Exploring the Fitness between Managers'' Personality in Leadership and Organization: Metaphor of Animal Ecology

• Main Authors: Hsiang-Ping Chang, 張湘萍
• Other Authors: 王居卿
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/61889983430223382589

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 企業管理學系碩士在職專班 === 96 === This study used the metaphor of animal ecology to build the conceptual models for the managers’ Personality in leadership and organization fitness. It takes organizational structure and organization culture as the ecological environment on the inside of an organization through animal ecological theory. This study tries to find the best fitness among manager’s personality traits, organization culture and organizational structure; that is to say, it discusses that the manager of each level how to survive in the ecological environment. The personality traits of manager can be grouped into several types - tiger, peacock, koalas, owl, and chameleon by the PDP (Professional Dynametric Programs). Organization culture is sorted to be three classifications - hureaucracy, innovation and support. Organizational structure is divided into several levels - top, middle, first-line level and employee. In this research, we collect extensive literature in according to the qualitative way and then exploring the fitness between managers’ personality in leadership and organization with the concept of the five elements by analogy. 1.When it talks about the managers’ Personality in leadership fitness from each level in an organization, the relationship between leader ad employees should find each other’s complementarity, but not the same personality. 2.The strength of manager’s personality will have influence on the fitness between manager and organization. 3.The portfolio of the best fitness between organization culture and managers’ personality in leadership is as following: (1)Innovative culture -tiger and chameleon. (2)Supportive culture - peacock. (3)Bureaucratic culture - koalas and owl. 4.The portfolio of the worst fitness between organization culture and managers’ personality in leadership is as following: (1)Bureaucratic culture - top and middle management who belong to tiger style. (2)Bureaucratic culture - top and middle management who belong to peacock style. (3)Innovative and supportive culture - top management who belong to owl style. (4)Innovative and supportive culture – top management who belong to koalas style. 5.When management try to survive in organization, the way to lead employees will make a big difference by individual character. (1)Management who is tiger style will take beneficial way to themselves. (2)Management who is peacock style will take good relationship as first choice. (3)Management who is koalas style will lead employees by their authority power. (4)Management who is owl style will use precise analysis to lead people as their leadership style. (5)Management who is chameleon style will lead followers through the adapter of organization culture.