변혁적·진정성 리더십이 중·소기업의 조직성과에 미치는 영향

Recently transformational leadership has become an object of many researchers’ attentions as the most effective leadership to strengthen competitiveness of a company in rapidly changing management environment. In order to search an alternative to overcome limits of transformational leadership, this research empirically studied how transformational and authentic leaderships had influences on organizational performance i.e., job satisfaction, innovative behavior and productivity with a moderating effect of an employee’s tenure and LMX, and a mediating effect of trust in CEO. As the empirical analysis results, as direct effects, transformational and authentic leaderships had all positive influences on job satisfaction, innovative behavior and productivity. However, as indirect effects, an employee’s continuous service period did not have a regulation effect and LMX had the effect only when authentic leadership was applied, not with transformational leadership. Also, trust in CEO exerted a perfect mediating effect. Particularly, it exercised the highest influence in the process of authentic leadership-LMX-trust in CEO-innovative behavior. In addition, as a comparison analysis result on transformational leadership and authentic one, the effect of the latter showed slightly higher than the former in a small or medium-sized company.