윤리적 리더십과 조직구성원의 태도 간의 관계에 대한 리더-구성원 교환관계(LMX)의 조절효과에 관한 연구

Abstract

Academics and business managers in today's industry are increasingly realizing the benefits of ethical management and leadership as well as the qualitative and quantitative results these management styles can yield. Based on the review of ethical leadership, this study researches the effects of ethical leadership on Organizational Member's attitudes (organizational commitment, job satisfaction) for Korea and China, and the mediating effect of Leader-Member Exchange between ethical leadership and Organizational Member's attitudes. In this study the data is collected through questionnaire survey with scientific methods, and the sample contains 391 sets. 187 sets of employees of Korea and 204 sets of employees of China. Main findings of our empirical results are as follows. The relationships between ethical leadership and both job satisfaction and organizational commitment were positively associated respectively and the LMX have not positively moderated these relationship between ethical leadership and Organizational Member's attitudes in Korea, but has positively moderated these relationship between ethical leadership and Organizational Member's attitudes in China. Therefore, Organizational members serve as factors that increase employee satisfaction with current job when their leaders perform morally and sincerely and show fair and ethical leadership. From the ethical behavior of the leader, the members of the organization can trust the leader and promote the sense of unity for the organization. Ethical leadership raises the attitude of the organization members through the quality of the Leader-Member Exchange relation. In the case of China, in order to increase the performance of organizational members, organizational managers suggest that they should emphasize not only their own ethical behavior, but also the leader-organization member exchange relationship (LMX).