The effect of the Organizational Structure on Employee''s Innovative Behavior and Leader-member Exchange Relationship-Using Humor Leadership as A Mediating Variable

• Main Authors: Yao-Kuan Hsiao, 蕭瑤冠
• Other Authors: 洪英正
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2009
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86166092263091289480

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 企業管理學系碩士在職專班 === 97 === Humor is an important character for leaders, and it also helps people to reduce the pressure. But very few researches on using humor leadership to study the application of management practices. However if the firm can stand stably, the key point is the employee''s innovative behaviors. Every organization has different structure which has different influence on employee''s innovative behaviors as well. This study using humor leadership as a mediating variable to research that humor leadership would be brought by which organization structure and how is the effect of humor leadership on employee''s innovative behaviors and leader-member exchange relationship. Firstly, studying the relevant literature, and we have established the research framework and assumptions in accordance with theoretical basis. Then we selected the appropriate scale as research tools and applied the questionnaire survey for employees in Taiwan. The study was done after completing the reliability analysis, descriptive statistics, factor analysis, T test, ANOVA and regression analysis from 318 valid subjects. The main results are: 1.Organizational centralization has a significant negative influence on humor leadership 2.Humor leadership has a significant positive influence on employee''s innovative behaviors. 3.Humor leadership has a significant positive influence on leader-member exchange relationship. 4.The relationship between organizational structure and both employee''s innovative behaviors and leader-member exchange relationship is partially influenced (mediating effect) by humor leadership.