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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2012.13.12.5786

A Study on the effect of Knowledge workers's Job Characteristics on Organizational Commitment -Shared Leadership as a Moderating variable  

Jee, Cheoulgyu (Graduate School, Kyunghee University)
Chang, Youngchul (Graduate School, Kyunghee University)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.13, no.12, 2012 , pp. 5786-5799 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this era of the knowledge-based economy, the most important issue that we faced is the management of the knowledge workers who is the main source of enterprise. There has been a big issue on the organizational commitment recently which is the idea of how much employees have a positive affection to the enterprise they work for and also how much time, knowledge and energy employees are willing to invest for their company success. Improving this concept would provide a meaningful implication in managing the knowledge workers. This research which is based on previous studies, it aims to control the effect on the organizational commitment by Shared Leadership which puts the job characteristics of knowledge workers into a dominant factor. As a result of the study, among the several job characteristics, autonomy and a feedback had a positive effect on the organizational commitment. Shared Leadership as a moderating variable, has shown an affirmative effect on autonomy, a feedback, and problem solving as an independent variable and on the organizational commitment as a dependent variable. However, related to the job complexity, it did not show a notable influence. Also, the Shared Leadership has shown a favorable impact on the feedback and problem solving, but barely effected on autonomy or job complexity.
Keywords
Knowledge worker; Job Characteristics; Organizational Commitment; Shared leadership;
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