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http://dx.doi.org/10.7731/KIFSE.2013.27.6.104

The Effects of Transformational Leadership on Organizational Culture and Innovation in the Fire Fighting Organization  

Park, Chang-Soon (Dept. of Fire Safety Management, Tong Won University)
Choi, Kyu-Chool (Dept. of Fire Safety Management, Tong Won University)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.27, no.6, 2013 , pp. 104-114 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study is intended to figure out the effects of supervisors' transformational leadership on organizational culture and innovation in the fire fighting organization. To achieve this, a survey was carried out to fire officers from the National Emergency Management Agency and Seoul Metropolitan Fire & Disaster Headquarters. The results are as follows. First, the effect of supervisors' transformational leadership on organizational culture showed that supervisors' transformational leadership had an effect on group culture, norm culture and rational culture by sub-factors of organizational culture in the fire fighting organization. Second, the effect of organizational culture on organizational innovation showed that group culture and rational culture had an effect on organizational innovation. Third, the effect of supervisors' transformational leadership on organizational innovation showed that supervisors' transformational leadership had an effect on organizational innovation. As for findings stated above, supervisors' transformational leadership had positive effects on organizational culture and innovation in the fire fighting organization. Consequently, supervisors' energetic and change-seeking leader-ship for junior staffs with existing organization-and new generation-oriented new thinking system can contribute to rational culture and development-oriented innovation based on norms in the group.
Keywords
Fire fighting organization; Transformational leadership; Organizational culture; Organizational innovation;
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