• Journal of Korean Dental Hygiene Science
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• v.6 no.2
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• pp.37-50
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• 2023

Background: The purpose of this study is to verify the impact of dental hygienists' working environment on organizational commitment and the mediating effect of psychological empowerment in the relationship between working environment and organizational commitment. Methods: A survey was conducted on 264 people working as dental hygienists between August 16 and August 23, 2023. The collected data were analyzed using t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis, and regression analysis. Results: In the dental hygienist work environment, all three subfactors (safety management system, manager's competency, and support system) had a significant positive(+) correlation between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment. Dental hygienists' work environment was found to have an effect on organizational commitment, and psychological empowerment was found to have a partial mediating effect in the relationship between work environment and organizational commitment. Conclusion: As a way to improve dental hygienists' organizational commitment, it is necessary to develop a strategic human resource management program to create a safe and positive work environment and to form an organizational culture in which managers can recognize the power of members and grant empowerment.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.10
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• pp.367-376
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to identify the impact of empowerment on achievement in the team based learning by college nursing students and the mediation effects of co-regulation. A convenience sample of 243 subjects were recruited from one university in G city. And data were collected from May 23 to May 30, 2017. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, t-test, ANOVA, Pearson's Correlation, Multiple regression analyses with SPSS 21.0 Program. The psychological empowerment showed a significantly positive correlation of co-regulation and achievement, co-regulation showed a significantly positive correlation of achievement. The factors affecting the achievement were co-regulation, psychological empowerment, improvement on cooperation and modification, grade, and explanatory power was 57.2%. Co-regulation had a partial mediating effect in the relationship between shared psychological empowerment and Achievement. This study provided basic data for developing the nursing education program to improve achievement. and it is necessary to repeat the study including various variables related to achievement of the task in the future.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.23 no.2
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• pp.317-331
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to verify the relationship among servant leadership, empowerment and sports satisfaction of badminton coaches by self-leadership. Among national badminton players, total 343 copies of data were collected and used at the study by using of random sampling. The normal distribution on data and the validity and reliability for each factors were proven to confirm through descriptive statistics, exploratory & confirmatory factor analysis and reliability analysis with SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0 program. The relationship among each factors by the purpose of study were analyzed by correlation analysis and structural model analysis. The results were as follows. First, the servant leadership of badminton coaches had positive effect on empowerment. Second, the servant leadership of badminton coaches had positive effect on self-leadership. Third, the servant leadership of badminton coaches had positive effect on sports satisfaction. Fourth, empowerment had positive effect on sports satisfaction. Fifth, self-leadership had positive effect on sports satisfaction. Sixth, for the relationship between servant leadership and sports satisfaction, empowerment and self-leadership had indirect effects.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.320-329
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• 2012

The study originated in finding the way to improve the job satisfaction and job involvement of care worker, who work in the Elderly Care Facilities, by researching and analysing the influences on the job satisfaction and job involvement of their self-efficacy and empowerment directly or indirectly. The result from the influences on empowerment of care worker self-efficacy was that the higher the self-confidence and self-control efficacy were, the higher the empowerment was. And the influence on job involvement of self-efficacy was that the higher the self-control efficacy and job preference were, the higher the job involvement was. The influence on job satisfaction of care worker was that the higher the self-confidence, self-control efficacy, and job preference were, the higher the job involvement was. The higher care worker individual empowerment and environmental empowerment were, the higher their job involvement and job satisfaction were. We can find out that there is a mediated effect as an influence on job involvement and job satisfaction of self-efficacy.

• Journal of Convergence for Information Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.361-366
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• 2018

In this study, 200 social workers in Seoul and Gyeonggi area were surveyed using convenience extraction method. Data were analyzed by frequency, reliability, correlation, and regression analysis using IBM SPSS Statistics 20, and Sobel test was performed. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of empowerment on the relationship between exhaustion and organizational effectiveness of social workers and to provide basic data for improving organizational effectiveness. The results of the study are as follows. Empowerment was found to be mediated in the relationship between exhaustion and job satisfaction, which is a sub - area of organizational effectiveness. Empowerment was found to be mediated in the relationship between exhaustion and turnover intention, which is a sub - domain of organizational effectiveness. Therefore, it is necessary to have a resting place that gives a sense of security to the exhausted social worker rather than granting authority for the social welfare organization.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.3
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• pp.617-629
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• 2016

The purpose of this study was to evaluate effects of the confirmed of boss and the organizational effectiveness. For this, The mediating effect of psychological empowerment was verified. on the Influence of Organizational Effectiveness. the confirmed of boss (+)effected of the organizational effectivenes and verified the parameter part of psychological empowerment. Also The confirmed of boss (+)effected of a Junior staff's the job satisfaction and the organizational commitment. This results suggest that for maximization the organizational effectiveness need the confirmed of boss and the delegation of authority. The delegation of authority from boss provide autonomy and creativeity to Junior staffs. This ways suggest that make them the job satisfaction and the organizational commitment.

• Korean Journal of Child Education & Care
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.1-20
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• 2018

Objective: The purpose of this study is to provide practical data to effectively implement day care that respects the rights of infants in day care centers by investigating the relationship between private day care center teachers' empowerment, job satisfaction, infant's right respect care, and examining the influence of empowerment and job satisfaction of private day care center teachers on Infant's right respect care. Methods: The 228 day care teachers who work in private daycare centers located in Seoul and Gyeonggi province were the investigated subjects. For the analysis of questionnaire, frequency, percentage, reliability, t-test, ANOVA, correlation, and regression were used as SPSSWIN 20.0 program. Results: First, the difference of empowerment according to the individual variables of teachers was different to career, monthly salary, marital status, and turnover intentions. The difference of job satisfaction according to personal variables showed difference to age, career, marital status, type of work organization, and number of teachers and classes. There was a difference in infant's right respect care to age and marital status. Second, in the relationship between empowerment and job satisfaction and between empowerment and infant's right respect care, there was a positive correlation. The relationship between job satisfaction and infant's right respect care showed there is a positive correlation between infant's right respect care and all other factors except for the pay and promotion factors of job satisfaction. Third, Expert extension, autonomy, fellow relationship and job self have a positive influence on infant's right respect care. Conclusion/Implications: This study suggests that specific efforts should be made at the daycare center to raise the level of expertise and autonomy of private daycare teachers and to give satisfaction to their fellow relationship and their job self factors to effectively implement infant's right respect care.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.9
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• pp.544-560
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• 2022

In order to verify the effect of job-esteem attitude on the empowerment of social service workers on service orientation, this study conducted a questionnaire survey on manpower providing local autonomous social service investment projects in Chungcheongbuk-do through analyzing 329 copies of data. The main research results show that, work performance relationship and personal work orientation have a significant effect on job esteem among the sub-factors of empowerment, it was found that the work environment control had a significant effect on all of the service-oriented sub-factors (trust-oriented, sincerity-oriented, and type-oriented). In addition, personal work-oriented empowerment was found to have a significant effect on sincerity-oriented and type-oriented among the service-oriented sub-factors, and it was confirmed that the empowerment of social service workers had a positive effect on service orientation through employee appreciation as a medium. It was confirmed that job-esteem, which is a mediator, affects sincerity and type orientation, which are sub-variables of service orientation. In order to improve the service orientation of social service workers, it is necessary to develop a manual for a clear understanding of their work and to provide continuous and practical maintenance education so workers can develop their own abilities.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.16 no.12
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• pp.33-39
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• 2018

Social enterprises are companies that provide jobs to the vulnerable and provide social services. However, sustainable management of social enterprises is very difficult in a rapidly changing market environment. Therefore, for the sustainable management of social enterprise, it is assumed that the duty efficiency of the members of the social enterprise is most important in the limited resource environment, and that the social entrepreneur can increase the efficiency of the work by giving delegation to the members. Therefore, this study investigates how social entrepreneurs influence on the job efficiency of members when giving psychological empowerment to members of social enterprise based on social entrepreneurship. When giving empowerment leadership to members, And it has a significant effect on job efficiency.

• Korean Journal of Social Welfare
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• v.62 no.2
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• pp.307-328
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• 2010

The main objective of this study is to examine a mediating effect of psychological empowerment on the relationship between top executives' servant leadership level perceived by social workers and OCB. The subjects of this study were 375 social workers at 67 social welfare organizations in Young-nam area. The three variables: top executives' servant leadership, psychological empowerment, and OCB were measured by self-report questionnaires. In addition, this study adopted structural equation model analysis to examine the relationships among the variables. Main results are as follows: First, top executives' servant leadership level perceived by social workers has positive effected on OCB and psychological empowerment. Second, psychological empowerment has positive effected on OCB. Finally, psychological empowerment on the relationship between top executives' servant leadership level perceived by social workers and OCB has played a partial mediating role. The results of this study suggest that administrators of social welfare organizations need to exert servant leadership to generate OCB of social welfare organizations.