As one of methods for the freedom and creation of member in the organization, empowerment is recently emphasized. Although many people show interest in the study of leadership, the actual proof of study is still insufficient.
Therefore, this study ...
As one of methods for the freedom and creation of member in the organization, empowerment is recently emphasized. Although many people show interest in the study of leadership, the actual proof of study is still insufficient.
Therefore, this study tried to find out how different types of leadership of top management in the social welfare facility influences on the empowerment and satisfaction of social worker toward their given job considering the general social workers working in the social welfare facility in Gyeongbuk province.
The types of leadership in top management approached with the innovative and transactional leadership based on the discussion of Bass and empowerment was defined as the recognition, continuous and dynamic process as the concept of Velthouse. By understanding the influence on the perlocutionary function and job satisfaction between types of leadership and job satisfaction, this study tried to verify the logical causal relationship between variables.
For making an approach, this paper studies not only the casual relationship between variables but also multifaceted analysis classifying the constituent factor of empowerment variable, thus, it makes a concrete analysis rather than a simple concept.
For the method of study, the survey was performed with the general social workers employed in the social welfare facility in Gyeongbuk province, and path analysis and 3 phased regression analysis were executed as validity, reliability analysis, correlation analysis, SPSS and AMOS after making an exception of some part among the collected the questionnaire.
The result of such an actual study is summarized as follows.
First, the result shows that innovative leadership gives a positive effect on the empowerment. As a result, leader of the organization should give an innovative leadership raising the achievement of goal and the ability of delivering vision in the organization and unsparingly should give an effort to induce the knowledge developing the ability of subordinate and professional sense. Furthermore, innovative leadership type can be significant but transactional leadership is also positive to the personal empowerment in the simple linear relationship and negative to the some factors and job satisfaction for the empowerment in the path analysis so that top management should give an effective and complex leadership by considering this fact.
Second, the result shows that empowerment gives a positive influence on the job satisfaction and plays an important mediate role in the influence of leadership. This infers that personal empowerment is required in the improvement of attitude toward the job such as the improvement of job satisfaction so that leader and individuals of the organization should try to make the condition of improving the empowerment.
Third, the variable of personal empowerment was verified with the 3 phased parameterized regression analysis suggested by Baron & Kenny(1986) and additional statistical verification for the difference of standardized regression coefficients in each phase rather than a simple indirect effect or explanation. Hence, it confirmed that this method could suggest the settlement of empowerment variable as a parameterized variable and its importance.
With the analysis, empowerment was confidently suggested as an important variable to improve the job satisfaction for each employee, and also it confirmed that innovative leadership could enhance the personal job satisfaction with the engagement of empowerment as a parameter.
However, the result of this study cannot explain all about the relationship between leadership and empowerment. Therefore, the study on the leadership and empowerment should be established by massive approach rather than the personal level approach and should be accomplished by carrying out the practical pragmatic research and the theoretical discussion side by side as well as the longitudinal research for more clear deduction about the process of cause and effect with the approach of multifaceted study in order to generalizing the study. With the realization of this study, such results in the study will be applied to the real work site and directly developed in the organization.