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LEADERSHIP: HOW TO BE AN EFFECTIVE MANAGER

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 LEADERSHIP: HOW TO BE
AN EFFECTIVE MANAGER ∗

ABDELNASER OMRAN
School of Housing, Building and Planning, 11800, Minden,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang
Email: naser_elamroni@yahoo.co.uk

ABDULLAH MAHMOOD
School of Housing, Building and Planning, 11800, Minden,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang
Email: mabdullah@usm.my

ABDUL AZIZ HUSSIN

School of Housing, Building and Planning, 11800, Minden,
Universiti Sains Malaysia, Pulau Pinang
Email: abdaziz@usm.my

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to examine effective managers Malaysian leadership. The
objective was investigated on how mangers can have better understanding of leadership and
to use it to their advantage. In addition, this paper also examined to what extant Malaysian
leadership ‘managers reflect the level of their social interaction, preference for gathering
data, preference for decision-making, and style of making decisions. Finally, it identified
several ways on how effective managers could reduce the gap between the difference in
their leader to capitalize the strength of their counterparts in order to enhance organization
performance and at the same time grasp new ideas so that it could benefit both sides. This
study attempted to find out the effect of functional and behavioral competences on the
leadership effectiveness in relation to managers in the construction industry in the Penang
and Butterworth states in Malaysia. The finding has shown that all managers surveyed
basically agreed that IT knowledge and the business knowledge are the most crucial
competences that should be acquired to become an effective manager in the construction
industry. On the other hand intraprofessional knowledge of behavioural competences was
found to be the most important for an effective manager.

Keywords:: Leadership, An effective manager, Construction industry, Malaysia.

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Paper presented at the International Conference on Business and Economics (ICBE) held
in Constanta, Romania in November 6-8, 2008

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