Any organization has a its own goal and vision. In other words, there is no organization which does not have goals. But, it is a matter that change is more seriously and situation of organization is faced gets more complicated and difficult, and Infor...
Any organization has a its own goal and vision. In other words, there is no organization which does not have goals. But, it is a matter that change is more seriously and situation of organization is faced gets more complicated and difficult, and Information technology makes it more decentralized and independently for 21th Century’s organization. In addition, organizational environment gets more competitively, role of leader gets enlarger and importance of ability of leader more grows up.
Thus, it is required for new leadership which resulted from changing of organizational environment and growing up importance of leader's ability.
Thesedays the super-leadership is a rising issue meaning the new leadership makes subordinates into self-leaders by giving more autonomy to subordinates and rising their potential up.
So, this study aims to consider intrinsic nature of super-leadership’s new type, to examine how super-leadership produces an effect on job satisfaction and organization commitment of subordinates.
Truely, classical theory of leadership is still valid, but that is what it is expected to help leaders who have a responsibility of fulfilling goals of organization, through consideration about the essence of this new type of leadership and research in how super-leadership produces an effect on self-leadership, job satisfaction and organization commitment of subordinates.
Because there are already many prior researches about that the super- leadership has a positive effect on the attitude of subordinates, this research investigated how super-leadership produces a significant effect on self-leadership, job satisfaction and organization commitment of subordinates only who is working in petrochemical industry.
Results of the study are as follows:
First, about the relation of super-leadership and attitude, the hypothesis is that the super-leadership of the superior will affect meaningfully an attitude of subordinates. It is demonstrated that the super-leadership of the superior has positive effects on the job satisfaction and organization commitment of subordinates.
Second, about the relation of self-leadership and attitude, The hypothesis is that the self-leadership of the subordinate will affect meaningfully an attitude. It is demonstrated that the three sub-concepts of self-leadership, that is, behavior-oriented, natural-reward and constructive-thought pattern have positive effects on the job satisfaction and organization commitment.
Third, about the relation of super-leadership and self-leadership, The hypothesis is that the super-leadership of the superior will affect significantly the three sub-concepts of self-leadership, those are, behavior-oriented, natural-reward and constructive-thought pattern. It is demonstrated that super-leadership has positive effects on the three sub-concepts of self-leadership.
Fourth, about the relation of super-leadership and attitude, The hypothesis is that the self-leadership of the subordinate will mediate between super-leadership of the superior and attitude of subordinates. It is demonstrated that the three sub-concepts of self-leadership, those are, behavior-oriented, natural-reward and constructive-thought pattern function as partial mediator between super-leadership and attitude.
Considering the above research findings, it can be assured that the super-leadership has a positive effect on the attitude of subordinates.
It is conjectured that the leader can enhance the attitude of subordinates and with the result that they can accomplish the proper goal of their group by super-leadership, what makes subordinates into self-leaders by securing the autonomy to subordinates and enhancing their potential.
Truly, the result of this study is accomplished only in limited local and industry, but the future task is to study great leadership which can lead organization in 21th Century through more sophisticated future researches.