The Profile and Leadership Styles of Youth in Malaysia

Abstract

Profiling of youth is an important process in youth development as they are the future generation and leader of the country. As youth and leadership represent vital aspects in the development of the nations, it is therefore important to understand youth leadership styles for a better leading by their leaders. There are five leadership styles employed in this research which are autocratic, democratic, laissez-faire, transactional and transformational. The purpose of this paper is to review the profile of Malaysian youth and investigate the youth leadership styles. The quantitative method was used and data was collected through questionnaire with 461 data returned for analysis. Analysis was conducted using statistical software. The findings reveal that democratic dominate the other dimensions and autocratic scores the lowest. Therefore, it is concludes that Malaysian youth display various leadership styles but more preference towards democratic leadership style.