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The Effects of Ethical Leadership on In-Role Behavior and Psychological Capital: The Moderating Role of Management Decoupling and Personal Decoupling

팀장의 윤리적 리더십이 팀원들의 역할 내 행동과 긍정심리자본에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구: 괴리현상의 조절효과를 중심으로

  • 김문주 (이화여자대학교 경영연구소)
  • Received : 2017.02.23
  • Accepted : 2017.03.09
  • Published : 2017.04.28
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Abstract

The present empirical research examines the effect of team leader's ethical leadership on team members' in-role behavior and psychological capital. This study also predicts that management decoupling and personal decoupling will moderate the effect of ethical leadership negatively. A growing body on leadership research highlights the role of team leader's moral manager in team settings. Ethical leadership also becomes a salient issue in the situation of unethical decision making and misuse of management power which have done by unethical leaders all around the world. In order to identify the effect of ethical leadership, I collected data of 922 team members from bank, semiconductor manufacturer, and university hospital. Our findings show that ethical leaderships have a positive effect on team members' in-role behavior and psychological capital. In addition, I also found the significant moderation effect of management decoupling which team members perceive their top management team's inauthenticity. Contrary to the prediction, however, the result doesn't support the moderation effect of personal decoupling. I discussed implications of confirming and disconfirming findings in details.

거대기업들의 분식회계와 비윤리적인 기업경영, 리더십의 부재를 지켜보면서 본 연구는 팀장의 윤리적 리더십이 팀원들의 역할 내 행동과 긍정심리자본에 미치는 영향력을 실증적으로 규명하고 경영진 괴리현상과 개인 괴리현상의 조절효과를 분석하고 있다. 팀을 이끌어가고 있는 팀장의 윤리적 리더십이 팀원들에게 제대로 받아들여짐으로써 긍정적인 성과를 가져올 수 있지만 조직의 최종의사결정자인 최고경영진이 조직의 미션과 일치되지 않는 행동을 보이는 경영진 괴리현상을 인지할 경우, 윤리적 리더십의 긍정적인 효과가 방해를 받거나 상쇄될 가능성이 있다. 또한 팀원들 자신의 행동이 조직의 미션과 일치되지 않는 개인 괴리현상을 인지할 경우에도 윤리적 리더십의 효과는 감소될 수 있다는 점에서 윤리적 리더십과 괴리현상의 상호작용효과를 분석하는 것은 중요하다. 은행, 반도체회사, 대학병원에 종사하고 있는 922명의 종업원 데이터를 분석한 결과, 팀장의 윤리적 리더십은 팀원들의 역할 내 행동과 긍정심리자본에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 경영진 괴리현상의 조절효과가 검증됨으로써 조직의 미션과 다르게 행동하는 경영진 괴리현상이 윤리적 리더십의 긍정적인 효과를 감소시키는 것으로 나타났다. 이와 같은 연구결과를 바탕으로 윤리적 리더십과 경영진 괴리현상이 조직의 실무자에게 주는 함의점에 대해 논의하였다.

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