| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東科技大學 === 熱帶農業暨國際合作系所 === 96 === The role of a leader in organizational behavior is extremely important in providing directions for achieving organizational goals as well as integrating organizational human resources. The personality traits and the leadership competency of a leader are, therefore, critical to the effectiveness of an organization. In the organizational structure of a farmers’ association, general manager is responsible for leading its employees to succeed in facing with revolutionary economic changes and highly competitive business markets. Thus, the role played by a general manager and his or her leadership competency are the determinant factors for the success or failure in managing a farmers’ association.
This study was to survey general managers of farmers’ associations listed in 2005 to have credit departments established in organizational structures. A total of 260 copies of the questionnaires were distributed and 125 copies were returned. The data were subjected to the DEA analysis and then further analyzed by using the LISREL statistical software to verify the adequacy of the composition model for determining the effects of personality traits and leadership competency on the effectiveness of management of a credit department. Results of the study showed that the composition model is an acceptable degree of adaptation. The result of the verification of the composition model adequacy revealed that the composition elements had a significant effect on their related personality traits (p<0.01) and the effects, in descending order, were agreeableness personality (1.38), followed by extraversion personality (1.08), conscientiousness personality (0.90), emotional stable personality (0.72) and then openness to experience personality (0.65). Similarly, significant effects were found on the leadership competency (p<0.01) and the effects, in descending order, were strategic thinking ability (2.92), followed by professional knowledge applicability (2.80), competitor cognition ability (2.72), assignment management ability (2.02), and interpersonal relation management ability (1.85). However, CCR (0.10) was the only element found to have significant effect on the effectiveness of management (p<0.01). The personality traits of a general manager were also found to have significant direct effects on the effectiveness of management (p<0.05). The personality traits of a general manager expressed through leadership competency had an indirect effect (0.29) on the effectiveness of management of a credit department. In addition, the personality traits of a general manager also had a total effect of 0.32 on the effectiveness of management of a credit department. This showed that the personality traits of a general manager had a positive effect on his or her effectiveness in managing a credit department. Similarly, the leadership competency of a general manager had an effect (0.55) on the effectiveness of management of a credit department (p<0.05), indicating that the leadership competency of a general manager had a direct effect on the effectiveness of management of credit department. The effects of the personality traits of a general manager on his or her leadership competency was at 0.52 (p<0.05), indicating that a general manager possessing better personality traits had better leadership competency as well as greater effectiveness in managing a credit department.
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