• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.437-450
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• 2015

This study was conducted to test mediating effects of emotional commitment between downward benevolence and team satisfaction & team innovative behavior. The data was collected from 125 teams out of 47 organizations that are located in Seoul and KyongGi in order to achieve research purpose. The results are as follows. First, downward benevolence was positively associated with team satisfaction and team innovative behavior. Second, emotional commitment was fully mediated with the relationships between downward benevolence and team satisfaction, and team innovative behavior respectively. The implications of current studies are follows. First, downward benevolence is one of the significant variables to improve team satisfaction and innovative behavior. Such results contribute to expanding research area of downward benevolence which accounts for Korean leadership style and Korean culture.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.6
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• pp.207-217
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• 2017

This study first presents the characteristics of emerging leadership researches by theoretically analyzing the studies related to leadership since the Millenium. The first finding is that most of leadership researches shared same if not similar aspects of transformational leadership. Secondly, much of leadership researches centered around horizonally expanded shared/distributed leadership. Thus, this researches analyzed the effectiveness of the shared/distributed leadership theory based on previous researches and found shared/distributed leadership has positive impact on member's recognized performance and innovative behavior. However, in competition-oriented culture, shared/distributed leadership did not control recognized performance of its members. This implies the demand for shared/distributed leadership is necessary today and research on the matter will expanded globally but, the results may differ according to the cultural value of the company.