| dc.description.abstract | Music is omnipresent in ours life, we can’t imagine the life without it. Some people like the specific music due to it can agree with their mind at that moment, or it can adjust their mood, and the other people like to create the romantic life style via music, or through the heave tempo to release their pressure. Whatever we want to find the consolation or inspiration in music, the music is properly reflected our individual personality, mind, and taste.
The behavior model is very different in our personality traits, and the music preference also responses our individual personality. When a group wants to achieve the same target, the leadership will be occurred naturally. McGregor(1960) thinks the most important factor in organization is people, and business should put their attention in human resources. There are many factors to effect staff’s performance. Many researches point out manager’s leadership style will influence staff’s performance, but in order to inspire staff to reach business goal, we need to use different leadership style for each individual personality traits.
This research is based on banking business to find the relationship among music preference, leadership style sense, personality traits, population statistics, and performance.
The results are as follows:
1. When staffs feel laissez-faire leadership, their performance will be better than the others.
2. In five-factor model of the NEO personality inventory, the conscientiousness and performance reveal positive correlation.
3. If staffs like religious music, their performance is better than the others.
4. The variances of population statistics, such as sex, marriage, age and working years all have positive effects on performance.
5. Laissez-faire leadership will have negative effect in performance when staff’s personality is openness.
6. Inspiration motivation leadership will have positive effect in performance when staff’s personality is conscientiousness.
7. Laissez-faire leadership will have positive effect in performance when staffs like to listen to religious music.
According to above conclusions, there are some suggestions for management: we should apply different leadership style based on different personality traits. As money is very sensitive asset, people always handle it very carefully; therefore they will ask for conscientious and professional service in banking industry. In such competitive environment, sales people bear more pressure than others since they need to achieve their monthly goal even thought they are rejected by the customers. In such circumstances, if they can listen to music to release the pressure, and face the next customer with ease, the possibility of being success is higher and their performance will be getting better. | en_US |