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It is crucial for an employer to acknowledge the importance of having transformational leaders in the organization, as they have the ability to inspire, encourage, and motivate the employees to create meaningful and significant changes. Transformational leadership has been mentioned as one of the factors that can influence an employee to perform better at the workplace or vice versa in the past studies. However, there were inconsistent findings on the relationship between the two variables and there is still limited study in the context of manufacturing companies in Malaysia. Hence, this paper attempts to investigate the effect of transformational leadership on job performance among employees in a manufacturing company located at northwestern of Peninsular Malaysia. This study adopted a correlational research design which using 117 technicians from one studied manufacturing company as the respondent of this study. The instrument used to measure the transformational leadership level was the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire whereas, for the job performance level, it was the Individual Work Performance Questionnaire. The data collected were then analyzed by using descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling analysis. The results revealed that the levels of transformational leadership and job performance among the studied respondents were at a high level. It was also found that there was a significant effect of transformational leadership on job performance in the studied company. For future research, it is recommended to involve various companies within the manufacturing sector as more diversified locations can be obtained. This lead to a more comprehensive understanding of future trends, challenges, and opportunities of the studied variable in Malaysia’s manufacturing sector.
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