Mediating role of employee engagement between Blue Ocean Leadership and team performance

Abstract

<span lang="EN-US">The study examined the mediating effect of employee engagement between blue ocean leadership and team performance among lecturers. A cross-sectional study design was used, and quantitative data were collected using a structured survey from 2,580 lecturers from the population across the 22 vocational colleges in Malaysia's north zone. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for data analysis. The results revealed a considerable positive relationship between blue ocean leadership and employee engagement, as well as between employee engagement and team performance. Employee engagement, as demonstrated through the use of bootstrapping analysis, acts as a mediator between blue ocean leadership and team performance. The finding supported the Blue Ocean Leadership theory and Social Exchange theory in this study. Future research is be recommended to conduct in other states as well as private institutions to get a comprehensive understanding.</span>

Measuring Blue Ocean Leadership activities in public organizations: field research in the Ministry of Communications

“…It is an approach that is primarily based on implementing the activities and procedures that leaders may reduce and remove from what their subordinates do, and they also work to increase and innovate new procedures to become leaders at a distinguished administrative level (Wan noordiana et al, 2016:14). Blue ocean leadership represents an approach to improving leadership practices that increase unused talent and workforce to drive organizational excellence, and applying leadership practices that make employees feel involved and appreciate their contribution to changing the organization (Oh et al, 2022(Oh et al, :1648. It is also one of the leadership styles that can achieve a targeted transformation with the least time and effort possible, as they focus on employees and their potential and employ their goals towards the activities and businesses through which a strategy can be applied that determines the true value of performance and innovation, by monitoring competition factors and adding new elements that distinguish the organization from its peers (Lyana et al, 2015:75).…”

Employee Engagement: A Literature Review

“…Here are some factors that affect the feel of engagement: Etania (2020), a humanities expert, put forward a slightly different approach related to the benefits of employee involvement, which conceptually means that satisfied employees are not the same as engaged employees. The benefits of employee involvement in the organization; -Better team performance (Oh et al, 2022;Rathore et al, 2023) Employees who are dedicated to what they do not only have a positive impact on themselves, but also on the whole team.…”