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the aim of this study is to identify combinationsof different personality traits among teaching faculty andexplore for which combinations college managers shoulduse change leadership to mediate their cognition in amotivation mechanism and for which combinations doingso is not necessary. In this study, two-stage cluster analysisand partial least squares are the methods for identifyingdifferent combinations of personality traits and test medi-ation. This study uses 350 samples for analysis. From thetest results, this study first identifies three combinations ofpersonality traits, including ‘‘high central force but out-going’’, ‘‘middle–high central force but outgoing and alittle nervousness’’, and ‘‘synthesizing type’’. The ‘‘highlycentral force but outgoing’’ and ‘‘middle–high central forcebut outgoing and a little nervousness’’ do not need to bemediated by change leadership, and teaching faculty whohave these two combinations of personality traits will havepositive attitudes or thoughts towards the motivationmechanism. Regarding the ‘‘synthesizing type’’, those withthis combination of personality traits will demonstratecomplex attitudes, reactions, or thinking, and therefore,college managers should think about how to change theirattitudes or behaviour through change leadership to com-municate and guide them to accept the motivationmechanism