Transformational Leadership: Winning Competencies for Organizations
Hussam Fares Abushawish, Abdul Jalil Bin Ali, Hazri Bin Jamil
This review paper explores transformational leadership and predicts its skills and qualities to be crucial antecedents for organizational effectiveness in organizations. A substantial body of literature on transformational leadership was reviewed and the findings revealed that the transformational leadership skills and qualities are vital to lead organizations through change and increase their ability to achieve success and expansion in their environments. The primary impact of transformational leadership on organizational effectiveness is attributed to the transformational skills and qualities which increase organizational capability to effectively address forceful challenges and changes in their environments.
Issues and Challenges of ERP Implementation in Malaysian SMES
Neda Fatemeh Alsadat Mirbagheri, Govindan Marthandan
Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has been embarked in companies to integrate available data and create better solutions. Although, miscellaneous outputs worked out while system has been performing, expected benefits did not expose by high investment especially in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This empirical study analyses the significant failure factors of ERP implementation within organizational and managerial plus technological issues‟ classification through data collection which is based on a combination of questionnaire and interview method from 62 respondents in 37 SMEs who have failed ERP experience in Malaysia, however the questionnaire has been sent to more than 300 SMEs through Malaysia. The research identifies issues and challenges of ERP implementation regarding considered critical failure factors while the paper extracting those factors with a higher degree of importance for implementation in SMEs amid classification to derive success running from failure factors in further implementation.