With the recent proliferation of team-based organizations, middle management is being required to lead teams as a whole and each of their constituents with a motivational leadership that facilitates the realization of the organization's goals.
The ...
With the recent proliferation of team-based organizations, middle management is being required to lead teams as a whole and each of their constituents with a motivational leadership that facilitates the realization of the organization's goals.
The objective of this study is to identify the relationships between issue leadership of theme park management and employee empowerment and job commitment, thereby enhancing the efficiency of human resource management in the service industry.
The study's empirical analyses conclude the following: Regarding the effect of leadership type on empowerment, issue_pull was shown to have a significant effect on empowerment. Second, on the effect of leadership type on job commitment, audience_push was shown to have a significant effect on job commitment. Third, it was shown that the effect of empowerment on job commitment was statistically significant.
First, the hypothesis "issue_pull will have a significant effect on empowerment" was proven, suggesting that a leader's role in devising issues is critical regarding employee empowerment.
The effects of audience_push and system_power on empowerment were shown not to be significant, suggesting that businesses should more actively encourage employees to devise issues, while providing a system to accomodate such and encouraging managerial commitment.
Second, the hypothesis "Audience_push will have a significant effect on job commitment" was proven, suggesting that for theme park managers to propose issues and provide system-based employee support would not be enough. Rather than such a "follow me" approach, the results point toward a "let's go" approach to improving employee job commitment.
Meanwhile, the effects of issue_pull and system_power on job commitment were not shown to be significant, again suggesting that for employee job commitment, a leader's role does not stop at simply proposing issues and providing system-based support, but calls for the active participation of the leader as well.
Third, the effects of system_power on empowerment and job commitment were shown not to be significant. Such results can be interpreted to mean that a significant effect is possible only with the devising of issues and active participation on the part of theme park middle management, rather than suggest that system_power is unimportant to empowerment and job commitment.
Fourth, the hypothesis "Empowerment will have a significant effect on job commitment" was also proven, showing that empowered employees are more involved. Such results have been verified in numerous existing studies(Thomas & Velthous, 1990; Vogt & Murrell, 1990, Summer, Bae & Wtham,1996; O'Reilly & Chatman, 1986), and again confirm that empowerment is a critical antecedent factor to employee job commitment.
When interpreted according to Baek Gi-Bok(2000)'s issue leadership types, the issue leadership of theme park middle management as defined by these results corresponded from the empowerment and job commitment perspectives to Type 3 Style 1P "visionary" and Type 3 Style 1P "benevolent," respectively.
This study confirms the importance of issue_pull in employee empowerment, and reaffirms the relationship between empowerment and job commitment. A theme park management leadership improvement program based on the study's results could be expected to yield positive results in employee empowerment and job commitment.