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The Effects of Authentic Leadership on Leader Trust, Self Efficacy and Creative Behavior

진성 리더십이 상사 신뢰, 자기 효능감 및 창의적 행동에 미치는 영향

  • Song, Jung-Su (Department of Management Information Systems, University of Ulsan)
  • 송정수 (울산대학교 경영정보학과)
  • Received : 2016.07.20
  • Accepted : 2016.09.19
  • Published : 2016.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study includes: Firstly, to examine the effects of authentic leadership on leader trust, self efficacy, and creative behavior. Secondly, to examine the mediating effect of the leader trust, self efficacy on the relationship between authentic leadership and creative behavior. In order to verify the relationships and mediating effect, data were collected from convenient sample of 323 employees at small and medium enterprises in Busan, Ulsan, Gyeongju city to test theoretical model and its hypotheses. All data collected from the survey were analyzed using with SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. This study reports findings as followed: first, the relationship between the authentic leadership and the leader trust is positively related. Second, there was also a positive correlation between the authentic leadership and the self efficacy. Third, there was also a positive correlation between the authentic leadership and the creative behavior. Fourth, the relationship between the leader trust and the self efficacy is positively related. Fifth, there was also a positive correlation between the leader trust and the creative behavior. Sixth, there was also a positive correlation between the self efficacy and the creative behavior. Finally, the leader trust and self efficacy played as a partial mediator on the relationship between authentic leadership and creative behavior. Based on these findings, the limitations of the study and some directions for future studies were presented.

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