The effect of leader Personality Traits and Leadership Style on resident of community participation and well-being: A Study of Community Development Association in Taichung, Changhua and Nantou.

• Main Authors: Yen-Lun Hsieh, 謝晏倫
• Other Authors: 張淑君
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/64843381479990627592

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 生物產業管理研究所 === 104 === The past researches on personality traits mainly placed emphasis on leaders’ personality traits or leadership style in a company, however, rarely in non-profit organizations in contrast i.e. community development association. Therefore, this research explored how leaders’ personality traits effected on leadership style, community participation and well-being which residents perceived, using quantification and paired sampling for leaders and residents, associating convenience sampling for community development associations in Taichung, Changhua and Nantou with questionnaire survey. The results show that (1) Openness and agreeableness have positive effect on the transformational leadership. (2) Agreeableness has positive effect on the transactional leadership. (3) Openness, conscientiousness and agreeableness have positive effect on the community participation. (4) Both transformational and transactional leadership have positive effects on community participation. (5) Community participation has positive effects on well-being. In terms of demography, (6) married and elder have higher community participation, students have lower by comparison. (7) Female leaders lead to higher community participation. The results provide reference for community development associations in Taichung, Changhua, Nantou and others site of same properties, give suggestion to community leaders approaches to build well relations with community residents and improve the performance of community participation.