자기희생적 리더십이 부하의 자기희생의무감 지각과 조직몰입에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구 - 개인(리더)동일시 매개기능을 중심으로 -

Previous literature on self-sacrificial leadership has been identified that self-sacrificial behavior of leader affects on subordinates in various aspects. That is, self-sacrificial leadership affects on subordinate's trustful perception to leader, and has influence upon their organizational attitude and behavior in organizational settings. In that sense, so far self-sacrificial behavior of leader argued as important charismatic elements in leadership theories. The purpose of this research aimed to investigate whether self-sacrificial leadership behavior of leader influences to follower's personal identification in leader. Because it has been known that followers perceive strong charisma and leadership justice from self-sacrificial behavior of leader. And also, this article intended to examine the relation between self-sacrificial leadership and subordinate's perception of obligation for self-sacrificial behavior, and organizational commitment. By extension, the purpose of this study was to investigate if personal(leader)identification by subordinate would play a mediating role between self-sacrificial leadership and outcome variables. We developed a research model and hypotheses in order to explore the theoretical relationships on the research issues. To test the model proposed, we obtained the survey data from 11 companies in various industries such as manufacturing, Construction, IT, Trading of industrial products, Finance, Hotel services, Business and Management Consulting. We distributed questionnaire of 390 to team member. Final data which was used for analysis was a total of 349 team members. The empirical results of this research indicate as follows. At first, self-sacrificial leadership was influencing subordinate's personal identification in leader. This means that self-sacrificial leadership is importantly influencing in forming employee's self-concept and identity as a role model. And also self-sacrifical leadership was influence follower's perception of obligation for self-sacrificial behavior, and also affecting their organizational commitment. These results implies that self-sacrificial leadership is positively influencing to employee's attitude for organization. Finally, personal(leader) identification made partially mediated between self-sacrificial leadership and outcome variables. Findings of this research provides that self-sacrificial leadership is importantly influencing employee's organizational behavior. This kind of various research findings provide useful insight that top management needs to in-depth consider in building desirable leadership model and behavior in organization in terms of it's influence. And it provides many cues in leadership and human resources management such as recruiting, selecting, and promoting to team leader position and so on.