• Asia-Pacific Journal of Business Venturing and Entrepreneurship
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• v.15 no.4
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• pp.217-230
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• 2020

In a view of rapidly changing business environment, the success and competing power of organizations depend on committed, highly motivated and satisfied human resources. Empowerment is mainly concerned with establishing and building trust between management and employees, and motivating their participation. Also, behavioral integrity emphasizing on the characteristics of effective leaders has shown as direct action that strengthens positive consequences in organizations. However, research regarding behavioral integrity is very limited. Based on the Self-determination Theory, this paper investigates the effect of empowering leadership on employee's job satisfaction and work engagement. Multi-group analysis based on behavioral integrity is also analyzed. An online survey was conducted and 298 employees' data were collected. Using structural equation modeling, results suggest as follows. First, empowering leadership had a positive effect on individual's job satisfaction mediated by their work engagement. Second, the result of the multi-group analysis showed that the effect of empowering leadership on work engagement is stronger in the group with high behavioral integrity. Contrary to the prediction, the result doesn't support the moderating effect on job satisfaction. These findings contribute to our understanding of empowering leadership process. Based on the results, several theoretical and managerial implications are discussed.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.209-220
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• 2017

Organizational environments are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic and interdependent. To overcome these environmental, the Organization pay attention to the Empowering Leadership. And Empowering leadership leads to OCB(Organizational Citizenship Behavior) of the organization's members. To the empirical analysis of the theoretical relationship, we was set up the research model based on the literature research method. We used total 346 questionnaires from the Manufacturing workers in Dea-gu and Kyung-buk region. The results of this study are as followings; First, Empoewering Leadership are positively related to OCBI and OCBO. Second, Self Leadership is positively related to OCBI and OCBO, and Trust is only positively related to OCBI. Third, the mediating effects of Self Leadership is a significant partial mediations effect on the relationship between Empowering Leadership and OCBI, OCBO. This result is contribute to the development of the research field leadership.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.19 no.5
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• pp.207-215
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• 2018

As the environment changes rapidly and the diversity of organizational members increases in the modern organization, interest is increasingly focused on empowering leadership that gives more authority and autonomy to the individual. In this study, we demonstrate an effective process for empowering leadership that was examined by focusing on the leader acceptance of organization members. For this purpose, 293 questionnaires were collected from employees working in corporations, and the mediating effects of individual leader acceptance on the relationship between empowering leadership and individual effectiveness (individual innovative behavior, individual performance) were verified. Hypothesis testing revealed that empowering leadership had a significant influence on both individual innovative behavior and individual performance. Second, in the relationship between empowering leadership and individual innovative behavior, individual leader acceptance was completely mediated. Third, in the relationship between empowering leadership and individual performance, individual leader acceptance was completely mediated. This study suggests that individual leader acceptance is important for empowering leadership effectiveness. In order for empowering leadership to be more effective, we propose that leaders make empowering behaviors according to the organization members' level of maturity and personal values.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.21 no.3
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• pp.463-477
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• 2021

In this study, we investigated the impact of empowering leadership on intrinsic motivation, job crafting, and job performance. The role of intrinsic motivation and job crafting in the relationship between empowering leadership and job performance was verified. Covariance structure analysis was conducted to verify the research hypothesis using questionnaire data collected from SME workers in Yangsan, Ulsan, and Gyeongju. The results were as follows. First, empowering leadership has a significant influence on intrinsic motivation, job crafting. Second, empowering leadership did not have a significant influence on job performance. Third, intrinsic motivation has a significant influence on job crafting but intrinsic motivation did not have a significant influence on job performance. Fourth, job crafting has a significant influence on job performance. Finally, intrinsic motivation plays a partial mediating role in the relationship between empowering leadership and job crafting. job crafting plays a full mediating role in the relationship between empowering leadership and job performance. The results of this study suggest that employees' intrinsic motivation and job crafting should be promoted through the leader's empowering leadership in order to improve job performance.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.85-99
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• 2014

The empowering leadership as perceived by the members of the organization have an influence on the psychological attitudes of them toward their jobs, and again these psychological attitudes might affect their Organizational culture type. Thus, this study tried to mediating effects of Organizational Culture on the relationships between Empowering-Leadership and Creativity and Job attitude. The results of this study are as followings; First, Empowering-leadership is positively related to Creativity, Organizational commitment and Job satisfaction. except leading by example & participative decision-making in organizational commitment of Job attitude. Second, the mediating effects of Organizational culture had a significant effects on part of relationships in each variable. Results indicated that managing Organizational culture is contributed to the member's attitude and organization performance so that the supervisor should make efforts to develop managing skill in their Organizational culture to fit their nature.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.103-117
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• 2020

The importance of empowering leadership has emerged, which inspires confidence and attachment to members' task capabilities through delegation of authority between leaders and members. The purpose of this study is to analyze the effect of empowering leadership on work engagement and job performance through self-efficacy and sense of belonging in construction companies. Hypothesis testing of 271 copies of the questionnaire from Busan, Ulsan and Gyeongnam areas was conducted using the structural equation model. First, in the order of information sharing and participatory decision-making, there was a significant positive effect on self-efficacy, whereas the lead and coaching factors were not significant. Second, it was shown that all 4 factors of empowering leadership had a significant positive effect on belonging. Third, the sense of self-efficacy and belonging had a significant positive effect on both work engagement and job performance.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.594-610
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• 2018

In this study, we examined the impact of empowering leadership on leader-member exchange(LMX), leader trust, and in-role behavior. The role of LMX and leader trust in the relationship between empowering leadership and in-role behavior was verified. We surveyed 289 small and medium enterprises in Yangsan, Ulsan and Gyeongju city. SPSS 18.0 was used for overall descriptive statistics and exploratory factor analysis. AMOS 18.0 was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis to confirm the validity of the research variables and to conduct a covariance structure analysis to verify the research hypothesis. The result of this study were as follows. First, empowering leadership has a significant effect on LMX, leader trust. Second, empowering leadership did not have a significant effect on in-role behavior. Third, LMX has a significant effect on leader trust and in-role behavior. Fourth, leader trust has a significant influence onin-role behavior. Finally, LMX and leader trust play a mediating role in the relationship between empowering leadership and in-role behavior. Based on the results of this study, it is suggested that the LMX and leader trust should be strengthened through the leader's empowering leadership in order to enhance the employee's in-role behavior.

• The Korean Journal of Coaching Psychology
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• v.7 no.3
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• pp.127-152
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• 2023

Employees' innovative behavior is crucial for organizations to maintain competitiveness and foster growth. Empowering leadership coaching styles, which delegate authority and responsibility to organizational members while respecting their autonomy, create opportunities for members to solve problems and present innovative ideas. Drawing on signal theory, this study aims to clarify the process through which political skill influences employees' work innovative behavior, mediated by empowering leadership. Additionally, we examine whether the leader's implicit followership prototype moderates the relationship between employees' political skills and empowering leadership. Survey data were collected in two rounds with a two-week lag from 180 employees in a manufacturing company in South Korea. The results revealed that political skill was related to empowering leadership and subsequent work innovative behavior. Furthermore, the leaders' implicit followership prototype strengthened the relationship between political skill and empowering leadership. This study provides meaningful theoretical and practical insights into empowering coaching styles.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.4
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• pp.95-106
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• 2012

The purpose of this paper is that analyze the influence of empowering leadership and constituent individual of organization's creativity and the moderating effect of leader-member exchange. For the verify the variables relationship, we perform the hierarchical regression analysis. As a result, empowering leadership positively effect creativity when appear the leader's leading by example, coaching, informing and showing concerning. And also, we are confirm the moderating effect LMX. To conclude, Empowering leadership influence positive and negative effect to creativity by the sense of the affect, the loyalty, the contribution, professional respect.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.11
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• pp.155-165
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• 2017

This study divides organizational citizenship behaviors into two dimensions, organizational and individual, in order to clarify the out-role behaviors of organizational members more specifically. In addition, we selected Empowering leadership as an input factor that can lead to organizational citizenship behavior and examined the mediating role of trust. To accomplish this purpose, the authors conducted a survey of employees in manufacturing companies in the Daegu-Gyeongbuk region and the hypothesis was verified through structural equations model. The results of the study are as follows. Empowering leadership has a significant positive impact on OCB-O and OCB-I. Also, Trust has been found to partial mediate effect the relationship between empowering leadership and OCB_O and OCB_I. The results of this study will be specific guidelines for inducing organizational citizenship behavior in organizations, and will further expand the scope of research into organizational citizenship behavior.