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A Study on the Relationships among Employee Personality, Self-Directed Learning, and Work Performance

This study discussed the relationships among employee personality, self-directed learning, and work performance. Samples are from people who serve in businesses, answer questionnaires with four main aspects, including Internal-External Scale, Self-Directed Learning Readiness Scale, Performance, and background data.
The analysis results showed the following findings:
1. The differences of self-directed learning due to different personal background.
a. Sex, age, education, department, level, work experience do not show significant differences on self-directed learning.
b. The middle and high level manager are higher self-directed learning.
c. People who had training in the past year are higher self-directed learning.
d. People who had training or advanced study out of their own needs before are higher self-directed learning.
2. People with internal locus of control are higher self-directed learning.
3. People with internal locus of control have better performance.
4. People who are efficient and autonomous learner have better performance.
5. Employee¡¦s self-directed learning is influenced by locus of control, and it further influences performance.
6. Employee¡¦s self-directed learning is not influenced by his/her management level, and it won¡¦t influence performance further.
7. Employee¡¦s self-directed learning is influenced by his/her attending training in the last year, and it further influences performance.
8. Employee¡¦s self-directed learning is not influenced by his/her experience having training or advanced study out of his/her own needs before, and it won¡¦t influence performance further.
According the findings, this research suggests:
1. Business can use personality measurements and Self-Directed Learning measurements as tools of selection.
2. Business should give employees more autonomy and resources assistance in the human development programs.
3. Business should give employees developmental opportunities in equality.
4. Employees should have the attitude being responsible to their own learning.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0622103-010921
Date22 June 2003
CreatorsYu, Ya-Ping
ContributorsKuo Jen Su, Jin Feng Uen, Liang-Chih Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0622103-010921
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