The purpose of this study is to maximize the organizational performance by presenting the essential roles of communicational mediation that lead to an efficient display of leadership for military leaders through analysis of the mediational effects in ...
The purpose of this study is to maximize the organizational performance by presenting the essential roles of communicational mediation that lead to an efficient display of leadership for military leaders through analysis of the mediational effects in the relationship between leadership and organizational performance.
To accomplish the purpose of this study, the conceptual framework for this study, as it is seen in Figure 1, has been established based on previous studies on leadership and communication pattern.
communication
official communication
unofficial communication
leadership
organization performance
transactional leadership
transformational leadership
organizational commitment
spirit, teamwork
The study model as shown in Figure 1 is classified into four stages.
The first stage is a model for anylizing the effects of leadership on communication, and the second stage is an analysis model for the effects of communication on organizational performance. The third stage analyzes the effects of leadership on organizational performance, and the fourth stage is a model that analyzes the mediating effects of communication in the relationship between leadership and organization performance.
To verify the validity of this argument, alternative hypothesis on leadership and communication patterns and organizational performance has been established.
To test this hypothesis, a survey results from 509 ROK Army personnel, excluding 73 unreliable responses, were studied with multiple regression analyses and mediated regression analysis, and succeeded in verifying the effects on organizational performance.
The summarized result of analyses is the following.
First, hypotheses 1 is of the relationship between leadership patterns and communication.
The collective analyses results demonstrate that military leaders are capable of influencing even the communication between unit members with the type of leadership they may employ to command the unit.
That is, a commander may strenghthen the unit's command chain through charisma, spark intellectualism with a contractual leadership, or influence a more fluent official communication through individual care. Also, with exceptional care or conditional incentives, the commander can encourage unofficial communication, such as grapemine, humor or private chatting.
Therefore the commander might use official and unofficial communication in harmony to improve communication between his unit's members.
Secondly, hypothesis 2 is regarding of the effects of communication patterns on organizational performance.
The collective analyses results show that active communication can positively effect an increased organizational performance of the military.
That is, more active communication through the official route, such as orders from top to bottom, relaying of official instructions, or reports from botton to top, increase organizational commitment levels of the participants, and an increase in unofficial communication can positively effect the teamwork between members. Due to the exclusiveness of the military organization, utilization of proprietary terms and the rank system can bring about communicational problems, and therefore the military leader should keep such in mind when leading his organization.
Third, hypothesis 3 analyzes the effects of types of leadership on organizational performance. A collection of verification results lead to the knowledge that leadership patterns can variously effect organizational performance.
That is, transactional leadership such as contingent incentives or management by exception have an influence on teamwork and organizational spirit, and charismatic ability presents opprtunities for intellectual stimulation, and when leading through revolutionary leadership, such as personal care, can vastly influence orginizational commitment and spirit. Therefore, great care and elasticity is required to maximize organizational performance.
Fourth, hypothesis4 is regarding of the mediative effects of leadership and organizational performance on internal communications.
The conclusive results show that the said effects are limited.
That is, communication can bring about a more effective organizational effect through conditional incentives and exceptional management.
This study is focused on empirically verifing the effects of leadership, communication and organizational performance within the military based on previous studies, instead of discovering new facts, but is not without limitations because of the survey objectives being limited to a certain rank of the ROK Army, and the overall limit in the size of the said organization despite attempts to reach far corners of the organization from the Eastern from the Western and educational institution as well.
Also, statistical analysis of internal validity shows that the measuring device is relatively weak, development of various surveys and politicization of the subject matter ought to be essential for a deeper, fruitful study.
Despite the limitations of the study due to the military system, regarding the inability to truthfully discover individual opinions and the previously mentioned limits of the surveyed objectives, the fact that it verified the current military organization based of established studies allow this study significance.
Therefore, studies based on the results of the research during this study should be continued, and I look forward to this research providing useful information for future studies regarding this particular subject matter.