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The Influence of Leadership, Organizational Culture, and Total Quality Management on the Organizational Performances-- An Empirical Study of Taiwan Sugar Corporation¡¦s Business Divisions

Abstract
According to the report of Robbins (1999), there were very close relationship between leadership and organization culture. Chien (2004) explored the factors of affecting the organization performances by the empirical study of Taiwan¡¦s companies. The results revealed that the model of incentive, leadership, organization culture and environments, job design and human resources strategy could affect the organization performances. Madu, Kuei and Lin (1995) studied the relationship between quality facet and organization performances by the empirical study of American and Taiwan¡¦s manufacturing companies, the results showed that quality facet had apparent relationship to the performances, and there were apparent differences between different operational variables. Many reports revealed that leadership, organization culture and total quality management could affect performances.
Taiwan Sugar Corporation is a traditional sugar production national company at the early stages. Recently, it divided into eight business divisions, such as Sugar Business, Hypermarket Business, Marketing
Business, Petroleum Business, Agriculture Business, Biotechnology Business, Leisure Business and Animal Business. The different leadership, organization culture and total quality management leads each Business Division show different performances during the organization transformation. From the view of organization, study the effects of leadership, organization culture and total quality management on performances can afford some suggestions to the chief executive officers.
Through the empirical study, the results of comparing demography statistic variables in each variable facet such as leadership, organization culture, total quality management and organization performances are described as following¡G
1.Leadership facet:
There are apparent differences in the mixing of transformation and transaction leadership facet among age, education level, position character and business division.
2.Organization culture facet:
There are apparent differences in the bureaucratic culture facet
among position character and business divisions. The differences also exist in the mixing of creative and support culture facet among work years and education level.
3.Total quality management facet:
Biotechnology Business Division is superior to others in employee training and production process management facet and supplier quality management facet. It shows that Biotechnology Business Division faces more competitive environments than other business division, and sells more outside producing products. The leaders make the most on employee training, production process management and supplier quality management topics than other Business Division¡¦s leaders.
4.Organization performances facet:
There are apparent differences in the customer satisfaction level facet among marriage and work years; the apparent differences also exist in the production performances among education level, job assortment and business divisions; the market share performances and gain rate performances also show the differences among business divisions.
Finally, the results show that the leadership influences organization performances through the path of organization culture and total quality management. Organization culture influences organization performances through the path of total quality management. Total quality management influences organization performances directly. Total quality management is the most influential power on organization performances among the above four variables facets.
Keyword: Leadership, Organizational Culture, Total Quality Management

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0611107-221137
Date11 June 2007
CreatorsHuang, Hsi-ling
ContributorsHsien-Tang Tsai, Tsuang Kuo, Iuan-Yuan Lu
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-0611107-221137
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