Relationship between transformational leadership components and talent retention among academic staff of public research universities in Malaysia

Ong, Su Kai and Teh, Kim Hao and Chan, Sin Er (2025) Relationship between transformational leadership components and talent retention among academic staff of public research universities in Malaysia. Final Year Project, UTAR.

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Abstract

Generally known, there is a certain level of importance of transformational leadership and talent retention within the organizational growth and development of the future economy. The objective of this research is set to understand the relationship between transformational leadership components and talent retention among academic staffs in public research universities in Malaysia. In this research, the independent variables are individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, and idealized influence, while determining their direct relationship with dependent variable, talent retention. The scope of our targeted sample size and subject to study is among the academic staffs from the 5 public research universities in Malaysia, which includes UM, UKM, UPM, UTM, and USM, and 229 questionnaire respondents are successfully collected. With the aid from Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) Software to run the reliability tests, explaining the correlation coefficient, and testing of each hypothesized relationship between the existing variables. After experimenting and analysis, the results shown from Pearson Correlation Coefficient and Multiple Linear Regression Analysis determine the significant positive relationship between all the existing independent variables (individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, and idealized influence) and our dependent variable (talent retention). This study is done for the belief in enhancing the literature gap since there are lack of focus within the talent retention on academic staffs of Malaysian public research universities. Keywords: transformational leadership; talent retention; individualized consideration; intellectual stimulation; inspirational motivation; idealized influence; public research universities; academic staffs Subject Area: HD56-57.5 Industrial productivity

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