국내 임파워링 리더십 연구에 대한 고찰

This study reviewed the research trends of empowering leadership in Korea and aims at presenting a developmental direction of empowering leadership in Korea. A total of 83 papers published in the academic journals in Korea. The main results of analysis are as follows. First, the study of empowering leadership has been actively conducted in the last five years. The first paper was published in 2005 and more than 10 papers have been published every year since 2014, indicating the increasing interest of researchers on the topic of empowering leadership. Second, the study of empowering leadership was mostly studied in the field of management, but many scholars from various academic fields such as tourism, education, psychology and engineering have been also interested in studying empowering leadership. Third, in terms of research methodologies, the majority of studies adopted cross-sectional approach, and there were many studies using the same method, measuring independent and dependent variables from the same sources. In addition, the majority of studies utilized regressions based on Baron and Kenny(1986)'s approach in analysing the mediating model. There were also studies which used structural equation modeling. Fourth, empowering leadership mostly played a role as an independent variable in the research model. In addition, many behavioral or attitude variables were studied as dependent variables. Finally, the conceptual model for future research was suggested and the considerations for methodological development were discussed.