%I Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
%K LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION IN SIME SEMBAWANG ENGINEERING SDN. BHD. PASIR GUDANG, JOHOR.
%T LEADERSHIP STYLES AND THEIR INFLUENCE ON THE LEARNING ORGANIZATION IN SIME SEMBAWANG ENGINEERING SDN. BHD. PASIR GUDANG, JOHOR.
%D 2001
%L iab_repo827
%A Abd. Gani Nor Azan
%X This study is an attempt to address the relationship between leadership styles and their influence on the learning organization in SSE Sdn Bhd. Pasir Gudang, Johor. It also strives to measure the state of learning organization SSE Sdn. Bhd is at. The specific objectives of the study were to examine the degree of learning activities advocated by Garvin (1993) in his "Building-Blocks" . They are transferring knowledge, learning from others, learning from past experience, experimenting with new approaches and systematic problem solving. These are equated to learning organization. 
In addition, Hersey-Blanchard's situational leadership theory (1977) postulating four leadership styles of telling, selling, participating and delegating is employed to identify the dominant leadership style that governs SSE Sdn. Bhd. Finally, the relationship between the independent variable of leadership styles and learning organization being the dependent variable is looked at. 
From the perception of the 130 respondents, it was revealed that of the five learning activities, systematic problem solving is the only practice implemented at a high level in SSE Sdn. Bhd. Learning from others, learning from past experience and experimenting with new approaches is applicable at a moderate range whilst the least practiced activity is transferring knowledge, denoting this to be in the low level. 
Findings reflect that the leadership style dominant in SSE Sdn. Bhd is the participating style. The magnitude of the relationship between leadership styles and learning organization is a significant positive moderate one.