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The Effect of Female Leaders¡¦ Personality Traits and Leadership Styles on the Leadership Effectiveness- Exemplified by Southern Electronic Media Centers

In recent years, our society changes rapidly. The position of females in Taiwan have been promoted significantly. The situation induces the raise of the awakening of feminist consciousness. After that, females gets more opportunities to show off all of their talents, and generally become managers or leaders at workplace. The phenomenon caused many discussions and researches, and really highlights the importance of the topic of today's female leaders. How a leader shows the leadership performance could decide the success of the organizational development. Also, we know through the relevant literature that a leader¡¦s personality traits and leadership styles are not only an important issue in the organizational behavior study, but also the key elements of leadership effectiveness.
Therefore, the purpose of this study is to inquire the relationship among female leaders¡¦ personality traits, leadership styles and leadership effectiveness by the subordinates cognition in southern electronic media centers. The questionnaire of the study is divided into two parts: the leader questionnaire and the subordinate questionnaire. Total of 215 out of 250 questionnaires were returned. (There are 38 out of 40 from leader questionnaires, and 177 out of 200 from subordinate questionnaires.) The data are analyzed by a variety of statistical methods, such as descriptive statistic, factor analysis, reliability analysis, and regression analysis, etc. The statistical analyses had concluded as followed¡G
1. The hypothesis that the female leaders¡¦ personality traits are significant effect on their leadership effectiveness is partially supported. In accordance with the order of the influence on leadership effectiveness, ¡§Conscientiousness¡¨, ¡§Agreeableness¡¨, and ¡§Openness to Experience¡¨ are the main significantly indicators to predict leadership effectiveness.
2. The hypothesis that the female leaders¡¦ leadership styles are significant effect on their leadership effectiveness is partially supported. ¡§Consideration¡¨is the only significantly indicators to predict leadership effectiveness.
3. Consider the female leaders¡¦ personality traits and the leadership styles at the same time, ¡§Conscientiousness * Initiating Structure¡¨ and ¡§Emotional Stability * Consideration¡¨ have a significant effect on the leadership effectiveness. Thus, the leadership styles have mediator effects between the personality traits and leadership effectiveness.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0903112-004433
Date03 September 2012
CreatorsChung, Yun-yen
ContributorsJen-Jsung Huang, I-Heng Chen, Min-Hsin Huang
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0903112-004433
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