The New Statutory Civil Service in the Maldives: Towards a Decentralized Human Resource Management Model?

Transformational leadership and job performance of Maldives Civil Service employees, mediated by organisational commitment

“…Additionally, the public sector in a small island nation faces challenges, such as a lack of resources, bureaucracy and frustrated employees. Furthermore, the state of democracy observed in the context of the Maldives has created a more politicised environment, resulting in appointing political appointees to the ministerial hierarchy to oversee the job functions of civil service employees (Faizal and Laking, 2019). This creates an interesting scenario unique to the context of the Maldives to understand the impact of transformational leadership on performance dimensions in the context of the Maldives Civil Service, where both civil service and political managers exist in the hierarchy of the Maldives Civil Service.…”

“…Therefore, examining the direct effect of transformational leadership on the job performance of Maldives' civil service employees will address the research gap in a different context, in which the public sector is apparently more politically charged. The boundaries between politics and administration seem blurred, particularly when Senior civil service officials may lack the authority in personal management functions such as recruitment, promotion and termination, as this is subject to political influence, as argued by Faizal and Laking (2019).…”