Effects of Leadership and Employees'' Locus of Control on Employees'' Organizational Commitment

• Main Authors: Fan, Cheng-Rong, 范成榮
• Other Authors: Yi-Sheng Chen, Shao-Mei Chu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1997
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/06773253295538485099

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 管理科學研究所 === 85 === AbstractOrganizational commitment（O.C）represents employees'' identification and involvement to an organization. Therefore, how to raise employees'' commitment to organizations has become an important subject to all managers. Many scholars think leadership as an important factor that will affect employees'' commitment to an organization, and the purpose our research is what kinds of leadership will make employees to have higher degree of O.C.Besides, personal characteristics is also an important factor that will affect employees'' O.C. However ,former researches about personality primarily concentrate on effects of demographics on O.C. In our research, we use locus of control as personal characteristics to explore their influences on O.C.This study use convenient sample drawn form 1200 employees in Taipei city and there are 319 usable respondents. The conclusions of this study are as follows：1. The degree of employees'' O.C. differs under different types of leadership.2. The degree of employees'' O.C. differs under different types of locus of control..3. Under "selling" leadership, locus of control doesn''t have significant influences on O.C.4. Under "participating" leadership, locus of control has significant influences on O.C.5. Under "delegation" leadership, locus of control doesn''t have significant influences on O.C.6. Under telling leadership, locus of control doesn''t have significant influences on O.C.