임파워링 리더십이 조직구성원들의 개인성장과 업무성과 향상에 미치는 영향: 심리적 의미감의 매개역할과 직무특성인식의 조절역할

This study investigated the impact of empowering leadership on psychological meaningfulness, personal growth, task performance. In particular, this study examined employees' psychological meaningfulness as a mediator in the relationship between empowering leadership, personal growth, task performance On the basis of theoretical linkages between the constructs, a conceptual model and hypotheses were established. Empirical data were collected by using a set of questionnaires. This survey was administered to employees working in service firms. 487 samples were used for the analysis. Structural equation modeling(SEM) was employed to test the hypothesized relationships in the conceptual model. This study shows that the proposed model is reasonably fit to the actual data. From these analyses, we can find some significant results and implications. For the additional analysis, the hierarchical regression analyses was used in this study. First, the empowering leadership has directive impact on personal growth and task performance. Second, psychological meaningfulness has mediated effects in the relationship between empowering leadership, personal growth and task performance. Third, Perceived Job characteristics had moderating effect between empowering leadership and psychological meaningfulness.