Universities in Malaysia are putting a never-ending effort to ensure academics’ growth through strong leadership. Leadership program such as mentor-mentee is being re-highlighted help faculties prosper. However, the success of highly depends on leadership style that not inclined towards hierarchy and bureaucracy. Therefore, this paper aims investigate dynamics styles (transformational leadershi...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the existence of a patient safety chain for hospitals. Drawing on high reliability organization theory, multifactor leadership theory and total quality management literature, we develop and test a model for improving patient safety – a critical issue facing hospitals today. Specifically, we hypothesize that improving patient safety begins at the highe...

An organization is considered to be effective if it finds the balance between the demands of various stakeholders (owners, employees, customers, community) and the needs of the employees. We believe that an appropriate leadership style can influence and ensure the prosperity and the economic growth of both the organization and employees. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to explore the impact ...

We develop and test a model of pseudotransformational leadership. Pseudo-transformational leadership (i.e., the unethical facet of transformational leadership) is manifested by a particular combination of transformational leadership behaviors (i.e., low idealized influence and high inspirational motivation), and is differentiated from both transformational leadership (i.e., high idealized influ...

In an era that in which  the economy is in the core of knowledge aspect, knowledge is considered as a vital factor in maintaining the sustained competitive advantage of organizations. Today, the art and skill of management in organizations is moving towards changing into the art of "knowledge management"; and, leadership means providing suitable conditions and grounds in producing valuable know...

Awide range of factors has been found to affect organizational innovation. Of these, top managers’ leadership style has been identified as being one of the most, if not the most, important. Yet, few studies have empirically examined the link between this factor and innovation at the organizational level. This study builds on the extant literature to propose four hypotheses about how top manager...

This paper presents a cognitive model which describes the effect of a CIO’s transformational leadership on empowerment and leadership performance. The empirical literature on transformational leadership and empowerment demonstrates strong effects on leadership performance, but the literature has been limited to inquiries dealing with one of these issues. However, there have been little articles...