Leadership Style Quality Research Articles

Project Management Leadership Assessment: A Review to Propose a Framework

Project stakeholders are always trying to make the project a success, so the factors that influence the project's success become a growing concern and should be appropriately managed. Although various factors influence the success of a project, the project manager, as a leader in organizing, directing, and managing all types of project activities, plays a significant role. This study aims to develop a framework for assessing project management leadership as a factor in project success. The method used in this research is an in-depth literature review. Indicators of leadership factors in the success of project management have been identified, consisting of four main categories: competence of behavioural, intellectual and technical, managerial, and quality of leadership style, with 24 subcategory variables complementing the four main variables. A framework for leadership success factors in project management has been proposed, including ways of assessing, gap analysis, and interpretation of results.

Efektivitas Kerja Anak Buah Kapal Pelni

The purpose of this study is to analyze leadership, and attachment to the effectiveness of the work of the crew of PT Pelayaran Nasional Indonesia (PELNI). The research survey was conducted on 80 ship crew by groups of observation units sampling technique (cluster observation units) or Cluster Systematic Sampling of the entire population of 377 ship crew on ships anchored at the Port of Tanjung Priok. This study uses quantitative approach with path analysis method. The results show that leadership style, and attachment has a positive and direct effect to work effectiveness. The study is expected to benefit PELNI in a way that through the leadership style of its officers, the employee's attachment will improve the working performance of each ship crew. The novelty of this research is on the application of employee engagement model and the effectiveness of the work of the ship crew on the national shipping industry. The outcome of this study is that any changes on the ship officers’ leadership style quality and the attachment will increase directly to the work effectiveness of PELNI's ship crew.

Creative leadership and motivation of university employees

 High quality work of scientific, pedagogical and administrative staff of universities is conditioned by their high motivation and conviction about the meaningfulness of their contribution to the science, students, and society. A deeper examination of academic motivation, made through analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization of theoretical knowledge on leadership and motivation, indicates that motivation is influenced by many objective and subjective, quantitative and qualitative factors. Quality of managers’ influence, respectively creative content of leadership and general managerial facilitation that managers utilize in affecting work behavior and performance of employees can be include to the strongest factors which affect the motivation. Paper is intended to investigate the motivation of universities members and its conditionalities. Methodological part of the paper contains the results of sociological questioning conducted on a sample of 122 employees of University of Zilina and focuses on examining dependence of the leadership style performed from the part of managers and the strength of motivation perceived by the university members. Specifically, three basic leadership styles are examined: authoritative, neutral and participative, versus three basic dimensions of the motivation: motivation to quality work; motivation to increase own knowledge and skills; and motivation to submitting new proposals. Applying chi-square test, the dependence of leadership style and level of motivation was confirmed in all three motivational dimensions; application of creative, participative leadership causes a higher degree of motivation. Subsequently, there is investigated in the paper whether the strength of motivation is also influenced by creating an atmosphere of trust, belongingness and encouraging to new proposals by the manager, and whether creating such a positive atmosphere is affected by the quality of leadership style. Through the use of Pearson’s test and Kendall’s test, dependence was also confirmed. Conclusion of the paper presents a set of recommendations which might be contributive for the universities executives when strengthening the motivation of universities members and improving their competitiveness and contribution to society and its progress.   Keywords: university employees and managers; leadership; motivation; survey, dependence

Creative leadership and motivation of university employees

 High quality work of scientific, pedagogical and administrative staff of universities is conditioned by their high motivation and conviction about the meaningfulness of their contribution to the science, students, and society. A deeper examination of academic motivation, made through analysis, synthesis, comparison and generalization of theoretical knowledge on leadership and motivation, indicates that motivation is influenced by many objective and subjective, quantitative and qualitative factors. Quality of managers’ influence, respectively creative content of leadership and general managerial facilitation that managers utilize in affecting work behavior and performance of employees can be include to the strongest factors which affect the motivation. Paper is intended to investigate the motivation of universities members and its conditionalities. Methodological part of the paper contains the results of sociological questioning conducted on a sample of 122 employees of University of Zilina and focuses on examining dependence of the leadership style performed from the part of managers and the strength of motivation perceived by the university members. Specifically, three basic leadership styles are examined: authoritative, neutral and participative, versus three basic dimensions of the motivation: motivation to quality work; motivation to increase own knowledge and skills; and motivation to submitting new proposals. Applying chi-square test, the dependence of leadership style and level of motivation was confirmed in all three motivational dimensions; application of creative, participative leadership causes a higher degree of motivation. Subsequently, there is investigated in the paper whether the strength of motivation is also influenced by creating an atmosphere of trust, belongingness and encouraging to new proposals by the manager, and whether creating such a positive atmosphere is affected by the quality of leadership style. Through the use of Pearson’s test and Kendall’s test, dependence was also confirmed. Conclusion of the paper presents a set of recommendations which might be contributive for the universities executives when strengthening the motivation of universities members and improving their competitiveness and contribution to society and its progress.   Keywords: university employees and managers; leadership; motivation; survey, dependence

PENGARUH GAYA KEPEMIMPINAN, LINGKUNGAN KERJA DAN KEPUASAN KERJA TERHADAP KOMITMEN (STUDI KLAUSAL DI PT. ASURANSI CENTRAL ASIA)

Asuransi Central Asia. Not infrequently the existence of companies that have advanced collapsed, just because the commitment of employee organizations decreases from day by day. When an employee feels satisfaction in working, of course, he will try as much as possible with all his ability to complete work tasks. Thus the organizational commitment and work results of employees increase optimally. This research uses the path analysis method. The author collected data with a questionnaire of 100 respondents. Respondents are employees of PT Asuransi Central Asia Marketing. Previously tested the instrument using 30 respondents, then testing the analysis requirements using the normality test, linearity test and, homogeneity test. Based on the results and findings above, it can be concluded that the level of quality of Organizational Commitment is influenced by the Leadership Style, Work Environment and Job Satisfaction. Therefore, if the quality of Leadership Style, Work Environment and Job Satisfaction is improved, it will be able to improve the quality of the Organizational Commitment of employees of PT Asuransi Central Asia