job performance. Data was collected from 350 respondents via questionnaire and was analysed using correlation, multiple regression and Hayes PROCESS techniques. The findings of this study revealed interesting results of the mediation effect of both democratic and autocratic leadership styles between favouritism and job performance among employees in the family-owned business. Faculty of Business and Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam 2018-12 Article PeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23197/1/AJ_SYAIMAA%20AMIRA%20MOHAMAD%20YUSOF%20ADBRIJ%20B%2018.pdf.pdf Mohamad Yusof, Syaimaa Amira and Puteh, Fadilah (2018) Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh. (2018) Advances in Business Research International Journal (ABRIJ) <https://ir.uitm.edu.my/view/publication/Advances_in_Business_Research_International_Journal_=28ABRIJ=29.html>, 4 (2). pp. 86-106. ISSN 2462-1838 https://abrij.uitm.edu.my
spellingShingle Leadership. Transformational leadership
Executives
Job evaluation
Rating of employees
Mohamad Yusof, Syaimaa Amira
Puteh, Fadilah
Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh.
title Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh.
title_full Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh.
title_fullStr Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh.
title_full_unstemmed Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh.
title_short Assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / Syaimaa Amira Mohamad Yusof and Fadilah Puteh.
title_sort assessing the mediating effect of leadership styles on favoritism and job performance in family-owned business / syaimaa amira mohamad yusof and fadilah puteh.
topic Leadership. Transformational leadership
Executives
Job evaluation
Rating of employees
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23197/
https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/23197/