Employers tend to look at job candidates' abilities to communicate effectively and to assess their talents to solve complex problems as a team player. The ability to work in teams also known as coalition building, is regarded as one of the most important criteria before getting employment. The main goal of this study was to examine the predictors of employee mindset (cosmopolitanism, cognitive complexity, entrepreneurial mindset, boundary spanning, adaptability, creative thinking and work culture) towards employee coalition building at government-link companies (GLCs). Employees from five government-link companies namely Khazanah, Proton, Axiata, MAS, and EPF involved in this study. A correlational design was used and data was collected using quota sampling. A set of four-sectioned questionnaires was used to collect information from employees and was analyzed to ascertain its reliability, correlation and regression values. The findings revealed that six out seven variables had significant and positive relationships with coalition building which are cosmopolitanism, cognitive complexity, entrepreneurial mindset, boundary spanning, adaptability, and creative thinking but one had negative, small but significant relationship which was work culture. It was also found that Entrepreneurial Mindset, Cosmopolitanism and Boundary Spanning predicted positively towards coalition building (beta=0.752, p<0.01, beta=0.059, p<0.01 and beta=0.057, p<0.01) consecutively, while three other sub-variables (Adaptability, Work Culture and Creative Thinking Skills) predicted negatively towards coalition building. The researchers made a few recommendations on how to enhance employee mindset and coalition building. Employers are encouraged to study their employees' behavior by observing, encouraging and rewarding employees who display innovative work culture and show great affiliation with colleagues. In addition, the researchers suggest larger sample size for future research.
