리더의 감성지능이 구성원에 과업성과에 미치는 영향: LMX와 심리적 임파워먼트의 매개효과를 중심으로

Emotional intelligence is a set of interrelated abilities for identifying, understanding,and managing emotions, both in the self and in others(Salovey & Mayer, 1990). Psychology and management researchers were interested in studying the constructof emotional intelligence. But, there are few studies on how emotional intelligencecontributes to positive outcome in organization. We thus propose that leader’semotional intelligence can help explain the development of members’ high taskperformance. Furthermore, this study examined LMX and psychological empowermentas a mediator in the relationship between leader’s emotional intelligence andmembers’ task performance. We collected the survey data from 110 leader-member dyads from seven organizationsin South Korea, Moreover, structural equation modeling(SEM) was employedto test the hypothesized relationships in the conceptual model using AMOS 18. The following results were obtained. First, leader’s emotional intelligence ispositively related to members’ task performance. Second, leader’s emotional intelligenceis positively related to LMX. Third, LMX is positively related to psychologicalempowerment. Fourth, psychological empowerment related to members’ task performance. Finally, LMX and psychological empowerment have mediated effects on therelationship between leader’s emotional intelligence and members’ task performance.