The purpose of this study is to verify whether psychological safety has a mediating effect in the relationship between emotional leadership and innovative work behaviors of domestic private and public enterprise workers. For this purpose, the followin...
The purpose of this study is to verify whether psychological safety has a mediating effect in the relationship between emotional leadership and innovative work behaviors of domestic private and public enterprise workers. For this purpose, the following two research questions were established. First, does emotional leadership affect psychological safety? Second, does psychological safety mediate in the relationship between emotional leadership and innovative work behavior?
The survey in this study was conducted using a non-probability sampling method for the population, from August 23, 2021 to September 3, 2021, targeting workers in various types of organizations located in Korea. A total of 275 questionnaires were collected. The final 252 copies were analyzed, excluding 23 questionnaires with insincere or missing responses among the response sheets.
Individual competency and social competency variables were used for emotional leadership as an independent variable, and single factor variables were used for psychological safety as a parameter and innovative work behavior as a dependent variable. The control variables were gender, education, total work experience, job, Industry, organization size, and team size were included.
For the analysis methods of this study, descriptive statistical analysis, correlation analysis, and multiple regression analysis were performed. For mediating effect analysis, the 3-step regression analysis of Baron & Kenny (1986) and the significance test were performed through the Sobel Test. For data analysis in this study, SPSS 26.0 was used, and the statistical significance level was set to 0.05.
The results of this study are as follows. First, it was confirmed that emotional leadership had a positive effect on psychological safety. Second, it was confirmed that emotional leadership had a positive (+) effect on the relationship with innovative work behavior. Third, psychological safety was confirmed as a partial mediating effect between emotional leadership and innovative work behavior.
Unlike previous studies related to emotional leadership, which have mainly investigated the influence relationship between the most common variables of organizational effectiveness, such as organizational or team effectiveness, job and organizational commitment, and organizational performance, this study It is meaningful
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Based on the above research results, conclusions and implications for the research problem and suggestions for follow-up studies were made.