• Korean Security Journal
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• no.28
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• pp.7-31
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• 2011

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of the psychological empowerment of security guards to their service orientation and organizational performance. The subjects in this study were 300 security guards who were selected by purposive sampling from the population that consisted of the workers in private security agencies located in the cities of Chungan and Ahsan in 2011. After a survey was conducted, the answer sheets from 271 respondents were analyzed. The statistical package SPSS WIN 18.0 was employed to make a factor analysis, reliability analysis, multiple regression analysis and path analysis. The findings of the study were as follows: First, psychological empowerment affected service orientation. Better meaning and better self-determination led to better service human resources management, better service leadership and better service encounter management. Second, psychological empowerment exerted an influence on organizational performance. Stronger impact and better meaning led to stronger organizational commitment, higher job satisfaction and better performance. Third, service orientation had an impact on organizational performance. Better service human resources management, better service leadership and better service encounter management were followed by stronger organizational commitment, better job satisfaction and higher performance. Fourth, psychological empowerment exercised a firsthand and secondhand influence on service orientation and organizational performance. Given the findings of the study, managers of security agencies should keep in mind the unique working environments of employees, and they should empower employees to show what they can do in consideration of their changing working environments and let them assume the responsibility for their own job performance. That will encourage them to provide better service for customers, which will serve, in turn, to bolster the organizational performance.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.665-674
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• 2011

This study examined how students' satisfaction with their major department influences their organizational commitment and intention to pursue a career in tourism-related fields among college students majoring in hospitality and tourism. The results indicated that their overall satisfaction with their department affected positively their organizational commitment but not the behavioral intention to pursue career in the tourism-related fields. Organizational commitment, on the other hands, exerted a positively significant influence behavioral intention to pursue tourism-related career. The results of this study underscored the needs for the educators to manage students' psychological attachment to the department they belong to and their major field of study. Continuous relationship-building efforts should be made for the students to pursue tourism-related career after graduation. Such efforts include efficient communication between faculty and students, extended supports from the school and alumni to the students, and last but not the least, sufficient supports from colleges.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.85-99
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• 2014

The empowering leadership as perceived by the members of the organization have an influence on the psychological attitudes of them toward their jobs, and again these psychological attitudes might affect their Organizational culture type. Thus, this study tried to mediating effects of Organizational Culture on the relationships between Empowering-Leadership and Creativity and Job attitude. The results of this study are as followings; First, Empowering-leadership is positively related to Creativity, Organizational commitment and Job satisfaction. except leading by example & participative decision-making in organizational commitment of Job attitude. Second, the mediating effects of Organizational culture had a significant effects on part of relationships in each variable. Results indicated that managing Organizational culture is contributed to the member's attitude and organization performance so that the supervisor should make efforts to develop managing skill in their Organizational culture to fit their nature.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.416-426
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• 2020

The purpose of this research is to explore the relationship between organizational cultural perception gap and organizational effectiveness. it has rarely been studied in the academia. The research of the organizational cultural perception gap provides entrepreneurs directions on how to manage a company. Since previous studies have been focused on cultural type or strength, this study aims to suggest managerial implication in detail by analyzing present-ideal gap. Furthermore, this study would discover how it is different according to a psychological mechanism. The empirical results of 134 employees showed that the organizational cultural perception gap (i.e. Clan) had a negative effect on job satisfaction and affective commitment. In order to reduce the negative effects of organizational cultural perception gap, it is necessary to reach an agreement with members on organizational culture, which is ideal for organizational level, and understanding the members' internal motivations is important for proper organizational management.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.11 no.12
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• pp.145-154
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• 2013

This research draws the factors of managerial performance that was verified by research model and hypothesis after considering research type, factors of performance and research model. The result of this research is as below. Firstly, psychological traits, capabilities of CEO is positively correlated with cost superior tactic and organizational effectiveness Secondly, entrepreneurial capability of CEO is positively correlated with organizational effectiveness for and managerial capability of CEO is positively correlated with cost superior tactic and technical capability of CEO is positively correlated with organizational effectiveness. Thirdly, technical resource is positively correlated with product innovation differentiation tactic, and organizational effectiveness and finance resource is positively correlated with marketing differentiation tactic and organizational effectiveness, and marketing capability is positively correlated with product differentiation tactic, marketing. Fourthly, product innovation-differentiation tactic, marketing differentiation tactic, and cost superior tactic are positively correlated with organizational effectiveness.

• Journal of vocational education research
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.265-289
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• 2010

This study aims to identify effects of outplacement support program for discharged soldier to settle and adapt successfully in Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs. The subject of this study are 323 discharged soldiers who completed the outplacement support program. A survey questionnaire is conducted to measure variables of this study. All data analysis is accomplished using the AMOS 7.0 version. The results of this study are as follows. First, learning motivation has direct effect on learning flow and program satisfaction positively. Second, organizational support has direct effect on program satisfaction, psychological stability positively and on learning flow negatively. Third, outplacement support program has direct effect on learning flow, program satisfaction, job-seeking efficacy and psychological stability positively. Fourth, learning flow has direct effect on program satisfaction positively but don't have direct effect on job-seeking efficacy and psychological stability significantly. Fifth, learning motivation, outplacement support program has direct effect on job-seeking efficacy and psychological stability with partial mediation effect of program satisfaction while without mediation effect of learning flow. Based on the results of the study, the following recommendations have been made. First, it is necessary to design the outplacement support program with contents in relation to discharged soldiers' successful settlement because discharged soldiers who completed the outplacement support program showed higher job-seeking efficacy and psychological stability. Second, it is needed to conduct a longitudinal study considering other variables such as employment, establishment success etc.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.11 no.8
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• pp.287-296
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• 2020

The purpose of this study is to explore the differences in aesthetic experience according to the level of audience participation. Flow experience and aesthetic distance were utilized as proxies for aesthetic experience. A total of 70 undergraduates participated in the experiments of this study. In terms of flow experience, active participation groups were found to have relatively greater flow experiences compared to contemplation groups and passive participation groups. However, there was no difference in flow experience between the contemplation groups and the passive participation groups. In light of aesthetic distance, which means psychological distance, people in active participation groups were found to have a closer psychological distance from artwork than those in contemplation groups and passive participation groups. Also, those who belonged to the passive participation group showed a closer psychological distance than the contemplation group. The results of this study provide artists and art organizations with implications for enhancing audience attraction as well as the completeness of artwork.

• Journal of the military operations research society of Korea
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.157-176
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• 2009

The main purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among individual career management behavior, organizational career management help and organizational commitment based on psychological contract. The research model takes multi-dimensional perspective. The empirical study has been done using data collected from 360 military officers. The research findings are as follows: First, individual career management behavior is directly linked to the experience of organizational career management help. Second, both individual and organizational career management behaviors are connected to organizational commitment. Especially, career help from military organizations is closely related to affective commitment. Third, psychological contract fulfillment plays a key role in mediating the relationship between organizational career management help and affective commitment. These findings provide some support for the dimensional effects of individual career management behavior on organizational career management, psychological contract fulfillment and organizational commitment in military sector.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.199-230
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• 2012

This study introduced trust dimension as a mediating variable and analyzed in order to investigate the empirical mechanism on the process of leader's emotional intelligence which is a emotional factor to produce organizational effectiveness. Based on the empirical analysis, first of all, this study found whether the team leader's emotional intelligence gives an influence on the subordinate's trust in leader. Secondly, this study examined the multidimensionality of trust by selecting subordinate's cognition-based trust and affect-based trust on the team leader as mediating variables between team leaders's emotional intelligence and subordinate's affective commitment, organizational citizenship behavior. I found the theoretical implications based on this study; first, from the view on cognition-based and emotion-based trust, the integrated verification of the process of the trust in leader as a mediating role, second, verification of the relationship between leader's emotional intelligence and trust in leader which was not studied before, third, the methodological try to prevent from the common method bias problem through the evaluation of a team leader on a subordinate's organizational citizenship behavior. This study also suggested the ways to apply those theoretical implications to human resource management.

• Management & Information Systems Review
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.89-114
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• 2012

The purposes of this research are to examine the effect of humor sense of leader on innovative behavior and to examine the moderating effects of empowerment on the relationship between humor sense of leader and innovative behavior. For these purposes, literature review and survey research were conducted. The 350 questionnaires were sent to the 10 manufactural firms in the Pusan and Kyungsang Nam-Do region for empirical analysis. Total 276 usable responses were collected(effective response rate : 78.86%). The major findings of the empirical research are as follows ; First, generation of humor, use of humor, attitude of humor and evaluation of humor which are composed factors of humor sense of leader have positive influence innovative behavior. Second, composed factors of humor sense of leader have differential influence on innovative behavior by empowerment. In conclusion, humor sense of leader is expected to improve innovative behavior which is individual behavior in an organization. Therefore, managers have to develop innovative behavior by exhibiting humor sense, considering empowerment.