Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia

The paper reports the findings of a study conducted in two types of banks in Malaysia, that is, Islamic and conventional and intended to examine differences in employees’ perception of the authenticity in managers’ leadership style, interpersonal and institutional trust and work engagement. It was e...

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Main Authors:	Forbis, Ahamed, Hassan, Arif, Hashim, Junaidah
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English English
Published:	2012
Subjects:	HF5549 Personnel management
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/1/AGBA_UAE.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/4/AGBA_UAE_Conf_Prgrm.pdf

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spelling	iium-251332013-02-13T20:16:24Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/ Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia Forbis, Ahamed Hassan, Arif Hashim, Junaidah HF5549 Personnel management The paper reports the findings of a study conducted in two types of banks in Malaysia, that is, Islamic and conventional and intended to examine differences in employees’ perception of the authenticity in managers’ leadership style, interpersonal and institutional trust and work engagement. It was expected that the faith based culture of Islamic banks will provide a strong organizational impetus to promote greater authenticity in managerial style, facilitate interpersonal and institutional trust, and together these factors should contribute to employees’ work engagement. Sample consisted of 189 employees from Islamic banks and 206 from conventional banks. Results were in the expected direction. Compared to managers of conventional banks managers from Islamic banks were rated as more authentic; hence employees had higher level of interpersonal and institutional trust, and were more engaged in their work. Results are discussed using situational strength construct. 2012-03 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/1/AGBA_UAE.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/4/AGBA_UAE_Conf_Prgrm.pdf Forbis, Ahamed and Hassan, Arif and Hashim, Junaidah (2012) Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia. In: 9th Academy of Global Business Advancement Conference, 19 - 21 Mar 2012, Ajman, UAE. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	HF5549 Personnel management Forbis, Ahamed Hassan, Arif Hashim, Junaidah Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia
description	The paper reports the findings of a study conducted in two types of banks in Malaysia, that is, Islamic and conventional and intended to examine differences in employees’ perception of the authenticity in managers’ leadership style, interpersonal and institutional trust and work engagement. It was expected that the faith based culture of Islamic banks will provide a strong organizational impetus to promote greater authenticity in managerial style, facilitate interpersonal and institutional trust, and together these factors should contribute to employees’ work engagement. Sample consisted of 189 employees from Islamic banks and 206 from conventional banks. Results were in the expected direction. Compared to managers of conventional banks managers from Islamic banks were rated as more authentic; hence employees had higher level of interpersonal and institutional trust, and were more engaged in their work. Results are discussed using situational strength construct.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Forbis, Ahamed Hassan, Arif Hashim, Junaidah
author_facet	Forbis, Ahamed Hassan, Arif Hashim, Junaidah
author_sort	Forbis, Ahamed
title	Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia
title_short	Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia
title_full	Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia
title_sort	authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of islamic and conventional banks in malaysia
publishDate	2012
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/1/AGBA_UAE.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/25133/4/AGBA_UAE_Conf_Prgrm.pdf
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Authentic leadership, trust, and employees’ work engagement: a comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks in Malaysia

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