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The Effects of Ethical Leadership on Organizational Identification and Organizational Commitment

윤리적 리더십이 조직동일시와 조직몰입에 미치는 영향

  • Hwang, Sang-Kyu (Dept. of Business Administration, International University of Korea)
  • 황상규 (한국국제대학교 경영학과)
  • Received : 2014.10.17
  • Accepted : 2014.12.17
  • Published : 2014.12.31
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Abstract

The paper examines how ethical leadership and organizational identification contributed to explaining organizational commitment. In order to verify the relationships and mediating effect, data were collected from 256 individuals in employees working in small and medium-sized firms at Jinju, Changwon, Gimhae 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 ethical leadership and the organizational identification is positively related. Second, there was also a positive correlation between the organizational identification and the organizational commitment. Third, the relationship between the ethical leadership and the organizational commitment is positively related. Finally, the organizational identification played as a partial mediator on the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational commitment. Based on these findings, the implications and the limitations of the study were presented including some directions for future studies.

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