Study on personality traits and key competence of R&D staff: An empirical analysis in Taiwan

In the environment with sharp market competition, the enterprise could achieve the absolute advantage in technology, maintain the status of its product and establish the base of sustainable existence only by the continuous research and development. This study uses the reliability, validity, descriptive statistic, T test, and ANOVA. The objective of this study includes: finding and confirming the competence that an outstanding R&D staff should be provided by the conclusion of relevant domestic and foreign literatures and the interview with the industrial supervisors, and the discovery of this study could be used by the organization as the reference and suggestion in talent selection, performance evaluation, training, development, guidance negotiation and even the individual career plan in the future.