The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari

This research attempts to identify which of the Big 5 personalities is believed to have the greatest impact in becoming a charismatic Transformational Leader. It is important that every single employees, in any designation, no matter if they are in managerial level or even executive level, to posses...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Saufi, Syazwan, Bahari, Nurul Haliza
Format: Student Project
Language:English
Published: 2013
Subjects:
Online Access:https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31481/
_version_ 1848807770791346176
author Saufi, Syazwan
Bahari, Nurul Haliza
author_facet Saufi, Syazwan
Bahari, Nurul Haliza
author_sort Saufi, Syazwan
building UiTM Institutional Repository
collection Online Access
description This research attempts to identify which of the Big 5 personalities is believed to have the greatest impact in becoming a charismatic Transformational Leader. It is important that every single employees, in any designation, no matter if they are in managerial level or even executive level, to possess the personalities of a Transformational Leaders. It promises stronger career growth, more effective and efficient performance and also adaptability to change. The result that is produced through this research would facilitate interviewers to detect a persons’ ability to become a transformational leader by observing their personality during an interview session. However, transformational leaders are always initiated by being transactional leaders in the beginning. Thus, transactional leadership aspects have briefly been included to test this theory. The result of the research revealed that conscientiousness and extroversion are the two main personalities that have significant positive relationship transformational leaders. These results were revealed through an investigation that is made by distributing a set of questionnaires that were distributed to 300 respondents from 5 different organizations. The 5 different organizations were Mercedes Benz Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Honda Shared Auto Cars Sdn Bhd, Thursinar Building Maintenance Sdn Bhd, Worldwide Medivest Sdn Bhd, and Aluminium Company of Malaysia Berhad. The questionnaire was constructed in a manner that the subordinates to evaluate their superior (CEO / Managing Director) to test the relationship between their personality and the transformational leadership behaviour. These results will be further discussed in Chapter 4 & Chapter 5.
first_indexed 2025-11-14T22:48:06Z
format Student Project
id uitm-31481
institution Universiti Teknologi MARA
institution_category Local University
language English
last_indexed 2025-11-14T22:48:06Z
publishDate 2013
recordtype eprints
repository_type Digital Repository
spelling uitm-314812020-09-17T04:18:47Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31481/ The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari Saufi, Syazwan Bahari, Nurul Haliza Personality Leadership. Transformational leadership This research attempts to identify which of the Big 5 personalities is believed to have the greatest impact in becoming a charismatic Transformational Leader. It is important that every single employees, in any designation, no matter if they are in managerial level or even executive level, to possess the personalities of a Transformational Leaders. It promises stronger career growth, more effective and efficient performance and also adaptability to change. The result that is produced through this research would facilitate interviewers to detect a persons’ ability to become a transformational leader by observing their personality during an interview session. However, transformational leaders are always initiated by being transactional leaders in the beginning. Thus, transactional leadership aspects have briefly been included to test this theory. The result of the research revealed that conscientiousness and extroversion are the two main personalities that have significant positive relationship transformational leaders. These results were revealed through an investigation that is made by distributing a set of questionnaires that were distributed to 300 respondents from 5 different organizations. The 5 different organizations were Mercedes Benz Malaysia Sdn Bhd, Honda Shared Auto Cars Sdn Bhd, Thursinar Building Maintenance Sdn Bhd, Worldwide Medivest Sdn Bhd, and Aluminium Company of Malaysia Berhad. The questionnaire was constructed in a manner that the subordinates to evaluate their superior (CEO / Managing Director) to test the relationship between their personality and the transformational leadership behaviour. These results will be further discussed in Chapter 4 & Chapter 5. 2013 Student Project NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31481/1/31481.pdf Saufi, Syazwan and Bahari, Nurul Haliza (2013) The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari. (2013) [Student Project] <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/31481.pdf> (Unpublished)
spellingShingle Personality
Leadership. Transformational leadership
Saufi, Syazwan
Bahari, Nurul Haliza
The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari
title The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari
title_full The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari
title_fullStr The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari
title_full_unstemmed The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari
title_short The relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / Syazwan Saufi and Nurul Haliza Bahari
title_sort relationship between big five personalities and dimensions of transformational leaders in the private sector / syazwan saufi and nurul haliza bahari
topic Personality
Leadership. Transformational leadership
url https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/31481/