윤리적 리더십과 조직시민행동 간 직무만족의 매개효과 연구

The Mediating Effects of Job Satisfaction on the Relationship between Ethical Leadership and Organizational Citizenship Behavior

Purpose - This study examined on relations between ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior, and tested effects of mediating by job satisfaction. Design/Methodology/Approach - Questionnaires had been gathered 450 from employees of five province area in korea, and only 316 valid copies of them were used and statistically processed with the statistical program SPSSWIN 18.0 package. Findings - The major empirical results are as follows: First, ethical leadership had positive impact on job satisfaction. Second, the relation between ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior showed that ethical leadership had positive impact on altruism, civic virtue, conscientiousness, and had native impact on courtesy of organizational citizenship behavior. Third, effectiveness of mediating by job satisfaction between ethical leadership and organizational citizenship behavior had tested by multiple regression. The results had mediated on altruism as a perfect mediator and on civic virtue, conscientiousness as a partial mediator. Research Implications - The complete mediating effect by job satisfaction between ethical leadership and altruism suggests that only when job satisfaction is elevated, altruism that supports and collaborates with colleagues. This study has limitations in the following empirical analysis despite the strong suggestion of the ethical behavior for increased productivity and sustainable management of company. In addition, targets of questionnaires were not enough in regions, specific organization.