The impact of leadership quality, religiosity and job satisfaction on integrity among Royal Malaysian Police-a case study on JIPS

In the face of a changing society, governments seem to keep doing things the same old way. The belief that government is out of touch with people’s needs has undermined the public’s trust in government. To reach the high expectations, government should take a proactive approach to tackle integrity problem, by fulfilling the public’s hopes and transform the way it does business to meet their hopes. Royal Malaysian Police
(RMP) through its Integrity and Compliance Department (JIPS) serve in the interest of the society and follow the principles and good values of a democratic government. This study examined the relationship between leadership quality, religiosity and job
satisfaction. 162 survey questionnaires were collected and used for data analysis in this study. Analysis of the quantitative data suggests that the integrity level of JIPS, RMP officers is at high level which propose factors that influenced their integrity behaviour the most are religiosity, job satisfaction and leadership quality. The presence of leadership quality, religiosity and put together with job satisfaction, are significantly associated with their integrity behaviour. The results also suggest that the relative importance of respondents’ year of employment in predicting integrity behaviour differed according to the integrity areas.