• Journal of Korea Society of Digital Industry and Information Management
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.109-122
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• 2019

The goal of this research is to empirically examine how vocational skill development teachers' distributed leadership influences on job satisfaction, through organizational citizenship behavior and teacher empowerment. A nation-wide survey was conducted among vocational skills development teachers, the unemployed and teachers who have used a government-subsidized education card. First, the study revealed that vision has no significant influence on organizational citizenship behavior and teacher empowerment. Second, leader-plus has a significant influence on organizational citizenship behavior and teacher empowerment. Third, situation has no significant influence on organizational citizenship behavior and teacher empowerment. Fourth, organizational culture has a significant influence on organizational citizenship behavior and teacher empowerment. Fifth, a significant influence was found between teacher empowerment and organizational citizenship behavior. Lastly, organizational citizenship behavior and teacher empowerment has a significant influence on job satisfaction.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.45 no.8
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• pp.49-59
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• 2007

This study was intended to investigate the influence of teacher empowerment on organizational? effectiveness, and the moderating effects of personal and organizational characteristics on the relationship of teacher empowerment and organizational effectiveness in early childhood educational institutes. The subjects in this study were 808 teachers who worked at kindergartens and childcare centers located in all parts of Korea. This study was surveyed with the questionnaires. The results are as follows. Firstly, teacher empowerment had a positive and meaningful influence on all components of organizational effectiveness, such as organizational commitment, job satisfaction, and job performance. Secondly, as for the moderating effects of personal and organizational characteristics on the relationship of teacher empowerment and organizational effectiveness, teachers' educational background had moderating effects on job performance of organizational effectiveness, and married or unmarried status of teachers, teachers' experiences in other institutes, type of institute, and the number of teachers working in an institute had moderating effects on organizational commitment. Also, the number of teachers working in an institute had moderating effects on job satisfaction. However, teachers' period of service in their present institutes didn't have moderating effects between teacher empowerment and organizational effectiveness.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.31 no.2
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• pp.69-83
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• 2010

This study was a comparative investigation of the influence of demographic variables and teacher's empowerment on organizational effectiveness in public and private kindergartens. The subjects were 303 teachers at either public or private kindergartens. The measures used for this study were questionnaires, the SPES(School Participant Empowerment Scale) and the Organizational Effectiveness Scale. The survey used in this study and data were analyzed by means of a t-test, Pearson's correlation, and multiple regression analyses. The results showed that teachers in public kindergartens had higher scores in terms of both empowerment and organizational effectiveness than teachers in private kindergartens. Empowerment was seen to be an influential factor in measuring teacher's organizational effectiveness.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.35 no.3
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• pp.119-135
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• 2014

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationships between of kindergartens and child care centers director's servant leadership, teacher's organizational cynicism, empowerment, and organizational commitment. The subjects for this study were 760 teachers of kindergartens and child care centers located in Daegu, Kyoungbuk and Ulsan district. The data collected were analyzed by means of AMOS 19.0. The results indicated that 1) The director's servant leadership, teacher's empowerment and organizational cynicism have a direct influence on organizational commitment. 2) The director's servant leadership directly influences teacher's empowerment and organizational cynicism. 3) The director's servant leadership indirectly influences teacher's empowerment and organizational cynicism in terms of the level of organizational commitment.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.16 no.11
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• pp.29-36
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• 2018

Purpose - Research on community empowerment based on superior commodities to improve the economic resilience of the tourist village of Lumajang Regency is an investigative descriptive study to obtain an overview of the problems of community economic development, especially regarding economic resilience. The output of this research activity is the formation of integrated and comprehensive strategic programs and activities in order to improve economic empowerment and food security of the community around the tourist village. Research design, data, and methodology - This research method applies several methods of analysis such as the Loqation Quotion (LQ) method, SWOT analysis, Trend analysis, and analysis of Community Economic Empowerment in the agricultural sub-sector. Results - This research has strategic values and objectives in addition to providing important information to improve food security of tourism villages in Lumajang district in particular and disadvantaged communities in Indonesia in general. Through this supportive community economic empowerment programs, Lumajang District has an agricultural area and at the same time as a nature-based tourism area that supports it. Conclusion - Village tourism community empowerment activities are taken based on existing superior commodities. The existing tourism village program in Lumajang district can be used as one of the references for the upcoming tourism village program.

• Korean Journal of Human Ecology
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.795-803
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• 2010

This study sought to determine the mediating effect of followership in the relationship between the leadership of child care center director and empowerment as perceived by child care teachers. Data were collected from 294 child care teachers in child care centers located in four cities labeled A, B and C through a structured questionnaire. To describe data the Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis were computed. The level of child care center director's leadership which child care teacher perceived was 3.64 points in a scale of 5 points, child care teacher's empowerment was 3.50 points in a scale of 5 points and followership was 3.30 points in a scale of 5 points. COMMENT A positive correlations were found between leadership, empowerment and followership. Followership was shown to be a mediating variable between child care teachers' perceptions of leadership and empowerment. Furthermore, results also showed a strong relationship between the leadership of child-care center director and the child-care teachers' followership and empowerment, thus implying that the child-care teachers' followership is very important to increase the empowerment.

• Korean Journal of Child Studies
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.155-168
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• 2007

The subjects of this study of variables influencing job satisfaction were 153 public and 191 private kindergarten teachers in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province. Results showed that empowerment, workloads, and job satisfaction indexes (compensation, innovation, autonomy, and future growth) of public kindergarten were higher than private kindergarten teachers. Extrinsic job satisfaction correlated with professional growth and teacher empowerment for public kindergarten and with status for private kindergarten teachers intrinsic job satisfaction correlated with decision-making for public and with status for private kindergarten teachers. The strongest predictor of job satisfaction for public kindergarten was professional growth and status for private kindergarten teachers.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.15-26
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• 2019

Objective: The purpose of the study was, first, to look for the correlation among child care teacher's job burnout, their empowerment, and their flourishing. The second aim was to find out the relative effects of job burnout and empowerment on the flourishing of child care teachers. Methods: The participants were 296 child care teachers from Seoul, Gyeonggi and Jeon-nam districts among whom questionnaires were distributed. Correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were used for the analysis with SPSS 21.0 program. Results: The results revealed that, first, while there was significant correlation in child care teacher's job burnout, their empowerment, and their flourishing. Child care teacher's job burnout showed a significant negative correlation with their empowerment and their flourishing, and child care teacher's empowerment had a significant positive correlation with their flourishing. Second, the relative influence on the flourish of child care teachers was in the order of empowerment and job burnout. In terms of sub-factors, the relative influence on the flourish of child care teachers was in the order of professionalism, autonomy, self-efficacy and job dissatisfaction. This study is meaningful in that it provided the basic data for improving the quality level of the child care. Conclusion/Implications: This study suggests that basic data for improving the quality of the child care. In order to improve the flourishing of child care teacher, it is necessary to find effective ways to eliminate the job burnout and increase the empowerment.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.7 no.4
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• pp.377-383
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• 2021

The purpose of the study was to investigate the effects of early childhood teachers' empowerment and job satisfaction on their teacher-child interaction. The subjects were 550 early childhood teachers working for young children aged 3 to 5 at kindergartens and daycare centers in South Korea. The survey questionnaires were used to measure main variables. Pearson's correlation analysis and analysis of multiple regression were conducted to test research questions using the SPSS 26.0 Statistical Program. As the results, early childhood teachers' empowerment and job satisfaction were found to have the significantly positive correlation with their teacher-child interaction. In addition, early childhood teachers' empowerment and job satisfaction had significant effects on their level of teacher-child interaction.

• Culinary science and hospitality research
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• v.20 no.4
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• pp.239-252
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• 2014

This study aimed to identify the influence of a nutrition teacher's servant leadership on cooks' empowerment and organizational commitment in school organization. For this purpose, this study selected 288 cooks working in elementary, middle and high schools located in Daegu city, and conducted a survey toward them. The collected data were analyzed with the frequency analysis, the reliability verification, the correlation test, and the multi-regression analysis. As the results testing the hypotheses, the following 3 hypotheses were chosen as valid ones. First hypothesis: A nutrition teacher's servant leadership will positively(+) influence on cooks' empowerment. Second hypothesis: A nutrition teacher's servant leadership will positively(+) influence on cooks' organizational commitment. Third hypothesis: A cook's servant empowerment will positively(+) influence on his/her organizational commitment. Therefore, nutrition teachers should exercise their servant leadership so that cooks can be responsible for the quality of school meals and perform their work on the basis of autonomy and creativity. In order to perform the role of a servant leader, nutrition teachers will need to continually get various educational, training programs for enhancing their servant leadership.