코칭리더십이 직무열의에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 강점활용의 매개효과와 리더-구성원 교환관계의 조절효과를 중심으로

The purpose of this study is to analyze the relationship between coaching leadership and job involvement by examining how leaders' coaching leadership affects employees' work engagement and identifying the structural relationship of the mediating effect of strengths use. This study also analyzes the influence of the leader-member exchange relationship on this relationship. Data were collected from 250 employees working in a domestic company at individual-level, and the presence of a leader in the work environment was determined at the time of data collection. The empirical analysis revealed that, first, coaching leadership had a positive effect on work engagement. Second, strengths use partially mediated the relationship between coaching leadership and work engagement. Third, the leader-member exchange relationship played a moderating role in strengthening the relationship between coaching leadership and work engagement. Based on the above findings, this study suggests that it is necessary for leaders to promote coaching leadership to ensure organizational competitiveness. In addition, this study provides important implications for the field of human resource management in Korea by empirically demonstrating that the effect of coaching leadership on work engagement can be better explained by the mediating effect of strength use and the moderating effect of leader-member exchange relationship.