THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AMONGST THE IBAN COMMUNITY LEADERS IN THE THREE RESETTLEMENT AREAS IN KANOWIT DISTRICT, SARAWAK.

Warren Aris /, Aris AK. Alap (1998) THE DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP AMONGST THE IBAN COMMUNITY LEADERS IN THE THREE RESETTLEMENT AREAS IN KANOWIT DISTRICT, SARAWAK. Masters thesis, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak.

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Abstract

The primary purpose of this study was to explore the emergence of Transformational Leadership amongst the Iban community leaders in the three Resettlement Areas in Kanowit District. The respondents were comprised of 57 Community Leaders from the study areas. The demographic characteristics chosen for the purpose of this study were: gender, age, number of years attended school, level of education, income, position, experience as leaders, previous leadership position. how they become leaders, institutionalised visit, official visit. and number of family members working as government servants as independent variables. In addition, their expected and actual roles were also taken into account as independent variable. The four characteristics of Transformational Leadership: Individualised Consideration, Inspiration Motivation, Intellectual Stimulation and Idealised. Influenced were chosen as dependent variables. The data was statistically analysed using SPSS version 6.01. The findings of this study indicate that there were low to moderate levels Transformational Leadership Characteristics amongst the community leaders in the three resettlement areas. Pearson's Correlation Coefficient `r.' revealed that there was no significant correlation between all the independent variables and the dependent variables, except for the level of education and Intellectual Stimulation.

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