In order to survive in the competitive environment and keep substantial development for business, more and more organizations pay attentions to the concept that human beings are the important capital in the organizations. In this case, trying to understand and improve employees¡¦ satisfaction and need, and keeping a good relationship with employees to improve employees¡¦ productivity are the very important issues today for many organizations.
Salespersons, who act as the organization impression, and responsible for sales performance and business target, do play a very important role in an organization. Accordingly, how to motivate salesperson to achieve organizational business target is undoubtedly important today.
Besides improving salespersons¡¦ professional competence, the leadership style of line managers is thought to significantly influence the salespersons¡¦ performance. The leadership style of line managers, is the independent variable, job performance as dependent variable, and job satisfaction and organizational commitment are moderators in this study. Accordingly, we are going to discuss the relationship between leadership style of line managers and salespersons¡¦ performance. Moreover, the mediating effect of job satisfaction and organizational commitment between leadership style of line managers and employees¡¦ performance will be analysed in this study.
The result is stated as below:
1. The relationship between leadership style and salespersons¡¦ job performance:
First, the result indicates that the transformational leadership of line managers is positively related to the salespersons¡¦ job performance, which implies the higher level of transformational leadership the line managers have, the higher level of job performance the salesperson can reach.
Second, the result indicates that the contingent reward leadership of line managers is positively related to salespersons¡¦ job performance, which implies that the higher level of contingent reward leadership the line managers have, the higher level of job performance the salesperson can reach.
2. The mediating effect of salespersons¡¦ job satisfaction between the leadership style of line managers and salespersons¡¦ job performance.
First, the salespersons¡¦ job satisfaction mediates the relationship between line managers¡¦ transformational leadership and salespersons¡¦ job performance.
Second, the salespersons¡¦ job satisfaction mediates the relationship between line managers¡¦ contingent reward leadership and salespersons¡¦ job performance.
3. The mediating effect of organizational commitment between the leadership style of line managers and salespersons¡¦ job performance.
First, the salespersons¡¦ organizational commitment mediates the relationship between line managers¡¦ transformational leadership and salespersons¡¦ job performance.
Second, the salespersons¡¦ organizational commitment mediates the relationship between line managers¡¦ contingent reward leadership and salespersons¡¦ job performance.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0624107-161804 |
| Date | 24 June 2007 |
| Creators | Lo, Shih-fang |
| Contributors | Jin-feng, Uen, Shyh-jer, Chen, Liang-chih, Huang |
| 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-0624107-161804 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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