The Effects of Personality Traits,Gender - Role, and Cognize of Organizational Change on Transformational Leadership -A Perspective of Female leaders

• Main Authors: Mei-lin Yu, 余美玲
• Other Authors: Ming-chu Yu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/98067964461812494664

碩士 === 國立成功大學 === 經營管理碩士學位學程 === 97 === The following equal of male and female and conscious of raise up that means of leader should be get into new age. The issue of which factor that determines a successful leader has been constantly discussed by the researchers. In general, the leadership theories can be differentiated into four types: trait theory, power theory, behavioral theory, and contingency theory. None of the individual type of leadership theories mentioned above can be used to explain or be applied to the modern environments. Transformation leadership is the most recommended leadership style by many scholars to be adapted by the current variable environments. Researchers also think that personality traits can be applied to prediction of individual behavior. Based upon what is mentioned above, this research tries to analyze that how personality traits and gender role affect the use of the transformation leadership theories by individuals. Two independent variables, Big Five including agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness, extraversion, and neuroticism and gender role including masculine, feminine, androgynous, and on-differentiation, are adopted to study the relationships with transformation leadership. The research is based upon the survey of managers from different business levels in the manager refresher classes by National Cheng Kung University AMBA and EMBA students from one private university in northern Taiwan. Two hundred questionnaires were released either by direct distribution or by mail, and the retrieved valid questionnaires are calculated up to 133 of 141 copies. The findings of the study are the following: The individuals with stronger agreeableness trait own stronger transformation leadership trait. 2. The individuals with stronger conscientiousness trait own stronger intellectual stimulation trait of transformation leadership. 3. Both individuals with stronger openness and extraversion trait own stronger inspirational motivation trait of transformation leadership. 4. The neuroticism traits are significantly related to transformation leadership and related to transformation leadership due to its significance