Factors affecting transactional leadership style at engineering sector in Malaysia

Abstract

First-class leader demands noble understanding and skills in managing the organization and people. This requires comprehensive talents in both interpersonal and intrapersonal skills. Alongside comprehensive talents, leader must also be able to successfully plan related project and deliver the strategic vision to the team. This study identifies an appropriate ideology in practicing an appropriate leadership styles towards employees that works within engineering sector in Malaysia. In this case, transactional leadership style is chosen. An in-depth set of questionnaire were administered to 107 employees that work within an engineering company in Malaysia. In the result findings, factors that associate with the adaptability towards transactional leadership style were found. The future study should observe employees from tourism industry to get more informants for the study.