A Study on the Moderations of Leadership Behavior between Safety Management and Safety Performance : An Example of Petrochemical Industry and Steel Industry in Kaohsuing Area

• Main Authors: Yung-Hung Tseng, 曾永宏
• Other Authors: H. Jason Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2004
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/49003164833668714319

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 企業管理學系研究所 === 92 === Abstract The sustaining management of the enterprise is in addition to increasing productivities and promoting with product quality, should be also based on "Safety". Perfect and systematical management for safe hygiene cannot only improve the industrial safety performance, but also enhance the job-satisfaction. In fact, "person" is just root. Master of management Peter Drucker also point out:"The spirit of the company should be created out by leader". What influence does the different leadership style and effective safety management on the industrial safety performance exactly is the topic of this study. The purpose of this study aims to understand the leadership styles for high-ranking management of each enterprise, the differences under the different background variables, and explore the moderations of leadership style for high-ranking management of each enterprise between industrial safety system and industrial safety performance, job-satisfaction. The scope of the research regard the high-risk industries affirmed by the Industrial Development Bureaus such as steel manufacturing industry, petrochemical industry and chemical industry etc. in Kaohsiung area as the main inquisition object. The valid samples were 88 copies in the aggregate. (Including 30 business units) Through statistic analysis, the major results in the study were as follows: 1. There is a significant positive correlation between industrial safety system, benevolence leadership and the industrial safety performance. The authoritarianism leadership and cognition industrial safety performance have no significant correlation. 2. There is a significant positive correlation between benevolence leadership, industrial safety system and the job-satisfaction. The authoritarianism leadership and job-satisfaction have no significant correlation. 3. The interactive effects between the industrial safety system and benevolence leadership on the industrial safety performance are significant, that means the industrial safety system and the industrial safety performance don’t reveal significant correlation under the interference of benevolence leadership. The benevolence leadership and the industrial safety performance reveal significant positive correlation. In other words, the higher degree benevolence leadership is, and the better industrial safety performance is. 4. The interactive effects between the industrial safety system and authoritarianism leadership on the job-satisfaction are significant, that means the industrial safety system and the job-satisfaction don’t reveal significant correlation under the interference of authoritarianism leadership. The authoritarianism leadership and the job-satisfaction reveal significant negative correlation. In other words, the lower degree authoritarianism leadership is, and the higher job-satisfaction is. So, through the leadership style of the kindness and the management of the participate type, the high-ranking administrators cannot only improve the industrial safety performance effectively by adequate communication and encouragement, but also enhance the employee''s job-satisfaction. On the contrary, through the authoritarianism leadership style, the rather strict management and the commending tone, based upon the conclusions of this study, the high-ranking administrators will not improve the industrial safety performance significantly, but reduce the employee''s job-satisfactions. There was "authoritarianism " characteristic on most of the high-ranking administrators in the Taiwanese enterprises; they should establish the right leadership style on these grounds to promote organization performance successfully.