A Study on Key Factors’ Weight Evaluation in a Manager’s Leadership Skill That Affects Job Performance in the Listed IC Design Houses in Taiwan

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the weight values of key factors in a manager’s leadership skills that affect job performance in the listed IC Design Houses in Taiwan. The research subjects are three of the typically listed IC design houses in Taiwan. This paper adopts Analytic Network Process (ANP) to analyze the relevance of each criterion, and to identify the important factors of each criterion and the priority ranking of their weights. Research findings show that, in the “leadership ability” sub-dimension that affects the managerial job performance in the listed IC design houses in Taiwan, both the weights from academic scholars’ perspective and industry operators’ perspective are over 0.1. This shows that both scholars and operators believe that innovative creativity, leadership appeal, and the ability to manage time are three of the most important indicators affecting leadership ability. Although operators’ perspectives on the weights of the above mentioned three indicators are different from the scholars’, the difference arises because scholars take on a theoretical viewpoint, believing that innovative creativity impacts leadership ability the most, while operators take on a more practical view, believing that leadership appeal impacts leadership ability the most, then in turn, affects job performance. The analytical findings of this stage can serve as a reference for decision-makers of the listed IC design houses in Taiwan to use in talent selection.