Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions

Employee job satisfaction is an important component of any job and could be influenced by different types of leadership. Keeping employees happy and satisfied while at the same time being a great leader is an extremely difficult balance, especially in educational leadership, where there are two diff...

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Main Authors: Shaari, R., Kamarudin, D., Soon-Yew, J., Zakaria, H.
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Language:English
Published: Asya Öğretim Dergisi 2022
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author Shaari, R.
Kamarudin, D.
Soon-Yew, J.
Zakaria, H.
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Kamarudin, D.
Soon-Yew, J.
Zakaria, H.
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description Employee job satisfaction is an important component of any job and could be influenced by different types of leadership. Keeping employees happy and satisfied while at the same time being a great leader is an extremely difficult balance, especially in educational leadership, where there are two different types of employees, mainly administrators, and educators. It requires a leader who can balance between the lines and choose the proper leadership style to motivate different types of employees. This study looks at three different leadership types: laissez-faire, transformational and transactional leadership. A purposeful sampling of 393 participants was utilized to sample educators from Malaysia's private and governmental education institutions. Data were collected using questionnaires. The findings indicated that transformational leadership and laissez-faire have a significant relationship to job satisfaction where laissez-faire (β = 0.608, t = 16.576, p = 0.000) and transformational leadership (β = 0.865, t = 8.498; p = 0.000), while transactional leadership has an insignificant relationship with job satisfaction (β = -0.019, t = 0.747, p = 0.227).
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spelling ump-366552023-03-13T02:01:41Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/36655/ Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions Shaari, R. Kamarudin, D. Soon-Yew, J. Zakaria, H. L Education (General) LB2300 Higher Education Employee job satisfaction is an important component of any job and could be influenced by different types of leadership. Keeping employees happy and satisfied while at the same time being a great leader is an extremely difficult balance, especially in educational leadership, where there are two different types of employees, mainly administrators, and educators. It requires a leader who can balance between the lines and choose the proper leadership style to motivate different types of employees. This study looks at three different leadership types: laissez-faire, transformational and transactional leadership. A purposeful sampling of 393 participants was utilized to sample educators from Malaysia's private and governmental education institutions. Data were collected using questionnaires. The findings indicated that transformational leadership and laissez-faire have a significant relationship to job satisfaction where laissez-faire (β = 0.608, t = 16.576, p = 0.000) and transformational leadership (β = 0.865, t = 8.498; p = 0.000), while transactional leadership has an insignificant relationship with job satisfaction (β = -0.019, t = 0.747, p = 0.227). Asya Öğretim Dergisi 2022-06-30 Article PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/36655/1/10.47215-aji.1020324-2068452%20%281%29.pdf Shaari, R. and Kamarudin, D. and Soon-Yew, J. and Zakaria, H. (2022) Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions. Asian Journal of Instruction (E-AJI), 10 (1). pp. 54-70. ISSN 2148-2659. (Published) https://doi.org/10.47215/aji.1020324 https://doi.org/10.47215/aji.1020324
spellingShingle L Education (General)
LB2300 Higher Education
Shaari, R.
Kamarudin, D.
Soon-Yew, J.
Zakaria, H.
Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions
title Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions
title_full Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions
title_fullStr Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions
title_full_unstemmed Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions
title_short Effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among Malaysian higher education institutions
title_sort effects of leadership types on job satisfaction among malaysian higher education institutions
topic L Education (General)
LB2300 Higher Education
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