An Empirical Study of the Relationships among Leadership Style, Job-Satisfaction, Job Characteristics, and Demographic factors－Take Marine Corps as the example

• Main Authors: Pei-hai Chang, 張北海
• Other Authors: jrli Lee
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/53926156702833716616

碩士 === 義守大學 === 管理研究所碩士班 === 93 === Republic of Chinese Marin Corps was selected as the target for this study in which aimed to investigate the correlation between the leadership style and job satisfactions. Simultaneously it examined the intermediary effect that tasks characteristic and members attributes have brought to leadership and job satisfactions. Based on the finding, finally, some suggestions are made in practical for the management as further references. The total of 492 questionnaires are used and 457 of them are valid. Several techniques such as Cronbach’, description statistics and regression are used to analyze data. The study findings are list in the following paragraph: The correlation between leadership style and job satisfactions is obvious and positive. Moreover, even different task attribute and member characteristic （rank, title, education）may affect the correlation, however, leadership style still significantly correspond to job satisfactions. High-transformative leadership style will lead to high job satisfaction, while low-transformative leadership style corresponds to low job satisfactions. Despite the leadership style, combat force in average have higher job satisfactions than service-support force. Combat troops are more sensitive to transformative leadership style, while transactional leadership fit better in orderly troops. Educational background and job satisfactions are positively related.