Jaafar, Mohd Nor and Abu Bakar, Aisyah (2012) Masalah kepimpinan dalam kontek keutuhan kepimpinan negara = Leadership problems in the contact of national intact. In: Seminar on National Resilience (SNAR) III, 03-05 December 2012, Puteri Resort, Ayer Keroh, Melaka.

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Abstract

Responsibility to lead and manage a community to achieve its objectives and goals is to shoulder the leader.The success and progress of a society depends heavily on the leadership style of their leader and is closely related to consciousness to fulfill its obligations by the leadership. This study was conducted to identify (a) the level of job satisfaction and commitment (b) the assessment of the level of satisfaction and commitment of employees working in terms of gender, (c) the relationship between the leadership of the director of job satisfaction, and (d) the relationship between leadership Affairs Director Students with satisfaction and commitment of the staff of the Student Affairs Department, Universiti Utara Malaysia. This study uses Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Theory (1954) to study the job satisfaction and work commitment and Theory of Information Access Information House (1974) to study the behavior of the leadership.A total of 120 respondents participated in this study.The instrument consisted of 50 items regarding job satisfaction, 18 items of work commitments and 35 items about leadership behaviors of the director.The findings of this study showed that, first, the level of job satisfaction and commitment of the staff of Student Affairs Department of Universiti Utara Malaysia is high. Second, there was no significant difference between job satisfaction and work commitment of male and female staff, Third, studies have shown a significant relationship between all the director in terms of leadership behavior directed leadership, leadership behavior support, participative leadership behavior and behavior achievement oriented with job satisfaction and job commitment. The study also found that the dominant leadership behavior by directors is success-oriented behavior, while directing behavior is the least used.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information:	ISBN 978-967-0193-06-9 Anjuran: Institut Pemikiran Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Universiti Utara Malaysia
Subjects:	J Political Science > JQ Political institutions Asia
Divisions:	College of Arts and Sciences
Depositing User:	Dr. Mohd Nor Jaafar
Date Deposited:	02 Jan 2013 00:23
Last Modified:	02 Jan 2013 00:23
URI:	https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/6839

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