03198ntm a2200301 i 4500001001400000003000700014005001700021008004100038020002200079040002300101100002300124245013100147264003400278300008000312336002100392337002500413337002300438338002300461338003000484347002400514500003700538502008700575504004000662520208700702610005202789650004402841650001102885vtls000104337KUKTEM20251117113404.0180719s2018    my da  f am   000 0 eng d  aTHE0000062(Local)  aUMPbengcUMPerda1 aLi, Feng,eauthor.10aLinking leaders’ personality, leadership style and employee engagement :bevidence from SMES at Kuantan, Malaysia /cFeng Li 1aKuantan, Pahang :bUMP,c2018  axiii, 190 pages :billustrations (some color), charts ;c30 cm. +e1 CD-ROM  atext2rdacontent  aunmediated2rdamedia  acomputer2rdamedia  avolume2rdacarrier  acomputer disc2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda  aFaculty of Industrial Management  aThesis (Master of Science in Human Resource) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang -- 2018  aIncludes bibliographical references3 aNowadays, leaders and subordinates are key issues in building and sustaining business operations especially in the Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs). However, it is commonly found that their employees are disengaged as the turnover rate keeps on increasing. The potential reasons are the ineffective leadership styles which is related to leader’s personality. Hence, this research was conducted to identify the relationship between the leaders’ personalities, leadership styles and employee engagement in SMEs specifically at Kuantan Pahang Malaysia. There are five personality studies in this research which are Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness and Neuroticism; three types of leadership style were adopted, namely Task-Oriented, Relations-Oriented and Change-Oriented. Meanwhile, it also covers three elements of employee engagement which are vigor, absorption and dedication. Two sets of questionnaires were developed and distributed to the managers and their subordinates respectively. A total of 160 leaders and 320 subordinates participated in this study. The statistic results showed that Conscientiousness trait and Task-oriented leadership styles are most popular among the surveyed leaders. Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion and Neuroticism are positively related with Task-Oriented, Relations-Oriented and Change-Oriented leadership. Meanwhile, Extraversion is the most contributor to Task-Oriented Leadership Style and only Agreeableness is negatively related to Task-Oriented and Relations-Oriented leadership Style. Furthermore, five personalities and three types of leadership styles are positively correlated with employee engagement. Only Extraversion and Conscientiousness are contributor to employee engagement and Extraversion is more than Conscientious. Hence, organizations can use the personality test to recruit or promote the preferred leaders either in the aspect of leader’s personality or leadership style, to enhance the effectiveness of employee engagement towards achieving organizational competitiveness.20aFaculty of Industrial ManagementxDissertations 0aUniversities and collegesxDisertations 0aTheses