An Explanatory Study on Management Quality, Innovation and Long Term Orientation Towards Company Performance in Malaysia

Mashaal Abdullah Mohammed Saif

doi:10.11648/j.ijls.20180102.14

Abstract

The study aims to investigate the relationship between quality of management, innovation and long term orientation towards company performance in high performing organisations in Malaysia. Using convenience based sampling methods authors have used quantitative methodology, where total set of n=120 questionnaires have been distributed amongst top 30 high performing organisations listed in Bursa Malaysia. Authors have used statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) to conduct data analysis using descriptive and inferential statistics. Descriptive statistics has been used to conduct demographic analysis of respondents catered by researcher to ensure adequate sampling techniques, whereas inferential statistical analysis has been conducted to make analysis for the variables included in the study. Authors have used Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis to interpret the results. The research findings reveal that only innovation and long term orientation has significant relationship towards company performance in high performing organisation in Malaysia, whereas quality of management is not significant towards company performance in high performing organisations.

Highlights

Management is an important driver of high organization performance as it is responsible for the coordination of organizational resources to provide goods and service to clients in exchange of value [1]
As the output shows that IV (1) management quality is weakly correlated with company performance in high performing organization (HPO) in Malaysian context with the positive coefficient value of r=0.479, IV (2) innovation is strongly correlated with company performance in high performing organization (HPO) in Malaysian context with the positive coefficient value of r=0.608, IV (3) long term orientation is strongly correlated with company performance in high performing organization (HPO) in Malaysian context with the positive coefficient value of r=0.593 as it can be seen in the following Table 3
Findings of inferential statistics indicates that innovation and long term orientation are strongly positive correlated with company performance in high performing organization (HPO) with the correlation coefficient value r=>0.5 (r=0.601 and r=0.593 respectively), management quality is weakly correlated with company performance in high performing organization (HPO) with the correlation coefficient value less than r=

Summary

Introduction

Management is an important driver of high organization performance as it is responsible for the coordination of organizational resources to provide goods and service to clients in exchange of value [1]. Organization performance is all about achieving organization related outcomes in context of strategic goals, customer satisfaction and economic contributions. Management is a life line of organization irrespective of size to ensures that organization performs exceptionally while achieving its tactical, operational and strategic goals by means of organizing, controlling, directing coordinating and leading [3]. Increase in demand from company stakeholder have created immense pressure on management to achieve competitive advantage on the basis of price, quality, flexibility, delivery times, and after sales support [4]. These elements are the means of achieving competitive advantage, which differentiates high performing organizations (HPO) from their other counterparts. Performing driven organizations as an enterprise which differentiates itself from other organizations in the context of financial performance, high productivity, innovation, leadership and satisfied internal and external customers [5]

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