| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 人力資源管理研究所在職專班 === 102 === In response to the fierce competition among globalized organizations, not only must product and marketing strategies be competitive, but employee performance also becomes the key to enterprise’s success. In the case of this study, Company A is a mid-sized enterprise, with around 250 employees. While companies are facing the current homogeneous rivals in this operation scale of “Size-Does-Matter”, how can they advance the management capabilities of mid-level managers and the work performance of the entry-level employees in order to compete with their rivals? Mid-level managers are the key to the success of organization management. Managers’ leadership styles and personality traits influence employee’s performance. Understanding the relationship with managers and employees helps the advancement of organization performance greatly. The company in this case study was researched to probe into the association between the personality traits and leadership styles of mid-level managers and the work performance of employees as the guidelines of and the reference to the recruitment of mid-level managers for this company. A survey was conducted on personality traits and leadership styles of mid-level managers and the work performance of employees. 200 questionnaires were issued to sales staff with 179 valid samples.
The result of the survey shows:
1. Statistically significant association is found between personality traits of mid-level managers and work performance of employees.
2. Statistically significant association is found between leadership styles of mid-level managers and the work performance of employees.
In the study, the result of the hierarchical regression analysis can be explained as the high association among two personality traits, conscientiousness and extroversion, leadership of transformation and employee’s high work performance. If it is hope to effectively and properly adjust managers’ personality traits and leadership styles to elevate employee’s performance on the basis of this study, although it is difficult to change managers’ personality traits in the short term, it is possible to educated managers to assist employees with improving performance through management skills and leadership behavior and help managers utilize their positive personality traits to effectively exercise their leadership capabilities.
Keywords: Leadership style, Personality, Job performance, leadership of transformation
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