적응적 리더십이 조직동일시에 미치는 영향: 집단지성과 조직경력성장의 직렬다중매개효과

In highly uncertain managerial environments, businesses and organizations must continuously perceive and actively address changes to survive amidst perpetual crises. Adapting to rapid environmental changes necessitates fostering positive psychological states and attitudes among organizational members. Therefore, many organizations strive to identify and apply the most suitable leadership styles that aid members in adapting to environmental shifts. This study aims to investigate the impact of adaptive leadership, which actively addresses environmental changes, on organizational identification and emotional support for members. Additionally, it seeks to elucidate the serial multiple mediating effects of collective intelligence and organizational career growth throughout this process. To empirically test the hypotheses, a survey was conducted among 425 employees from various industries and job categories in Korea. The results revealed that, first, adaptive leadership positively affects organizational identification. Second, adaptive leadership was found to have a positive mediating effect on collective intelligence and organizational career growth. Third, both collective intelligence and organizational career growth exhibited positive mediating effects between adaptive leadership and organizational identification, confirming the presence of serial multiple mediating effects, with all indirect effects being significant as verified by bootstrapping. This study not only empirically validates the mechanism through which adaptive leadership enhances a sense of unity with the organization via the perception of collective intelligence and organizational career growth but also expands the existing research on adaptive leadership. Based on the findings, theoretical and practical implications are presented, along with discussions on the limitations of the current study and directions for future research.