Browse > Article
http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDC.2018.16.11.081

The Impact of Transactional Leadership to Organizational Commitment: The Mediating Effect of Followership  

Kang, Choon-Su (Graduation School, Gachon University)
Lee, Young Gyun (Department of Public Administration, Gachon University)
Publication Information
Journal of Digital Convergence / v.16, no.11, 2018 , pp. 81-87 More about this Journal
Abstract
Transactional leadership(TL) is to provide constructive feedback to organizational employee's commitment and to engender a positive impact on individuals and organizations. In this respect, this study is to investigate police's TL could positively influence organizational commitment, and is there a mediated effect in this impact empirically. This study based on the analysis on a random sample of police who has worked in Seongnam, Kwangjoo, and Hanam cities. The findings are the follows. (1) Police's TL has a positive effect on followership. (2) Police's TL has a positive effect on employees' commitment highly. (3) Police's followership has a positive effect on employees' commitment highly. (4) Followership has a partial mediated effect to relationship between Police's TL and employees' commitment. In these results, transactional leadership and followership are to verify a critical factor to improve police's organizational commitment.
Keywords
Leadership; Transactional Leadership; Organizational Commitment; Followership; Police;
Citations & Related Records
연도 인용수 순위
  • Reference
1 R. K. Greenleaf. (1997). Servant Leadership. NJ: Paulist Press.
2 X. Ma & W. Jiang. (2018). Transformational Leadership, Transactional Leadership, and Employee Creativity in Entrepreneurial Firms. The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1-23.
3 B. Crossman & J. Crossman. (2011). Conceptualising followership: a review of the literature. Leadership, 7(4), 481-497.   DOI
4 S. D. Baker. (2007). Followership: The theoretical foundation of contemporary construct. Journal of Leadership & Organization Studies, 14(1), 50-60.   DOI
5 J. S. Kwon. (2013). Four Characteristics of Followership - Its Effect on the Relationship Between Leadership and Job Commitment. Human Resource Management Studies, 20(1), 39-61.
6 J. W. Byun & J. Y. Ko. (2013). Effect of Leadership on Followership, Organization Trust, and Customer Orientation in the Super Deluxe Hotels. Journal of Food service Management Society of Korea, 16(6), 157-180.
7 S. H. Kim, S. M. Kwon & H. K. Yang. (2009). The Effect of Leadership and Followership types of hotel' employee on Organizational Commitment, Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention. Korean Journal of Hospitality & Tourism, 18(3), 81-97.
8 Y. Kim & J. Lee. (2011). The Study on Leadership, Followership, and Employee's Commitment to Productivity Enhancement at R&D Teams: Interaction Effects of Leadership Styles and Followership Styles. Organization and Personnel Management Studies, 35(1), 143-169.
9 Y. J. Choung & S. Kang. (2016). The Effects of Subordinate's Emotion caused by Leadership and Followership On the Turnover Intention : Focused on Family Restaurants. Tourism and Business Studies, 20(1), 273-300.
10 S. K. Lee. (2006). Impact of Transactional Leadership on Organizational Commitment: Focusing on Equity Perception. Tourism Research, 21(3), 1-17.
11 M. J. Kim & S. I. Jang. (2015). Effect of Transformational & Transactional Leadership on Organizational Commitment. Human Resource Management Studies, 22(1), 25-43.
12 Y. J. Han & D. K. Kim. (2011). A Study on the Relationship among Followership, Leader-Member Exchange(LMX) and Organizational Commitment in the Tourism and Convention Industry. Studies of Tourism and Leisure, 23(7), 299-318.
13 S. H. Choi & D. H. Lee. (2013). The Influence of Followership on Organizational Commitment and Innovative Behavior via LMX Quality. Journal of Industrial Economics and Business 26(5), 2407-2430.
14 R. Kelley. (1988) In praise of followers. Harvard Business Review, 66(6), 142-148.
15 Y. J. Lee & S. I. Jang. (2012). Influence of the transforming leadership of private security guards on job satisfaction, organizational commitment: focusing on the mediation. Journal of Convergence Security, 12(2), 23-33.
16 Y. B. Hu, H. J. Kim & S. Lee. (2018). The Impact of Paternalistic Leadership on Job Satisfaction: Focused on the Mediating Effect of Conformist Followership. Creativity and Innovation, 11(1), 71-114.
17 B. M. Bass & B. J. Avolio. (1995). MLQ Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire. Redwood City, CA: Mind Garden.
18 A. J. Colangelo. (2000). Followership Leadership Styles. Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation, The University of Oklahoma.
19 K. I. Kim. (2016). A Model of the Influence of IMS operation on organizational performance. Journal of the Convergence Society for SMB, 6(1), 1-5.
20 M. A. Kashefi, R. M. Adel, H. R. G. Abad, M. B. H. Aliklayeh, H. K. Moghaddam & G. Nadimi. (2013). Organizational Commitment and Its Effects on Organizational Performance. Interdisciplinary Journal of Contemporary Research Business, 4(12), 501-510.
21 J. P. Meyer & N. J. Allen. (1991). A three component conceptualization of organizational commitment, Human Resource Management Review, 1(1), 61-89.   DOI
22 Y. G. Lee, J. S. Park & Y. T. Han. (2009). The Effects Analysis of the Transformation and Transaction Leadership to Organizational Commitment in the Local Middle & High School. Korean Local Self-Government Studies, 11(3), 143-161.
23 Y. S. Noh. (2015). Factors Affecting on Organizational Commitment of Airline Flight of Crew in Convergency Society: Focus to Safety, Working Condition and Organizational Justice. Journal of the Korean Convergence Society, 6(4), 55-64.
24 A. S, Raja & P. Palanichamy. (2011). Leadership Styles and its Impact on Organizational Commitment. Asia Pacific Business Review, 7(3), 167-175.   DOI
25 B. G. Ryu, & E. Y. Ryu. (2013). A Study of the Relationship between Transformational/Transactional leadership and Organizational Effectiveness: Focusing on moderating effects of Organizational Culture. GRI Review, 15(3), 239-262.
26 L. W. Porter, R. M. Steers, R. T. Mowday & P. V. Boulian. (1974). Organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and turnover among psychiatric technicians, Journal of Applied Psychology, 59(5), 603-609.   DOI
27 K. H. Kim. (2017). The Effect of Transformational Leadership & Transactional Leadership on Organizational Commitment: Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy & Psychological Contract. Tourism Research, 42(3), 47-65.   DOI