| dc.description.abstract | Thesis: Transformational Leadership and Innovation: A Case Study of T Company University: National Central University, Institute of Human Resource Management
Degree: Master in Business Administration
Name: Chang, Mei-Yu
Advisor: Dr. Joseph S. Lee
Graduated Year: Second semester of 2007
Abstract
With globalization, innovation is regarded as a vital important factor for the success of a business. Many studies have shown that leadership, especially transformational leadership, is one of the most influential factors to innovation. T Company, the pioneer of IC manufacturing industry, takes innovation as one of its four enterprise core values and achieves remarkable success in the innovation domain. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to discover the correlation between transformational leadership and innovation in T Company.
After analyzing 204 questionnaires filled out by managers of T Company, the findings of this study are as follows:
1.Transformational leadership is positively related to innovation climate and innovation maturity. In other words, managers characterized by charisma, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individual consideration are contributive to create an innovative environment and foster innovative talents.
2.In general, respondents think the management team of T Company has four characters of transformational leadership, which means managers can be respected and trusted by their subordinates, can lead them towards a common objective, can give them opportunities to learn and to grow, and can strengthen their logic and analytical skills.
3.“Practices different from the corporate norm are encouraged”, “Management is tolerant of failure in pursuit of valuable innovation”, “Good ideas for innovation projects often come from outside of the company” are the three lowest-scored items of the innovation aspect. It implies that innovation in T Company is restricted to conservative regulations and T Company focuses more on internal innovation than external innovation. | en_US |