Proceedings of 32nd International Business Research Conference
23 - 25 November, 2015, Rendezvous Hotel, Melbourne, Australia, ISBN: 978-1-922069-89-4
Self-Leadership in the UAE
Muhra R Al Muhairi, Chowdhury Hossan, Mohammad Parakandi and
Konstantinos Eleftheriou
The aim of this study is to provide an overview of the nature of self-leadership in the UAE
(United Arab Emirate). It stresses the uses of self-leadership perceptions in the public
and private sectors. The study includes employees from different nationalities and
backgrounds working in UAE. This research allows a pioneer examination of selfleadership in the UAE through the use of the RSLQ (revise self-leadership
questionnaire). The research questionnaire also includes main demographic variables for
the leader such as age, gender nationality, education, experience and sector (private or
public). 311 participants completed the questionnaire. The research has found that the
demographic variables have significant relationship with several constraints of selfleadership. Age is significantly related with most of self-leadership constraints including
self-goal, visualize successful performance, self-reward and self-cueing. Gender of the
leader has a significant relationship with only two constructs namely self-talk and selfcueing. The same result was found in case with Nationality which is significantly related
with self-reward and self-learning. Education of the leader has significant relationship with
self-talk and visualize successful performance. Similarly, the leader experience and his
sector are significantly related with visualize successful performance. The result of the
study shows an acceptable and satisfactory level of self-leadership is present in middle
management employee in the UAE.
Fields of Research: Self-leadership, UAE, Middle management, self-goal setting, selfobservation, self-cueing, self-reward and self-learn.
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Muhra R Al Muhairi, Doctoral Candidate, College of Business Administration, Abu Dhabi University
Abu Dhabi, UAE, E-mail: muhra.almuhairi@gmail.com
Dr Chowdhury Hossan and Dr Mohammad Parakandi, Assistant Professor of Management, College of
Business Administration, Abu Dhabi University, Abu Dhabi, UAE, E-mail: chowdhury.hossan@adu.ac.ae
Dr Konstantinos Eleftheriou, Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Piraeus, Piraeus, Greece.