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The Relationship Of Technology Managers’ Competency And The Mediation Effect Of Leader-Member Exchange

Posted on:2011-01-11Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:J YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1229330395462095Subject:Business management
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Now the world economy has entered the stage of innovation globalization after experiencing the trade globalization and production globalization. The innovation globalization brings enterprises unprecedented opportunity and at the same time great challenges. During the innovation globalization, the survival of the enterprises and personal growth will depend on the knowledge and information technology as well as the exploration nd application of these tools. The technical people under the technology mangers are key to the enterprise innovation. This study is focused on the competency model of the mangers, while no competency model was built for this specific group of technology mangers, neither the impact of competency on the work performance is evaluated in previous studies.This research studies the competency of professional technology mangers using the competition value competency model. Through Behavioral Event Interview, Content analysis and table analysis, the competency model of the professional technology mangers is obtained after analysis of the information from15technology mangers. It is shown that the competency model includes7competencies of working efficiently, creating good atmosphere, direction controlling, project administration, effective communication, training other people, and creative thinking.After proposing the competency model of technology mangers, this study reviews the domestic and foreign theories in the fields of competency, Leader-member exchange(LMX) theory, a relationship model of competency, leader-member exchange and performance is established and7hypothesis are proposed. Then, it operationally defines all the concepts or variants, design measurement instrument for each variant and revise the instruments according to the results of test; questionnaires are obtained in the cities of Nanjing, Suzhou, and Shanghai, analyzes all these data by using SPSS15.0and LISREL8.70, and argues whether those hypothesis can be supported according to the information supplied in the samples. Finally, it explains and analyzes all the conclusions after data analysis, and discusses the directive significance in management practice of these conclusions.As the branch of leadership effectiveness theory, leader-member exchange theory believes that the leader will have different exchange relationships with different subordinates for the limit time and energy of the leader. Specially in the context of China, as the supplier of resource, information and affect, the relationship with subordinates is very important for the performance appraisal. Therefore, based on the social exchange theory, this study discusses the mediating effect of LMX between the competency and performance. The results show that there is a partial mediation of LMX with the sample of316questionnaires of technologyl managers.The study discusses the mediating effect at the leader-member exchange construct level as well as the four dimensions level. The results show that the construct of leader-member exchange partially mediating the relationship of competency and job performance. It also discusses the differentiation of four dimensions. The dimensions of loyalty and contribution has a partially mediation effect between the competency and task performance, the dimensions of affect and professional respect has no effect. There is a similar result between the competency and interpersonal facilitation. The dimension of affect, loyalty and contribution has partially mediation beween the competency and job dedication, but the proposal about mediation of professional respect between them is refused.
Keywords/Search Tags:Competency, Leader-Member Exchange, Task Performance, Interpersonal Facilitation, Job Dedication
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