A Study on the Relationship between Benevolent Leadership and Employee Behavior of the Family Business:Supervisor Identification as a Mediator

• Main Authors: Chia-Yi Lin, 林佳怡
• Other Authors: Liang-Chih Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/90457469700903705684

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 勞工關係學系暨研究所 === 101 === The purpose of this study is to explore the relationships among benevolent leadership of the family business, obedience, proactive behavior, and identification with supervisor. In order to understand the relationships, the questionnaires are conducted to collect data and the suitable statistical analysis methods are used to analyze data in the study. And then 404 questionnaires were distributed in the first stage and 396 valid questionnaires collected. In the second stage, 396 questionnaires were distributed in the study, and 353 valid questionnaires ultimately. There is a 87% return rate. Multivariate analytical results indicated as follows: 1.Benevolent leadership of the family business can lead the competent employees to identification. 2.Benevolent leadership of the family business helps to improve the employees to generate proactive behavior and obedience. 3.Identification with supervisor has a mediating effect between benevolent leadership and obedience. 4.Identification with supervisor has a mediating effect between benevolent leadership and proactive behavior. Finally, the empirical survey was conducted. The findings showed that there is significant positive effect of benevolent leadership on relational identification, and employees highly identifying with their supervisor are more likely to engage in proactive behavior as well as obedience for shaping good soldiers image in supervisor’s minds. It also reminds supervisors to face "benevolent leader" that is a key element in the operation of the organization and its possible impact. Finally, the concrete conclusions and suggestions were provided as the references. In addition, the suggestion of future research was also provided at the end of the paper.