Community development places emphasis on community members¡¦ cooperation, to which the role of a leader is a key factor. In other word, leadership has great impact on community development. Researchers look to gain a deeper understanding on leadership in community development. Through assessing their background, character, role-awareness and performance, as well as their social experience in the community setting, researchers examine and compare the social capital that each community leader accumulates.
To interpret quantified research result, this researcher engaged in literature review and in-depth interviews. In the three general surveys conducted, ninety community leaders were selected to answer the questionnaire survey. After analysis, they are categorized as natural leaders, hereditary leaders, situational leader, and behind-the-curtain leaders.
The research findings include: 1. different leader type results in different amount of social capital accumulated. 2. Social capital generated by leaders is different based upon their character. 3. Leader¡¦s role-awareness also influences the amount of social capital generated. 4. Leader¡¦s performance impacts the amount of social capital generated. 5. Leader¡¦s social experiences also influence the amount of social capital generated. 6. Gender difference impacts the amount of social capital generated. 7. Female are often behind-the-curtain leaders, thus they are often not as productive in social capital accumulation as compared to their male counterparts. 8. A regression model of social capital can be built based on the variables of community leader¡¦s role-awareness, performance and social experience.
This research has weakness in theoretical construct and methodological method. The author would like to propose some suggestions as follows. When doing research on this field, researchers are always limited by inevitable obstacles. A comparison among the districts in Kaohsiung is suggested to be conducted and later, a comparative analysis of community leaders between Taipei and Kaohsiung is to be followed. Moreover, there is little research regarding community leaders, let alone the character analysis of community leaders in terms of social capital. It is suggested that the occupation of the leader¡¦s spouse and the leader¡¦s devotion to community service be included in independent variables for the further research.
The author provides suggestions for further studies as follow:
1. Further researchers who have further interest in this field can adopt the questionnaires in this study to design their survey questionnaire.
2. The model of accumulating social capital can be used by the further researchers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0624105-162728 |
| Date | 24 June 2005 |
| Creators | CHEN, Hsin-Hsin |
| Contributors | Chang-Kuei Lee, C. Lee, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0624105-162728 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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