The Study of The Influence of Leadership Traits and Situational Factors on The Leader’s Behavior– High Technology Industry as a Sample

• Main Authors: Chen-Chu Sung, 宋禎珠
• Other Authors: Yuh-Yuan Guh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/89127999000890899252

碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 94 === Leadership is always the popular topic on Organizational Behavior area. From the days before 20 century to now, the leadership theories changed from classical leadership theory includes Great Man Theory and Zeitgeist Theory and then to the modern leadership theory include Trait Theory, Behavioral Theory and Contingency Theory. Even if the modern literatures try to prove their leadership theories but most of the theories focus on the only one dimension. However, could we really find out the mystery of leadership in one dimension? This study is focusing on the relationship between the leader’s traits and situations to the leader’s behaviors. The factors could be innate and acquired. The innate factors include the leader’s physical traits and personal traits and the acquired factors include the situation of the environment. In order to combine the theories of literatures, this study refer to the Stogdill’s study of leader’s traits and find some traits of his research as the traits factors in this study, and refer to House’s situational factors of Path-goal Theory to be the situational factors in thisy study, and then refer to the leaders’s behaviors study of Ohio University as the behavior’s dimensions in this study, one is structure behavior and another is consideration behaviors in this study. The study used the questionnaires to collect data of the leaders’ traits, situation and behaviors, and ran into the operation of Artificial Neural Network, then we found the relationship between these factors. The reason why I decided to adapt the ANN as the methodology are one is innovation, and another is to take advantage of the ANN model’s strengths which differ from the statistics to validate the leader’s behavior. The result of the research shows that the situational factors is higher related to the leader’s behaviors than the factors such as leader’s physical and personal traits, and it seems express that why the development of leadership ‘s goes to contingency theory latterly. Besides, we also can find that some factors affect the leader’s behavior, but some don’t. For examples, emotion control and the harmonious group affect the leader’s behavior trend to the construction or consideration obviously, and if the leader has the confidence or if the subordinate has the external control personality has less influence on leader’s behavior.