The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin

High workplace morale is essential for obtaining success in business. As debated by most researchers, the root causes of low employee morale include job security issues, uncertain business conditions, a perceived lack of fair compensation and many other inefficient business practices. The negative i...

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Main Author:	Yasin, Mohammad Yuzaimi
Format:	Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	2020
Subjects:	Leadership Transformational leadership Employee motivation
Online Access:	https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60974/1/60974.pdf
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spelling	my-uitm-ir.609742022-06-03T07:20:08Z The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin 2020-06 Yasin, Mohammad Yuzaimi Leadership. Transformational leadership Employee motivation High workplace morale is essential for obtaining success in business. As debated by most researchers, the root causes of low employee morale include job security issues, uncertain business conditions, a perceived lack of fair compensation and many other inefficient business practices. The negative impact of low employee morale is disconcerting as it affects both financial standing and productivity level. This would ultimately result in poor economic performance and if the condition persists, could deteriorate the sustainable development path of the country. Despite many programmes conducted by organizations to boost their employees’ motivation and morale, these activities are sometimes unsuccessful due to mismanagement. The objective of this study is to analyse the mediating effect of the working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and the morale of employees in logistics companies in Malaysia. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM-SPSS) was employed to analyse the preliminary data, descriptive analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis prior to conducting the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling were performed through the Analysis of Moments Structure (IBM-AMOS). The analysis revealed that working environment and diversity have a direct positive impact on employees’ morale. However, leadership style does not have a direct influence on employees’ morale. Leadership style in the logistics industry in Malaysia has a positive influence in creating conducive working environment. Furthermore, working environment is found to fully mediate the relationship between leadership style and employee morale. Awareness of the significant impact of employee morale should be further enhanced among the key industry players as morale is perceived to boost productivity. Recommendations for further research would include identifying other significant drivers to morale in order to improve and strengthen the employee-industry relationship. Finally, it is hoped that the findings of this study could assist the management of the logistics companies to formulate appropriate policies to boost their employees’ morale. 2020-06 Thesis https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60974/ https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/60974/1/60974.pdf text en public phd doctoral Universiti Teknologi MARA Faculty of Business and Management Mohd Yusof, Rozman (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
institution	Universiti Teknologi MARA
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language	English
advisor	Mohd Yusof, Rozman (Assoc. Prof. Dr.)
topic	Leadership Transformational leadership Employee motivation
spellingShingle	Leadership Transformational leadership Employee motivation Yasin, Mohammad Yuzaimi The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin
description	High workplace morale is essential for obtaining success in business. As debated by most researchers, the root causes of low employee morale include job security issues, uncertain business conditions, a perceived lack of fair compensation and many other inefficient business practices. The negative impact of low employee morale is disconcerting as it affects both financial standing and productivity level. This would ultimately result in poor economic performance and if the condition persists, could deteriorate the sustainable development path of the country. Despite many programmes conducted by organizations to boost their employees’ motivation and morale, these activities are sometimes unsuccessful due to mismanagement. The objective of this study is to analyse the mediating effect of the working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and the morale of employees in logistics companies in Malaysia. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (IBM-SPSS) was employed to analyse the preliminary data, descriptive analysis and Exploratory Factor Analysis prior to conducting the Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) and Structural Equation Modelling (SEM). The Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Structural Equation Modelling were performed through the Analysis of Moments Structure (IBM-AMOS). The analysis revealed that working environment and diversity have a direct positive impact on employees’ morale. However, leadership style does not have a direct influence on employees’ morale. Leadership style in the logistics industry in Malaysia has a positive influence in creating conducive working environment. Furthermore, working environment is found to fully mediate the relationship between leadership style and employee morale. Awareness of the significant impact of employee morale should be further enhanced among the key industry players as morale is perceived to boost productivity. Recommendations for further research would include identifying other significant drivers to morale in order to improve and strengthen the employee-industry relationship. Finally, it is hoped that the findings of this study could assist the management of the logistics companies to formulate appropriate policies to boost their employees’ morale.
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author	Yasin, Mohammad Yuzaimi
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title	The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin
title_short	The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin
title_full	The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin
title_fullStr	The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin
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title_sort	mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in malaysia / mohammad yuzaimi yasin
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The mediating effect of working environment on the relationship between leadership style, diversity, and employees’ morale in Malaysia / Mohammad Yuzaimi Yasin

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