A Study on the Relationship Between Transformational Leadership Style of General Managers and Effectiveness of the Farmers’ Associations- An Example of Keelung City Farmers’ Association
Date Issued
2015
Date
2015
Author(s)
Hsiao, Ming-Young
Abstract
As the globally agricultural environment has been changing continuously, the farmers’ association accounting for developing rural economy, and improving farmers’ living standards, has to deliberate about the problems, such as how to change its traditional perspectives, how to advance its operation model, and where to position itself on the markets. Being a CEO of the farmers’ association, the general manager should consider some issues: how to adapt effective leadership behaviors to boost the performance of his or her organization and how to ensure the farmers’ association to keep its advantages and sustainable operation in this competitive world. Firstly, this study explores the relationships between the general manager’s transformational leadership and the performance of farmers’ association. Secondly, based on all sorts of demographic variables, it also aims to learn the relationships between the transformational leadership behaviors and the organizational effectiveness. This study employed a survey to gain an understanding of the perceptions of the transformational leadership style and the organizational performance from Keelung City Farmers’ Association’s staff. IBM SPSS Statistics version 20 software was adopted to analyze the empirical data. The variables were the participants'' sex, marital status, working department, year of service, and educational background. Some statistical analysis was conducted to find out the perceptional differences between the transformational leadership behaviors and the organizational performance. Product-moment correlation and multiple regressions were also applied to analyze the relationships between the general leadership behaviors and the farmers’ association’s performance in every perspective. The results of this study are expressed as follows: 1. The male staff members had higher scores than female staff members did in the perception of intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration; while the female staff members had higher scores than male staff members did in the perception of idealized influence. 2. Unmarried staff had higher scores than married staff did in the perception of all four perspectives of transformational leadership. 3. Extension Department staff had the highest scores on the perception of all four perspectives of transformational leadership. Staff in Account Department, Credit Department and General Affairs Department had the lowest scores on the perception of idealized influence, intellectual stimulation and inspirational motivation respectively. 4. The staff members with less than 5-year service experience had higher scores on the perception of all four perspectives of transformational leadership than those with over 15-year service experience did. 5. The female staff members had higher scores than male staff members did in the perception of financial perspective; while the male staff members had higher scores than female staff members did in the perception of internal business process and learning and growth. 6. Unmarried staff had higher scores than married staff did on the perception of all four perspectives of organizational performance. 7. Extension Department staff had the highest scores on the perception of all four perspectives. Credit Department staff had the lowest scores on the perception of financial perspective and customer perspective. General Affairs Department staff had the lowest scores on the perception of internal business process and learning and growth. 8. The staff with less than 5-year service experience had higher scores than those with over 15-year service experience did on the perception of all four perspectives of organizational performance. 9. There were significantly positive correlations among the four perspectives of farmer’s association’s performance and the four perspectives of transformational leadership. 10. In regression model, we could find that the leader’s behaviors in intellectual stimulation and individualized consideration have the most crucial and positive influences on all levels of performance in Farmers’ Association. The main purpose of this study in farmer’s association’s organization management is that the closer the general manager’s leadership style belongs to transformational style, the easier the farmer’s association can boost its financial performance, increase customer’s satisfaction in its service, enhance fluency of internal process, and also increase employee’s job satisfaction.
Subjects
general manager
leadership style
organizational performance
transformational leadership
Balanced Scorecard
SDGs
Type
thesis
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