The Comparison Among Transformational, Paternalistic Leadership Styles, and
Effectiveness-Veterans Affairs Cmmission as examples
Student¡GSheng-Lin Chiou Advisor¡GDr. C-K Jen
Institute of Human Resource Management, Sun Yat-Sen University
ABSTRACT
Currently studies on the topic of ¡§public leaderships¡¨ in Taiwan are mainly to verify theories developed by western countries without taking into account potential inadequacies of the theories due to cultural differences. It is necessary to identify the trend of Chinese organization from the cultural point of view. This research attempts to find out which is suitable for public organization in Taiwan by comparing eastern leadership attributes with western theories.
This study was designed to explore the relationship among transformational leadership, paternalistic leadership , and leadership effectiveness of the principals in Veterans Affairs Commission , and tried to achieve the following purposes.
1. Understanding the leadership behaviors and leadership effectiveness of the paternalistic in Veterans Affairs Commission at present.
2. Examining the relationships among background variables, leadership behaviors, and leadership effectiveness.
3. Exploring the predictions of leadership effectiveness by leadership behaviors.
¡@A total of 403 questionnaire samples were collected from thirty-four public units such as hospital, factory, construction, farm, and forestry units. The analysis consists of totally four sub-categories - ¡§ Transformational Leadership Scale¡¨, ¡§Paternalistic Leadership Scale¡¨, ¡§Leadership Effectiveness Scale.¡¨ With statistical methods as Pearson Correlation, Two-related Samples Test, Block Regression, the results show that¡G
1.Supervisors adopting paternalistic leadership get better leadership effectiveness .
2.Executive administrators adopting transformational leadership get better leadership effectiveness.
3.Authoritarianism leadership has positive relation with moral leadership.
4.Benevolence leadership has positive relation with moral leadership.
5.Authoritarianism leadership has positive relation with leadership effectiveness.
6.Benevolence leadership and moral leadership has positive relation with leadership effectiveness.
7.Transformational leadership has positive relation with leadership effectiveness
Finally, according to the result of this research, some suggestions will be made to effectively enhance leadership effectivemess in Veterans Affairs Commission and to the futural researchers.
Keywords: Transformational Leadership , Paternalistic Leadership , Leadership effectiveness
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0730101-200151 |
| Date | 30 July 2001 |
| Creators | Chiou, Sheng-Lin |
| Contributors | C-K Jen, Shyh-Jer Chen, Cheng-Chen Lin |
| 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-0730101-200151 |
| Rights | off_campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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