A Study of the Transformational Leadership on Leadership Effectiveness of Female Leaders in the Farmers’ Associations: Taking Employee Personality Characteristics as Moderating Variables

• Main Authors: WEI LING LUNG, 魏伶倫
• Other Authors: Ya-Jung Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/bq4478

碩士 === 高苑科技大學 === 經營管理研究所 === 104 === This study aims at exploring the relationship between transformational leadership and leadership effectiveness of female leaders in the farmers’ associations, taking employee personality characteristics as moderating variable to figure out the influence of transformational leadership on leadership effectiveness. This study adopts documentary analysis and questionnaire survey as research methods and takes employees of farmers’ associations as objectives. It utilizes convenience sampling, issuing 400 questionnaires. After filtering and deleting invalid ones, there are 370 valid questionnaires. The effective questionnaire return rate is 92.5%. The research tool is self-made which includes: “transformational leadership measuring scale”, “leadership effectiveness measuring scale” and “employee personality characteristics measuring scale” which has fine reliability and validity. The statistical methods include frequency distribution and percentage, mean and standard deviation, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, hierarchical regression analysis, etc. Research results are concluded as follows: 1.Transformational leadership has prediction effect for leadership effectiveness of female leaders in the farmers’ associations. The most effective predictor is “intellectual stimulation”, “individualized consideration”, “idealized attributes” and “inspirational motivation”. 2.For the mediating effect of employee personality characteristics, employee personality characteristics has partial significant positive mediating effect on transformational leadership and leadership effectiveness of female leaders in the farmers’ associations. Finally, according to the research results, this study proposes some concrete suggestions for the reference of the farmers’ associations.