Leadership style in NGO’S in Kuching/ Jilum Makup… [et.al.]

Non Governmental Organization (NGO’s) has been currently in the highlight especially in the mass media. This shows that there were certain elements that make their present feels by the societies. With this it was then made compulsory to have all these NGOs to be registered by the Registrar of Societies under Societies Act. However, as in other entities, sometimes these NGOs may be outstanding and sometimes in the limelight. Some were active, some were inactive, some were deregistered and some were newly registered. These may be due to the leadership styles in the NGO itself. Random samples from 120 personnel were taken from various categories of NGOs to state the leaderships styles of their NGOs based on the questionnaires given. It was indicate that many of the leaders in NGOs having the transformational styles of leadership as NGOs becoming important in discussing matters involving the well being of the societies. The study however, could not provide strong evidence of leadership styles as most respondent were taking a safe level of answer to the questionnaires. Transformational styles of leadership were widely advocates by the NGO’s leader in Kuching. Its important that, step must be taken to ensure their effectiveness so that its existence remains.