The Research of the Relationship between the Directors' Leadership Style and the Organization Climate of University Libraries in Taiwan
| Autor: | Hsiu-chin Chang, 張秀琴 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 91 The purpose of this research is to explore the directors’ leadership style, organization climate, and the relationship between the two in domestic university libraries. To achieve the purpose, the researcher conducted a questionnaire survey investigating 1045 university librarians. Among them, 666 questionnaires were returned and 637 were usable ones. The usable return rate of the survey is 61%. Several statistics methods, including item analysis, factor analysis, t-test, one- way ANOVA, Pearson’s correlation and chi-square test, were used to evaluate the validity and reliability of the research tool and analyze the returned data. The conclusions of this research are： Directors tend to put more emphases on achievement of institutions’ objectives and lack consideration. “Directive behaviors of directors” and “intimate behaviors of librarians” are the most significant behaviors in organization climate of university libraries. Most Directors’ leadership styles are “high-initiating structure and high-consideration” and “low-initiating structure and low-consideration”. “high- initiating structure and low-consideration” and “low- initiating structure and high-consideration” are the minorities in rank. Organization climate of university libraries are distributed into four types equally, they are “open climate”, “closed climate”, “disengaged climate” and “engaged climate” in rank. The leadership style of “high- initiating structure and high-consideration” tends to lead to “open climate”, and the leadership style of “low-initiating structure and low-consideration” tends to lead to “closed climate”. The “consideration” behaviors of directors affected the organization climate of university libraries the most. There are significant relationship between directors’ leadership style and organization climate of university libraries. Directors’ leadership style varies with several “library”, “director” and “librarian” variables, include: collection scale of libraries, sex, diploma, professional status of library and information science, full or part time of directors, and sex, frequent contact with library readers, professional status of library and information science of librarians. Organization climate of university libraries varies with several “library”, “director” and “librarian” variables, include: status, collection scale of libraries, sex, age, diploma, working years as directors’ position, professional status of library and information science, full or part time of directors, and sex, age, working years in libraries, professional status of library and information science of librarians. According to the conclusions of the research, the researcher proposes six suggestions for university library directors as following： 1. To emphasize and improve the profession of leadership. 2. Perform “high-initiating structure and high-consideration” leadership style. 3. Develop “open climate” in the library. 4. Improve the communication with librarians and convey consideration to them. 5. Rotation rate of directors should not be too high. And try to shorten the disengaged period between librarians and new directors. 6. Pay attention to the individual differences among librarians. Besides, the researcher also gives some suggestions about research topics, methods, targets and tools for further research. |
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