CMMU Leadership Research at Southeast Asia's Leading Hotel and Resort Group Published by Scopus Journal

A CMMU research report by Associate Professor Dr. Sooksan Kantabutra, entitled Vision-based Leadership at Southeast Asia's Leading Service Enterprise: Etic or Emic?, has been accepted for publication by Journal of Applied Business Research indexed by Scopus.

Corporate leaders are exhorted to espouse vision, but little is known about how vision is realized by leaders at different levels in Southeast Asian service sector. The present study tests relationships between perceived vision communication, motivation of employees and organizational alignment among supervisors, and satisfaction of their immediate subordinates at a headquarters branch of one of Southeast Asia’s leading hotel and resort groups.

Motivation of employees directly predicts improvements in employee satisfaction. Aligning organizational systems is negatively correlated to perceived motivating behavior among hotel supervisors. Surprisingly, vision communication has no significant relationship with employee satisfaction. Future research directions and managerial implications are discussed.

Publication of this SCOPUS-indexed report confirms CMMU's status as a leading business school in Asia.