팀장의 윤리적 리더십과 직무만족의 관계: 임파워먼트의 매개효과 및 조직정체성의 조절효과를 중심으로

This paper examines the impact of team leader’s ethical leadership influences on the job satisfaction for coping with organizational change. And it sought to empirically demonstrate the mediating effect of empowerment and moderating effect of organizational identity between ethical leadership and job satisfaction. For an empirical the study, we surveyed through the Korean 43 large corporations, running a team level organization and gathered 437 data. The results showed under the organizational change situation. First, team leader’s ethical leadership was positively related to the empowerment. Second, the empowerment was positively related to the job satisfaction. Third, the empowerment showed a significant mediating effect on the relationship between leader’s ethical leadership and job satisfaction. Finally, the organizational identity had the moderating effect on the relationship between team leader’s ethical leadership and the empowerment. In the process of this analysis, we provide theoretical and practical implication as following: First, using the empowerment and organizational identity as mediating and moderating variables, this research suggests the mechanism of ethical leadership to connect to the positive job attitudes through the psychological change of members. Second, the scope of ethical leadership research was expanded by verifying the interaction of the organizational identity, which is rarely used in leadership research. Third, when the companies try to establish the new team and designating the team leader, they should make decision based on the ethicality based on the effect of ethic leadership. Finally demonstrating the effect of the empowerment and organizational identity, they should let members enhance through the the autonomy and corporate image, marketing, and CSR (corporate social responsibility) and so on.