消防機關領導風格對組織承諾影響之研究─以領導成員交換關係（LMX）為中介變項

Abstract

This study aims at exploring the correlation between leadership styles of firefighting organization, LMX (Leader-Member Exchange) and organizational commitment, examining the mediating effect of LMX. This study adopts documentary analysis and questionnaire survey as research methods and takes firefighters in firefighting organization in Tainan City as objectives. It utilizes convenience sampling, issuing 250 questionnaires. After filtering and deleting invalid ones, there are 218 valid questionnaires. The effective questionnaire return rate is 87.2 %. The research tool is self-made “the influence of leadership styles of firefighting organization on organizational commitment Questionnaire” which includes four measuring scales: “transforming leadership measuring scale”, “transactional leadership measuring scale”, “LMX measuring scale” and “organizational commitment measuring scale” which has fine reliability and validity. The statistical methods include frequency distribution and percentage, mean and standard deviation, Pearson’s product-moment correlation, hierarchical regression analysis, etc. Research results are concluded as follows: 1. Both transforming leadership and transactional leadership have significant positive influence on organizational commitment. 2. Transforming leadership and transactional leadership have significant positive influence on LMX. 3. LMX has significant positive influence on organizational commitment. 4. LMX has mediating effect on leadership styles and organizational commitment. In between, LMX has partial mediating effect on transforming leadership and organizational commitment and complete mediating effect on transactional leadership and organizational commitment. Finally, according to the research results, this study proposes some concrete suggestions for the reference of firefighting organization. Keywords: LMX, Transactional Leadership, Firefighting Organizations, Organizational Commitment, Transforming Leadership