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The Effects of Servant Leadership on Organizational Identification and Innovative Behavior

서번트 리더십이 조직동일시와 혁신행동에 미치는 영향

  • Hwang, Sang-Kyu (Dept. of Business Administration, International University of Korea)
  • 황상규 (한국국제대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2016.01.19
  • Accepted : 2016.03.23
  • Published : 2016.03.31
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Abstract

The paper examines how servant leadership and organizational identification contributed to explaining innovative behavior. In order to verify the relationships and mediating effect, data were collected from 298 individuals in employees working in small and medium-sized firms at Jinju, Changwon, Gimhae, Busan City to test theoretical model and its hypotheses. All data collected from the survey were analyzed using with SPSS 18.0. This study reports findings as follows: first, the relationship between the servant leadership and the organizational identification is positively related. Second, there was also a positive correlation between the organizational identification and the innovative behavior. Third, the relationship between the servant leadership and the innovative behavior is positively related. Finally, the organizational identification played as a partial mediator on the relationship between servant leadership and innovative behavior. Based on these findings, the implications and the limitations of the study were presented including some directions for future studies.

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