• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.52 no.3
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• pp.91-119
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• 2018

The primary focus of this study was on the development of a leadership scale to measure the leadership capacities of university library middle managers. The study included the following research activities. Firstly, broad and narrow scopes were determined and their corresponding questions were selected to develop a leadership scale of university middle managers by analyzing the previous related research findings. Secondly, the scopes and the questions were revised through the Delphi survey method, Thirdly, a survey was conducted to develop a simplified model of the leadership scale. The research outcomes led to three types of leadership scale of the university library middle manager. This study identified the leadership factors of middle managers in the university libraries. The resulting developed leadership scale should serve as the basic information for the existing middle managers' leadership capacity development.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.28 no.1
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• pp.253-270
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• 2017

In the knowledge society, alternative leadership induces voluntary participation by motivating the members through horizontal, emotional approach and responsibility. There is little theoretical discussion about theoretical research on alternative leadership and its applicability in university libraries. In this study, we will discuss the theoretical review of alternative leadership, the change of knowledge management paradigm in university library, the role of manager and librarian, and alternative leadership application. Through this, I would like to suggest the development direction for strengthening the leadership of the librarians who will lead the university library.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.125-147
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to find out how the leadership of superiors at the university library - transformational and transactional leadership - could affect the job satisfaction of subordinates. For this purpose, verification was performed with the subject of 155 librarians working at 11 university libraries in Busan. The following are the results of this study. 1) There was positive correlation between the leadership type of superiors and the job satisfaction of subordinates. Transformational leadership turned out to have higher correlation with job satisfaction than transactional leadership. 2) Intellectual stimulation·inspiration affects promotion practices and supervision style. 3) When analyzing the controlling effect of individual characteristics, only gender and marital status are used as a controlling variables between transformational leadership and job satisfaction.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.49 no.3
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• pp.361-382
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• 2018

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of shared leadership, authenticity leadership, and self - leadership on the recognition of organizational effectiveness of university librarians, which is an alternative concept of existing leadership. The purpose of this study is to examine whether leadership styles have more influence on recognition of organizational effectiveness, and whether there is a moderating effect of emotional intelligence on the relationship between leadership and organizational effectiveness. A total of 140 questionnaires were collected from 275 librarians of 55 university librarians working in the university libraries nationwide. The effect of alternative leadership, which is an independent variable, on organizational effectiveness was partially derived, and self - leadership had the greatest effect on job satisfaction, and control effect of emotional intelligence The results of this study are as follows. Although this study does not claim new concepts and facts in the field of leadership and organizational validity, it can be said that it contributes to introducing the theoretical relation to new concepts of alternative leadership which has not been relatively studied in the field of linguistic informatics.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.42 no.1
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• pp.145-164
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• 2011

University libraries in Korea are facing a crisis because of decline of users and librarian reduction from internet development and digital media. To solve this problem, author referred to the literatures on change management of company. Because there are many accumulating knowledge and experiences about company change management. It is necessary to lead the sympathetic sense of crisis by all university librarians. The vision should be made by all librarians' agreement. But the vision practice is more important than developing. In order to practice the vision, it is more useful to share the leadership with general manager and influential librarians in Korea university libraries. Furthermore, systematic leadership training for librarians is needed than ever.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.44 no.2
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• pp.139-156
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to examine how the transformational leadership of university library managers affected the empowerment of university librarians and their organizational effectiveness. In this study, we examined the impact of transformational leadership on empowerment, and the impact of empowerment on organizational effectiveness. We then examined the mediating role of the empowerment between the transformational leadership and organizational effectiveness. Empirical results are as follows: empowerment and organizational effectiveness are significantly influenced by transformational leadership, organizational effectiveness is significantly influenced by empowerment, and the impact of transformational leadership on organizational effectiveness is mediated by empowerment.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.38 no.2
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• pp.85-104
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• 2007

This study is to analyze impacts that the transformational and transactional leadership of middle managers at university libraries affects the empowerment of university librarians and to suggest future directions of leadership development aimed at improving the empowerment of university librarians. The results of this study are summarized as follows: The transformational and transactional leadership showed a positive effect on empowerment in university librarians. The most influential factors of transformational leadership on the empowerment factors showed 'individualized consideration’ on the three empowerment factors except 'impact’ and 'individualized consideration’ and 'intellectual stimulation’ on the 'impact’ of empowerment. And the most influential factors of transactional leadership on the empowerment factors showed 'contingent reward’. The transformational leadership showed a greater relative impact on empowerment when compared with the transactional leadership.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.33 no.1
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• pp.265-289
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• 2002

In this study, the best Total Quality Management(TQM) implementation model for university libraries is focused through the study of the theoretical background such as the concept the quality and the development of TQM. The study on the application of TQM to university libraries was started with the recognition that university libraries have to work out a new strategy of a positive and active counter plan to cope with the change of environment. The detailed purpose of this study is (1) the diagnosis of the applicability of TQM to university libraries (2) the suggestion of the TQM implementation models suitable for university libraries (3) the analysis of the influence of the manager's leadership-which is the fundamental factor of TQM-over the organization\`s culture, the job satisfaction the consumer satisfaction in the university libraries organization Management.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science
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• v.38 no.4
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• pp.5-24
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• 2004

This study was conducted to find out how the team organization works and to suggest better ways of applying the team system to a library organization. In this study, the survey was conducted to examine the characteristics of the university libraries that have adopted the team system, and the problems in operation were analysed. The findings indicate that staffs at the university libraries had a comparatively negative image of the team system, and that university library has provided insufficient training and less supports for their staffs in the process of adopting the system. This study might be applicable to any strategy which seeks to reduce bureaucracy, empower staff, create a team system culture. and enhance the delivery of high qualify services.

• Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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• v.35 no.4
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• pp.23-40
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• 2004

This study examined the impact of team characteristics(introduction of the team approach team empowerment, leadership of team leaders, open communication director's commitment) on team effectiveness (adaptability to the environments, job satisfaction the positive team culture, cost efficiency) in university libraries. The study used a survey design with a questionnaire to staffs who worked at f academic libraries in South Korea. The major findings from the empirical analysis are as follows. The well-prepared introduction of team approach and director's strong commitment were positively related to the team effectiveness variables such as adaptability to environment, job satisfaction, and cost efficiency.