Research of Female Supervisors? Personality Traits on the Leadership Styles and Organizational Commitment: The Impact of Relatedness

Résumé

The change in social population structure and the annual increase of higheducation female population largely enhance the employment willingness and capability and constantly increase female workers. Except for slightly worse physical fitness than males, females present outstanding abilities of analysis, conflict dissolution, and interpersonal relationship that female supervisors are increasing. Domestic female employment market show significant growth on the quality. In face of above opportunities and restrictions, an enterprise should consider how to solve females? problems in order to fully apply female human resources. Taking female supervisors in high-tech industry in Hsinchu Science Park as the research objects, total 247 valid copies of questionnaire are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 82%; each retrieved copy is regarded as a valid sample. The research results conclude that: (1) personality traits would affect leadership styles, (2) personality traits would influence organizational commitment, (3) leadership styles present significantly positive effects on affective commitment in organizational commitment, (4) leadership styles show remarkably positive effects on continuous commitment in organizational commitment, and (5) leadership styles reveal notably positive effects on normative commitment in organizational commitment. According to the results, suggestions are proposed, expecting to assist female supervisors in facing such the rapid and innovative environment, constantly applying personal traits, developing self-capability, and breaking through various restrictions to enhance the employment width and level as well as create benefits for ego and enterprise survival.