Leaders affect employees’ performance in the organization by their leadership style, which
is dependent to the degree of favor by their followers. It is vital for the organization to
identify the most effective leadership styles which will boost performance in the
organization. This research studied the type of leadership trait most preferred in the
telecommunication sector. This qualitative study used the Full Range Leadership Model to
identify and suggest the preferred traits of a leader. The sampling method used was
purposive. Interview guides were used as the research tool. A total of six (6) informants
were interviewed. The results showed transformational leadership style is the most preferred
by all the informants as the employees found that the traits of the transformational leader
bring more positive impacts on their work performance.
Shift work alters workers exposure to natural and artificial light, sleep patterns, and feeding
patterns. Among other working population, shift workers are at a greater risk of developing
metabolic impairments over time. Hence, this study aimed to study the relationship between
workers’ health and night shift work in food franchise industry in Kuching, Sarawak. The
independent variables are sleep pattern, mental health, psychological well-being, circadian
rhythm, and insomnia, while the dependent variable is night shift work. Questionnaires were
distributed using convenience sampling techniques and a total of 59 questionnaires were collected.
Pearson Correlations test. showed that there is a significant relationship between
workers’ health and night shift work. The implications on this research shows that there are
more researches on the mitigation of health risk on shift workers.
The objective of this study is to identify the relationship between task characteristics (variety of skills, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback) and employee engagement. The study was conducted in a healthcare service in Sabah, Malaysia. A self administered questionnaire was used to collect data by using convenience sampling. A total of 78 respondents participated in the study. Data was analyzed using Spearman Correlation. The results revealed a significant and positive relationship between task characteristics (variety of skills, task identity, task significance, autonomy, feedback) and employee engagement in the studied organization. This has important implications to employers. It is recommended that managers, human resource development (HRD) practitioners and supervisors provide employees with more challenging tasks, autonomy and feedback from time to time. Moreover, work designs should include how the tasks may improve employee identity and significance.
Occupational stress is caused by various reasons, such as, workload and long working hours. This leads to occurrence of trend in using wellness activities to treat physical and psychological illness that is known as complementary therapy, which is Yoga, Aromatherapy, Qi gong, and Islamic Medical Practices (Ruqyah). Therefore, this research offered a perspective on the use of complementary therapies as a tool in improving and maintaining mental health condition of employees located in Penang, Malaysia. Qualitative method was used where 5 complementary therapy practitioners were interviewed to identify the perceptions towards the use of complementary therapy and to identify the type of therapy that can be practiced to reduce stress, as well as, discuss the benefits of complementary therapies. It was found that complementary therapy is very beneficial as it acts as a holistic treatment, natural way of healing and more empowering, as it helps to improve employee’s mental, emotional and physical health
There has been only limited research focused on the assumption of leader stress and affective well-being. Hence, this study aims to determine the relationship between leadership style and employee stress level at workplace. This study primarily took a quantitative approach for data collection and analysis. Questionnaires were distributed at three branches of banks located in Kuching, Sarawak and to their employees. The findings show that there is a relationship between autocratic leadership style and employee stress level at workplace. The strength of the relationship is weak due to r = .461, p = .002. The findings also show that democratic leadership and transformational leadership have no relationship with the employee stress level at workplace.
Work-related accidents is a controversial topic in Malaysia as evidenced by the increased number of occupational accidents throughout the years. The purpose of this research is to examine the relationship between management practices and safety performance in an or-ganization. The four management practices investigated are (a) training, (b) management commitment, (c) communication and feedback, and (d) employee involvement. The most effective safety practice is also identified. The data was collected at a manufacturing com-pany located in Shah Alam, Malaysia using closed-ended questionnaire. 95 respondents from the production line were involved in this study. The result found that training had a very weak relationship to the safety performance while the management commitment, as well as the communication and feedback, revealed to have a weak impact on safety perfor-mance. On the other hand, the analysis showed that employee involvement is the most ef-fective safety practice to the safety performance, as it had a moderate impact on safety per-formance.
This study was conducted to explore the manager’s perception towards Generation Y
employees particularly in the IT industry in Selangor. A case study approach was adopted in
which data was obtained through semi-structured interviews. Purposive sampling technique
was used and a total of eight (8) informants participated and interviewed. The data obtained
from the interview were qualitatively analyzed. Data analysis was conducted by adopting a
content analysis framework in which obtained data were divided into four (4) phases
including condensation, code, category and inference and summarize. The findings showed
majority of the managers perceived that openness to experience, conscientious and
extraversion’ are the most common personalities among Generation Y employees. Besides
that, the findings also revealed that in terms of work ethics, Generation Y employees are
perceived as accountable of own’s actions, respect authority, transparency and loyal. The
result of this study implicates the organization in terms of attrition and turnover rate among
Generation Y employees and organizational branding. The result of this study provided
some recommendations to HR practitioners and organizations in managing and handling at
the workplace.
A positive working environment is vital in ensuring employee productivity to avoid
unnecessary stress to the employees thus affecting their work performances. There are
several working environment factors that contributed towards job satisfaction. Hence, this
study aimed to investigate the relationship between the working environment and employee
performance based on five dimensions of the working environment. The quantitative survey
design was utilized in this study and data were collected by using questionnaires. The
respondents of this study were administrators from different departments in a local
municipality located in Kuching. The data were analysed by using Pearson’s Correlation
Analysis to measure the relationship between the variables. The finding shows there is a
significant relationship between the working environment and employee performance.
Support from supervisor was found to be the dominant variables in ensuring a positive
working environment.