Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs
The Problem: In Malaysia, women entrepreneurs are underrepresented, and little is known about their development of self-leadership. Official statistics indicate that approximately half of the businesses run by women remain underperforming. This shows that women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership is an i...
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| author | Mohd Rasdi, Roziah Hamzah, Siti Raba'ah Tan, Fee Yean |
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| description | The Problem: In Malaysia, women entrepreneurs are underrepresented, and little is known about their development of self-leadership. Official statistics indicate that approximately half of the businesses run by women remain underperforming. This shows that women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership is an issue that should be addressed. The Solution: This study aims to explore self-leadership development of Malaysian women entrepreneurs. Qualitative interviews with seven women entrepreneurs were conducted. The study findings indicated that self-leadership is a process that can be developed and mastered by women entrepreneurs so that they have better chances of success in their business start-ups. This study provides a model of the self-leadership process that illustrates a range of influences that are likely to contribute to women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development. The Stakeholders: The model developed would be beneficial to human resource development (HRD) practitioners and Malaysian government agencies (e.g., SME Corporation Malaysia) that design and deliver interventions (e.g., incubator programs and training workshops) focusing on women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development. |
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| spelling | upm-889132021-11-02T03:42:00Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88913/ Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs Mohd Rasdi, Roziah Hamzah, Siti Raba'ah Tan, Fee Yean The Problem: In Malaysia, women entrepreneurs are underrepresented, and little is known about their development of self-leadership. Official statistics indicate that approximately half of the businesses run by women remain underperforming. This shows that women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership is an issue that should be addressed. The Solution: This study aims to explore self-leadership development of Malaysian women entrepreneurs. Qualitative interviews with seven women entrepreneurs were conducted. The study findings indicated that self-leadership is a process that can be developed and mastered by women entrepreneurs so that they have better chances of success in their business start-ups. This study provides a model of the self-leadership process that illustrates a range of influences that are likely to contribute to women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development. The Stakeholders: The model developed would be beneficial to human resource development (HRD) practitioners and Malaysian government agencies (e.g., SME Corporation Malaysia) that design and deliver interventions (e.g., incubator programs and training workshops) focusing on women entrepreneurs’ self-leadership development. SAGE Publications 2020 Article PeerReviewed text en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/88913/1/ABSTRACT.pdf Mohd Rasdi, Roziah and Hamzah, Siti Raba'ah and Tan, Fee Yean (2020) Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 22 (2). 189 - 200. ISSN 1523-4223; ESSN: 1552-3055 (Unpublished) https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1523422320907048 10.1177/1523422320907048 |
| spellingShingle | Mohd Rasdi, Roziah Hamzah, Siti Raba'ah Tan, Fee Yean Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs |
| title | Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs |
| title_full | Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs |
| title_fullStr | Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs |
| title_full_unstemmed | Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs |
| title_short | Exploring self-leadership development among Malaysian women entrepreneurs |
| title_sort | exploring self-leadership development among malaysian women entrepreneurs |
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