코칭리더십, 기본심리욕구, 혁신행동, 조직시민행동의 구조적 관계

This study examines structural relationships of coaching leadership, basic psychological needs, and outcome variables by the best structural model. The paper is conducted two parts comprehensively. First, coaching leadership will be positively related to basic psychological needs(autonomy, competence, relatedness) and outcome variables(innovative behaviors, OCB-I). Second, basic psychological needs will be positively related to outcome variables respectively and will mediate the links between coaching leadership and outcome variables. We show that coaching leadership had positive impacts to all needs respectively and positively related to OCB-I. Moreover, needs for competence had an significant effect to innovative behavior, over and above needs for relatedness accounted for variance of both outcome variables positively. The relationship between coaching leadership and innovative behavior was fully mediated by needs for competence and relatedness, and the relation of coaching leadership-OCB-I partially mediated by needs for relatedness. Implications of this paper are as followed. First, coaching leadership is imperative variable to indicate basic psychological needs and OCB-I, and the links between coaching leadership and basic psychological needs were demonstrated empirically. Such the results contribute to expand research area of leadership and needs theory. Second, basic psychological needs are a crucial variable to innovative behaviors and OCB-I. The result of which basic psychological needs had a discriminative effect to outcome variables will facilitate future studies. Third, mediating mechanism we found will contribute to account for why basic psychological needs are important variables in organizational change and development.