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The relationship among leadership styles, fllower`s job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior: taking the fire brigade of Kaohsiung as example

Although we are in 21st century, we still face the threat of fire. Some serious fires happen all over the world frequently. For the location of Taiwan, there are many natural disasters like earthquakes, typhoons, landslides and mudflows on Taiwan recently. The fireman plays an important role to protect the human being and their properties at the disaster scence, so the job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior of fireman make a decisive influence on the performance of rescue activities. The station officer is the soul of the fire brigade, his leadership style influence the performance of firemen deeply. In the study, I make the subject how the leadership styles influence follower`s job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior, the group cohesion and personality as the moderating variances. The fire brigade of Kaohsiung as the survey object, through the questionnaire and statistic analysis, I try to treat how the leadership style influence the follower`s job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior, and give some suggestions to the fire department, in the study indicate that:
1. A significant positive correlation was identified among leadership styles and job involvement; the inspirational motivation has positive influence on follower`s job involvement.
2. A significant positive correlation was identified among leadership styles, altruism, courtesy, civic virtue and conscientiousness; the idealized influence was positive influence on altruism, the intellectual stimulation was positive influence on courtesy, civic virtue and conscientiousness.
3. The internal-external personality was found to have no significant moderating effect among leadership styles, job involvement and organizational citizenship behavior.
4. The group cohesion was found to have a significant moderating effect among relationship of inspirational motivation and job involvement,
5. The group cohesion was found to have a significant moderating effect among relationships of individual consideration and organizational citizenship behavior.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0203106-164504
Date03 February 2006
CreatorsKao, Wen-Tsung
ContributorsJin-Feng Uen, none, none
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-0203106-164504
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