Personal Leadership Competencies of Malaysian Matriculation College Middle Leaders

KUMARAN GENGATHARAN

Abstract


This study aims to obtain expert consensus on the constructs of personal leadership competencies for Malaysia Matriculation College middle leaders using the approach of the Fuzzy Delphi Method (FDM). A list of instruments containing the proposed construct and all the elements are given to 30 experts from various fields and backgrounds. This study's finding indicates that most of the experts agree with the proposed constructs and elements in the personal leadership competencies. The threshold values for all the 14 elements tested met the requirements of d ≤ 0.2. All the expert agreements achieved above the targeted percentage, which is between 75% and 100%. The Alpha-cut value also met the requirement needed between 0.878 and 0.950, which is above the threshold of 0.5 (α-cut ≥ 0.5). Through FDM, the defuzzification process was carried out to rearrange all the elements based on the experts' ranking agreed. This study successfully presents a new construct by considering the crucial elements in middle leaders' competencies in the Malaysian context.

Keywords


Middle leadership Personal leadership Personal competencies Fuzzy Delphi Method

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