The Study of the Personality Traits of the Chiefs, the Organizational Culture, and Management Styles in the Editing Departments of Press Offices in Taiwan

This study probes the personality traits of the chiefs, the organizational culture and management style in the editing departments from 20 press offices in Taiwan, moreover, the analysis and understanding on the attributes of their ownership, the property of their content, timing of their publication, their issuing location, and the history of their foundation are conducted simultaneously, which also take account of their backgrounds of population for the chiefs, the personality traits, organizational culture and management styles in the editing departments for realizing their relations.

This study is conducted by questionaire survey, which consists of two parts. One is the questionaire for the personality traits of the chiefs in the editing departments and the backgrounds of their population, which were contributed from the highest chiefs, such as editor-in-chief, associate managing editor, the head of editing department, and chief reporter in these 20 press offices to fill out the questionaire, four questionaires per press office, and totally 80 copies of the questionaires were distributed; the other is the quantitaive tables of organizational culture and management styles in the editing departments, which were dedicated from the members in the different parts in the editing departments to evalue the organizational culture and management styles of their belonging units, ten questionaires per press office, and totally 200 copies of the questionaires were distributed.