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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2014.16.4.285

The Effects of Ethical Leadership on Organizational Identification and Organizational Commitment  

Hwang, Sang-Kyu (Dept. of Business Administration, International University of Korea)
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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.16, no.4, 2014 , pp. 285-294 More about this Journal
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.
Keywords
Ethical Leadership; Organizational Identification; Organizational Commitment; Mediation;
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