ATTAINING FIRM’S TECHNOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TRANSFORMATION LEADERSHIP
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55197/qjssh.v5i5.444Keywords:
technological sustainability, transformational leadership, employee innovative work behaviour, employee engagement, MalaysiaAbstract
The study aims to investigate how transformational leaders shape the attainment of firm’s technological sustainability (TS) through the effect of employee innovative behaviour and their active engagement in work. The research employed positivism using survey instrument to employees working in the capital city of Malaysia and its vicinity. A total sample of 220 were examined using SPSS and Smart-PLS statistical tools. The results indicated a strong relationship between transformational leaders and firm engagement in technological sustainability (ie SDG 9). It also reaffirmed the power of mediation effect of employee’s innovative behaviour and their work engagement. The findings in this study serve as a guiding framework for leaders, managers and policy makers in ensuring organisations develop and formulate strategies in line with SDG 9 in the betterment of not just the organisations’ continuous improvement in technological sustainability but the benefits to community as well as society at large. To the best of our knowledge, the findings offer a novel framework, in the context of Malaysia, that encumbrance the role transformational leaders play in influencing the achievement of technological breakthroughs and knowledge. Such cohesiveness also demonstrated the important of employee contribution in terms of their innovativeness and active engagement in work.
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