공공기관 구성원의 진성리더십이 조직시민행동에 미치는 영향: 팔로워십의 매개효과

In recent years, public organizations in Korea is facing various changes to which rapid actions have to be taken. This brings the importance of authentic leadership into focus, which helps to motivate employees positively. However, there are few empirical studies in Korea on this issue focusing on the internal environment of public institutions. The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of authentic leadership on organizational citizenship behavior, which is employees’ voluntary and proactive behavior for the development of their organization. Furthermore, the characteristics of followership is also handled as a mediating variable since it works as an important factor with regards to the effectiveness of leadership in organizations. Total 350 survey questionnaire was distributed to employees working in A public organizations for the analysis, and 234 of them has been used for the hierarchical analysis. According to the analysis, authentic leadership has a positive effect on organizational citizenship behavior―altruism, conscientiousness, sportsmanship‧civic virtue. It is also investigated that the followership’s characteristic of passive and active engagement is mediating the effect which authentic leadership has on organizational citizenship behavior. This study has found the importance of authentic leadership and effective followership of employees in public institutes, and that developing authentic leadership and effective followership in public organizations can promote employees’ organizational citizenship behavior―voluntary extra-role behavior.