Abstract

The aim is to conceptualize what makes for effective leadership in the Klang Valley IT sector. All industries need effective leadership; it ought to be brought up in the workplace. Employee motivation and performance could be improved through effective leadership. Additionally, employees are more committed to the organization, while lowers the turnover rate. Under successful leadership, an organization’s output and revenue can increase. The unethical behaviour by leaders who lack drive, confidence, foresight, and communication skills affects most industries. Perhaps these traits (ethics, motivation, trustworthiness, vision, and good communication) put things in perspective and provide direction as the author takes this challenging journey through a setting that only gets trickier as the person rises to the leadership level within the firm. This study will be able to improve leadership effectiveness through the issues’ goals. About 225 thousand people were working in the Malaysian IT sector. Each hypothesis has been observed and demonstrated. The substantial result was supported for each hypothesis from the previous study. In this instance, the conceptualized study has assessed and carried out fundamental analyses like descriptive, reliability, and validity analysis to determine how dependable the variables are for future research. The findings show that these dimensions (ethics, motivation, trust, vision, and good communication skills) are the essential elements of effective leadership. This study gave organizations and sectors reasons to raise employee levels of effective leadership to meet organizational goals and improve the attitudes and behaviours of leaders. Although there are many opportunities for exciting theoretical advancement and significant policy ramifications in this field of study, strict ethical guidelines must follow to have effective leadership quality in the IT sector. The novel aspect of this study is vision, which is a crucial element of the new leadership strategy. Followers and changes are prepared for their vision and are always necessary for this method.

Keywords: ethics, good communication skills, motivation, trustworthy, visionary, IT sector.

JEL Classification: L29, J50, M12, M15.

Cite as: Vasudevan, H (2022). Management and Leadership in the Klang Valley IT Sector: Conceptual Approach Marketing and Management of Innovations, 3, 56-65. https://doi.org/10.21272/mmi.2022.3-05

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