Matter in the wrong place is dirt !? Effectiveness comparison of Authentic, Benevolent- Moral, and Charismatic Leadership to loyalty and trust

• Main Authors: Yue-Ying Wang, 王悅縈
• Other Authors: Chia-wu Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/52900238362499793238

碩士 === 國立東華大學 === 企業管理學系 === 97 === In the business environment of complexity, an upswing in highly publicized corporate scandals and management malfeasance, especially including Eron, Tyco and WorldCom. It lead to this situation that people do not trust to supervisor, then it made people to focus on moral and ethic in leaders and rethought the importance of authentic leadership. The new construct of western leadership was called authentic leadership recently. Why did it generate even though it had been existed the conception of moral leadership in the east? Did it have better integrated conception or prediction power? However, the popular leadership theory in the east was paternalistic leadership. Does authentic leadership of western conception or benevolent-moral leadership of eastern conception have better prediction power in the eastern context? Hence, this research adds discussion of charismatic leadership, and discovers the differences and additional value of past leadership theory. Besides, it compares the effectiveness of authentic, charismatic and benevolent-moral leadership to loyalty to supervisor, trust in organization and trust to supervisor. This research bases on full-time employees in the public and private organizations. The total usable questionnaires are 429. I collected data from two times, respondents were asked to focus on leaderships of their supervisors in the first time. Then in the second time, they completed measures of loyalty to supervisor, trust in organization and trust to supervisor. After statistic analyses, the major findings of this study are summarized as follows: first, after controlling for authentic leadership and charismatic leadership respectively, benevolent-moral leadership had better effectiveness to predict loyalty to supervisor. Second, after controlling for authentic leadership and charismatic leadership respectively, benevolent-moral leadership had better effectiveness to predict trust in organization. Third, after controlling for charismatic leadership, authentic and benevolent-moral leadership both had excellent effectiveness to predict trust to supervisor. Finally, I discuss implications, limitations and research directions for future research.