Chief Executive Officer (Ceo) Characteristics And Company Performance Of Malaysian Listed Companies

• Main Author: Nurfarhada Aini, Abd Rahim
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2017
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); HG Finance
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37138/2/Nurfarhada%20Aini.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/37138/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

This research focuses on the relationship between Chief Executive Officer (CEO) characteristics and company performance specifically based on Return on Asset (ROA). Using a sample of 241 listed company is examined from 2013 to 2015 in various industry listed on Bursa Malaysia. Some of CEO characteristics variables such as age of CEO, education CEO and experience on tenure were tested in this study. Regression analysis produce significant results for education and experience. Economic study is important to know in potential economic growth of develop conceptual models of behavior to predict responses to changes in policy and market conditions. In experience, the research prove consistent with prior study which is longer CEO that stay for a company for a long time may not care about their job and this may lead to poor performance of the company. The result also shows all control variables such as company size, company age and company leverage has significant relationship with the ROA. This study can be expanded using other CEOs characteristics and other performance measure such as Economic Value Added (EVA), Return on Equity (ROE) and Excess in Value.