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The assessment criteria of the "Government Service Quality Award" serve as the guiding principles for public governmental service. The recipient governmental units are considered the role model of the other government agencies. The evaluation for the award observes the requirements of the learning, assessment and planning, analyzes the impact on the organization and management, and obtains the appropriate learning object, in order to effectively inject new impetus and thinking into the organization, stimulate the performance of administative performance. Governmental agencies wish to win this award in general. The existing studies on “Government Service Quality Award” has rarely focused on the relationship between the award’s recipient and the leadership style in the recipient unit. This thesis aims to take on this task. It compares and analyzes cases across various recipients of the “Government Service Quality Award,” and distinguishs three types of leadership – “transactional leadership style,” “charismatic leadership style” and “transformative leadership style.” With in-depth interviews, the study considers that the “transactional leadership style” can be further divided into “established regulatory style” and “beyond-regulatory style”, which is an innovative contribution to the existing literature. The second contribution of this study is that the “beyond-regulatory style” relates more to the “transformative leadership style,” which is more present in those award-winning organizations. Generally speaking, most of the awarded organizations possess the “transforming leadership style” and the “beyond-regulatory” under the “transactional leadership style.” In comparison, those that lost in the award competition mostly possess the traditional “transactional leadership style”, and more often failed to convert themselves to adopt the “charismatic leadership style,” thus they do not belong to the “transforming leadership style.” The study also informs researchers of the fact that multiple factors are involoved in the evaluation process of the “Government Service Quality Award.” Successfully earning the award requires many factors such as sufficient amount of institutional resources of the candidates, attention from their respective supervising organizations, employee participation, the organizational specialties, inter alia, whereas leadership style is one of the key conditions. Nevertheless, this study is limited to the comparsion of four cases. A possible direction of future research would be to expanding the sample size in order to investigate the leadership style prevalent in the awarded organizations, to examine causal relationships, and to contribute to the literature on the subject.
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