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http://dx.doi.org/10.12812/ksms.2016.18.1.191

The Effects of Servant Leadership on Organizational Identification and Innovative Behavior  

Hwang, Sang-Kyu (Dept. of Business Administration, International University of Korea)
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Journal of the Korea Safety Management & Science / v.18, no.1, 2016 , pp. 191-201 More about this Journal
Abstract
The paper examines how servant leadership and organizational identification contributed to explaining innovative behavior. In order to verify the relationships and mediating effect, data were collected from 298 individuals in employees working in small and medium-sized firms at Jinju, Changwon, Gimhae, Busan 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 servant leadership and the organizational identification is positively related. Second, there was also a positive correlation between the organizational identification and the innovative behavior. Third, the relationship between the servant leadership and the innovative behavior is positively related. Finally, the organizational identification played as a partial mediator on the relationship between servant leadership and innovative behavior. Based on these findings, the implications and the limitations of the study were presented including some directions for future studies.
Keywords
Servant Leadership; Organizational Identification; Innovative Behavior; Mediation;
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