The main objective of the study is to identify the leadership style that is being practiced by\nlibrarians in university libraries. In this quantitative study, questionnaire was used to collect\ndata from 201 librarians of four universities in Malaysia. The results indicate that librarians are\npractising more on transformational leadership style ((M = 4.01) followed by laissez-faire\nleadership style (M = 3.73). Transactional leadership style (M = 3.67) is the least practised as\ncompared to the transformational and laissez-faire leadership style. In addition, transactional\nleadership style showed significant difference among age groups. The result further indicated\nthat there were significant differences on transformational leadership and transactional\nleadership between levels of positions and working experience of respondents. The outcome of\nthis study is expected to assist practitioners to recognise their styles of leadership and find\nother factors that can help them to engage with subordinates in the organisation.
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