This study was intended to suggest definitional and methodological discussions and considerations about the Korean maternal leadership study and leadership model hereafter by reviewing internal tendency of the definitions and study methods for materna...
This study was intended to suggest definitional and methodological discussions and considerations about the Korean maternal leadership study and leadership model hereafter by reviewing internal tendency of the definitions and study methods for maternal leadership through collections of Korean maternal leadership studies. The searched data of the study of leadership from Academic Research information Service(RISS4U) was classified into researches about definition, domain, features, functions, and empirical researches. The typical definition of maternal or parental leadership is parental power of influence which makes members of family serve to perform the objectives voluntarily to attain the goal of the family effectively in any given situation. On this occasion, a family which consists of parents and children is a group and has systematical properties like a organization thanks to the feature of ascribed status as parents and their children. Parental leadership is also defined as the process to help their children to grow well and be independent, voluntary and motivated individuals who are able to take responsibility for their own actions properly at their developmental stages. This research shows that for the function of leadership that make parents perceived as leaders, a concept of leadership concordant with the multiple roles of parents is needed. It also suggests that parental leadership can be considered as to be exerted in the many various aspects of their own lives due to many different roles in the different positions. So the concept of leadership can be considered as to be unfolded according as the parents' own positions. This research shows that the methods of empirical study in Korea are biased to quantitative study. It offers considerations for specification of study about maternal leadership and leadership models for Korean maternal leadership models and suggests necessity of follow-up study about properties of the Korean culture.