부정적 리더십이 직무열의에 미치는 영향 : 경험회피와 내재적 직무동기의 조절된 매개효과

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediating effect of experience avoidance and the moderating effect of intrinsic job motivation of members of the organization in the influence of leaders’ negative leadership on job engagement. For this, the survey was conducted with 400 employees in four small and medium-sized IT companies based in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province, and the data of 377 people were analyzed using SPSS 25 and Mplus 7, excluding twenty-three invalid responses. The analysis of the moderated mediating effect was performed in the order of the measurement model analysis, mediating effect model analysis, and moderated mediating effect analysis using the structural equation. Analysis showed that negative leadership had a significantly negative effect on job engagement and that the experience avoidance partially mediated the relationship between negative leadership and job engagement. In addition, there was a moderated mediating effect in which the influence of negative leadership on job engagement through the mediating of experience avoidance was controlled by intrinsic job motivation, that is higher experience avoidance, lower job engagement. In other words, high intrinsic job motivation showed higher job engagement compared to low intrinsic job motivation, and the higher the influence of experience avoidance, the lower the job engagement. On the other hand, when intrinsic job motivation was low, the influence of experience avoidance on job engagement was low. This study verified that the influence of negative leadership on job engagement had a mediating effect on experience avoidance, and identified the role of intrinsic job motivation as a coping strategy increasing the job engagement with an understanding of job engagement. Based on these results, the implications and limitations of the current study were discussed and suggestions for further study were described.