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The Effect of Railway Corporation Leadership of Middle Manager Employees' on Empowerment and Innovative Behavior

철도운영기업 중간관리자의 리더십이 종사원들의 임파워먼트와 혁신행동에 미치는 영향

  • Hwang-Bo, Jak (Department of railway management Administration, Dongyang University)
  • Received : 2015.07.29
  • Accepted : 2015.11.06
  • Published : 2015.12.31

Abstract

This paper empirically analyzed the effect that the leadership of middle managers had on empowerment and innovative behavior, as measured by employees of a domestic railway corporation. The results demonstrate that transactional leadership had a positive effect on both empowerment and innovative behavior. However, transformational leadership did not exhibit immediate effects on innovative behavior. In addition, it was also found that empowerment completely mediated the relationship between transformational leadership and innovative behavior. Therefore, the results of this study imply that the leadership of middle managers in a railway corporation is an important influential factor which causes innovative behavior in employees. Specifically, to induce voluntary innovative behaviors in employees through transformational leadership, utilizing empowerment to instill a right to make decisions through the delegation of the right is a very important factor.

본 연구는 국내 철도운영기업 종사자를 대상으로 그들이 인지하는 중간관리자의 리더십이 임파워먼트와 혁신행동에 미치는 영향에 대하여 실증분석 하였다. 분석결과, 거래적 리더십은 임파워먼트와 혁신행동에 모두 정(+)의 영향을 미쳤으나, 변혁적 리더십은 혁신행동에 직접적인 영향을 미치지 않았다. 그러나 변혁적 리더십과 혁신행동과의 관계에서 임파워먼트는 완전매개 됨을 알 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구 결과, 철도운영기업 중간관리자의 리더십은 종사원들의 혁신행동을 유발하는 중요한 영향요인이며, 특히 변혁적 리더십을 통한 종사원들의 자발적 혁신행동을 이끌어 내기 위해서는, 권한위임을 통한 의사결정권이 주어지는 임파워먼트의 활용이 매우 중요한 요인임을 시사하고 있다.

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