The rapid modernization of society resulted in changes in lifestyles and affluence in economy. However, it also caused mammonism which refers to devotion to the pursuit of wealth and deterioration of human value. In case of companies, this phenomenon ...
The rapid modernization of society resulted in changes in lifestyles and affluence in economy. However, it also caused mammonism which refers to devotion to the pursuit of wealth and deterioration of human value. In case of companies, this phenomenon brought about organizational crisis on account of the unethical behaviors of top management. In order to fundamentally resolve these societal problems, ethical and moral approach has been highly valued. As a result, companies pay attention to the authentic leadership based on the righteousness and truthfulness.
Because authentic leadership can influence on the members' extrinsic behavior and the conception of the intrinsic ego, it is important to consider about self-conception or self-efficacy. According to the previous studies, members who have higher level of self-efficacy made more efforts to complete their task. Moreover, high level of self-efficacy enhanced not only individual performance but also organizational achievement.
For objective measurement of individual performance, subjectivity which addresses the psychological aspects should be taken into account, regarding which, job satisfaction, organizational citizenship behavior and organizational commitment as a variable. This research is intended to fathom out the impacts on structural relationship between authentic leadership, self-efficacy, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior of members with direct and indirect empirical study to extend the research of authentic leadership.
As business ethics become more important, authentic leadership is highlighted both domestically and internationally. In contrast, since the notion of the authentic leadership is introduced recently to the domestic, the theoretical or empirical researches are lacking. Reflecting the above situation, the present research is proposed to extend the leadership-related studies through this point: the relationship between authentic leadership, self-conception (self-efficacy), job satisfaction and the organizational citizenship behavior with concrete investigations for the direct and indirect effects among these factors. This research is expected to provide implications with relation to development and training for leadership, proving the effectualness of the authentic leadership in domestic business environment.
The investigative items of this research are as follows:
Research problems 1: Does the structural relationship exist between managers’ authentic leadership, members' self-efficacy, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior?
Research problems 2: Is there direct/indirect impact of members' perceived authentic leadership on the members' self-efficacy, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior?
In order to achieve the goal of this research, 343 people who work for major company A were chosen as subjects. Regarding the way of the analysis for the investigation, structural equation model was used with descriptive statistic analysis, the correlation analysis, the examination of validity and reliability through SPSS. Also, the relations of variables were confirmed through verification of the assessment model and structural model by dint of AMOS.
The corollaries and the arguments according to the investigative items read below:
First, the authentic leadership devised in this research, the self-efficacy of members, the job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior have turned out to show the high level of suitability and to formulate the structural relations.
Second, the direct effects among the variables are: the authentic leadership directly affects the self-efficacy of members and the job satisfaction, but the organizational citizenship behavior doesn't directly. Moreover, the authentic leadership is fathomed out to have a significant and indirect effect on the organizational citizenship behavior by mediation of the self-efficacy and the job satisfaction of members. Therefore, companies need to foster an organizational culture for mangers to develop authentic leadership, care about self-efficacy, job satisfaction and organizational citizenship behavior to improve them in aspects of individual and organization.
On the foundation of this research, suggestions for the follow-up studies are as below:
First, since only 343 subjects were chosen from one company alone, the result has a limitation in representing all domestic situations. Therefore, more diverse subjects are needed to investigate for the empirical research to increase the generality.
Second, because the research focuses on quantitative analysis, there can be gaps between the reality and the individual response. Considering this fact, measuring the variables in more qualitative manners is required for following studies.
Third, self-efficacy, sense of job satisfaction, and organizational citizenship behavior can be influenced by not only the authentic leadership but also the other factors. Thus, the theoretical model for leadership should be extended, taking the diverse variables into accounts in the posterior studies.