A Study on the Leadership Behavior of Duty Army's Commanding Officer for MND

• Main Authors: Chin-chien Tai, 戴志謙
• Other Authors: Mu-Lan Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2005
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/76773400663700626081

碩士 === 世新大學 === 行政管理學研究所(含博、碩專班) === 93 === In order to achieve the goal of an organization, someone has to lead it and this “leading” person is the leader. The creation of a leader may possibly result from an appointment by the organization with legal Act or election among members of the organization. Despite the cause of creation, all leaders are capable of influencing other people to perform actions beyond the command of official power. Leadership is the inevitable function of an organization and since the organization is constituted from people and the system, there is always a leader in a group. Such leader can be naturally produced by commanding other members in the organization or elected by members in the organization. No matter how the leader is created, he/she has to apply adequate methods to lead members in the organization and complete the goal. Looking at each fighting force in the army, most of the general administrational duty is carried out by personnel in the force; the exclusive Duty Army is only seen at the high command unit, i.e. each military category of General Commanding Department of the R.O.C. Army and Ministry of National Defense (MND). Accordingly, this study tries to discuss the leadership behavior of the Duty Army's Commanding Officer for MND, which expects to establish an academic structure of theory relating leadership behavior and efficiency of the Duty Army's Commanding Officer for MND. Policy-wise, we wish to provide a reference to personnel in the relevant decision-making unit for improving the leadership behavior of the Duty Army's Commanding Officer for MND. Practical-wise, the participating investigator may understand theory of leadership via this study, which can be used as a basis of future practice of leadership. In the aspect of samples taken for this study, tasks carried out by Duty Army are based on general administrations such as guarding, driving, cleaning and food preparation in the camp for headquarters (commanding office) of each force, which is different from tasks such as physical fitness and training of combat techniques for general forces. Such Duty Army is in charge of administrational and duty support in the assistant unit in each force. The questionnaires distributed for this study include 200 copies for A-Squadron and 200 copies for B-Squadron, for a total of 400 questionnaires. Deducting the duty officers, 360 questionnaires (inclusive of 167 copies from A-Squadron and 193 copies from B-Squadron) were retrieved at the end with a retrieval rate of 90%. After deducting 30 copies of invalid questionnaires (i.e. person interviewed with incomplete answers), there were 330 copies of valid questionnaires retrieved and the overall retrieval rate of valid questionnaires was 91.7%. The results of the study reveal that in each structural phase of leadership behavior, the level of “systematic type” (M＝3.73) for leadership behavior of commanding officer detected by subordinate is higher than “sympathetic type” (M＝3.41). This shows that subordinates think the commanding officer leads Duty Army with a “systematic type” of behavior. From each structural phase of leadership efficiency, it was found that subordinates detect a higher level of “rate of goal achievement” than “satisfaction of subordinate” for leadership efficiency of the chief officer. This shows that the subordinate reckons the commanding officer will complete the mission first, and then achieve satisfaction for the subordinates. From the result of this study, it is known that there is a link between leadership behavior and efficiency for the commanding officer of the Duty Army in the high command unit. Although the subordinates may differ in personal background and there is a difference between leadership behavior and efficiency for the commanding officer detected, and satisfaction is shown toward the leadership behavior of the commanding officer for the squadron.