This document provides biographical information about Zeti Akhtar Aziz, the first female Governor of the Central Bank of Malaysia. It details her family background, education history, work experience, leadership style, and the types of power she utilizes. Over her 10+ year tenure, Zeti has demonstrated effective leadership through her consideration of employees, domain expertise, ability to build relationships and persuasively influence others, and legitimate authority derived from her high-level position. Her leadership style incorporates theories from the Ohio State Leadership Studies and emphasizes building trust through approachability, clarity of values, and reducing ego-driven behaviors.

1. Nor Syakinah Bt Mohd Kasim
Nor Aqila Bt Yahya
Khairul Amira Bt Khairuddin
JIIM110 1C
Ungku Zeti Akhtar Ungku Abdul Aziz

2. Family Background
Governor, Central Bank of Malaysia
 Tan Sri Dato' Sri Dr. Ungku Zeti Akhtar binti Ungku Abdul
Aziz
Date and Place of birth
 27 OGOS 1947, Johor Bahru, Johor Darul Takzim
Husband
 Dato Dr. Tawfiq Ayman bin Abdullah @ Lee Ban Swee
(A chinese convert to Islam)
Sons
1.Alif Ayman Aziz bin Dato' Tawfiq Ayman
2. Abdul Aziz bin Dato' Tawfiq Ayman

3.  Father
• Royal Professor Ungku Abdul Aziz Bin Ungku Abdul Hamid
(also known as Ungku Aziz)
• Born:28/01/1992 at Hampstead,London
 Mother
• Sharifah Azah Bt Syed Mohammed Alsagoff
(also known as Azah Aziz or Mak Ungku)
• Born:21/08/1928 at Singapore bur broght up in
Johor Darul Ta’zim
• Died:09/07/2012,because of old age and stroke

4. Education Background
Secondary
 1958; Assunta Secondary School Petaling Jaya,
Selangor Darul Ehsan
Higher Education
 1970; Bachelor of Economic (Honours) in Analytical
Economics Universiti Malaya (UM)
 1978; Masters and PhD in Monetary and
International Economics University of Pennsylvania,
USA
Honorary Degree
 01/10/2012; Distinguished Honorary Doctor of
Economy, Universiti Malaya (UM)

5. Working Experience
 Research economist, South-East Asian Central Bank
Research and Training Centre
 Deputy Manager, Economics Department, Central Bank of
Malaysia
 Secretary, Board of Director , Central Bank of Malaysia
 Chief Representative, Bank Negara London Representative
Office
 Head, Economics Department, Central Bank of Malaysia
 Adviser, Central Bank of Malaysia
 Adviser, Bank Negara has been re- designed as Assistant
Garvernor
 Acting Gavernor, Central Bank of Malaysia
 Deputy Garvernor, Central Bank of Malaysia
 Garvernor, Central Bank of Malaysia

6. The Behavior Approach of Leadership
 Ohio State Leadership Studies
• Consideration is the extent to which a leader shows concern
for the welfare of the member of the group.
• This factor is oriented towards interpersonal relationship,
mutual respect and friendly.
 Example : Zeti Akhtar Aziz defines that a good leadership
must not only have good values, but need to have awesome
behavior.
• Good leader should not have ego-driven behavior but to be
friendly and approachable like stated in the Ohio Leadership
Style.
• Builds trust and fortifies relationship by possessing the
graciousness value in leadership style.
• Good leaders must be confident and should have clarity on
their values for the welfare of the team members of the
group.

7. Type of power
 Personal power
Power from interperonal relationships
between leaders and followers
Eg: she will reduce arrognce, sarcasm
and agression in works. She keep a
good relationships with all her staff.
• Expert power
When a leader has signifficant domain
knowledge/skills
Eg: she will teach her workers about
their tasks

8.  Referent power
Influence gained by persuasion
Eg: she will appreciate for what her workers
do in any tasks. She also sometimes will
greet her workers when they bumped
together.
• Positional power
Comes when a leader has a legitimately
held position of author
Eg: she is a Governor’s of Central Bank of
Malaysia so definitely she got the highest
position.

9. Conclusion
As we review about Zeti Akhtar above, it shows that she is a
good leader in conduct of her organizations. Nowadays, we
can see that she still remains as a Governor’s of Central
Bank of Malaysia after about 10’s years. To be a good leader
is not easy as we thought, needs many skills or knowledge to
succeed. She also have many working experience before
she got what she have now. Based on her style of
leadership, we noticed that she is using the Ohio Studies of
theories. She is using this theories to make effectiveness in
her organizations. Last but not least, power also influence in
her style of leadership. She use the right type of power to
coercive or communicate with all her staffs. Hence, all of this
shows that she is one of a best leader in Malaysia also a
historical leader because she is the first lady being a leader
in a big organization. She inspired many woman out there to
being like her

11. References
 http://www.forbes.com/global/2010/1108/power-women-10-zeti-
akhtar-aziz-peggy-liu-women-watch.html
 http://blis.bernama.com/mainHome.do
 http://www.ask.com/wiki/Zeti_Akhtar_Aziz
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example-zeti-akhtar-aziz.html
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12. Effective leadership is not about making speeches
or being liked but leadership is defined by results
not attributes.
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