The Effect of Employees’ Perception about Entrepreneurs’ Personalities on Employees’ Job Satisfaction - Leadership Style as a Mediator

• Main Authors: Yu-Fang Houng, 洪御芳
• Other Authors: Jihn-Chang Jehng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/26970970021741541161

碩士 === 國立中央大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 100 === Venture corporations always play a very important role in the process of economic developing. Whether the entrepreneurs can put up with the pressure and the risk of failure depends on the entrepreneurs’ personality traits. Researchers have indicated that personality factors affect the survival and success of the venture is entrepreneurs’ personalities. This study examined the entrepreneurs’ leadership style as a mediator effect the entrepreneurs’ personality traits and employees’ job satisfaction. The study collected empirical data from employees of 37 venture corporations. A total of 116 completed questionnaires were returned. Result of statistical analyses provided four important conclusions as follows: 1. Entrepreneurs’ conscientiousness personality trait has a significant positive correlation with directive path-goal clarifying leadership and participative leadership style. The entrepreneurs’ agreeableness personality trait has a significant positive correlation with supportive leadership style. 2. Entrepreneurs’ agreeableness personality trait has a significant positive correlation with employees’ job satisfaction. 3. Entrepreneurs’ agreeableness personality trait has a significant positive correlation with employees’ job satisfaction. 4. Entrepreneurs’ supportive leadership style can mediate entrepreneurs’ agreeableness personality and employees’ job satisfaction. The results of study also suggest in the same time that making the venture performance better, entrepreneurs should care about employees’ feeling and their social interactions. Entrepreneurs should try to use different leadership style to take care of employees’ physical and psychological conditions which may affect their working behaviors and job performance.