임파워링 리더십이 조직구성원의 혁신행동에 미치는 영향과 폐기학습의 매개효과

초록

More and more companies are putting every effort on developing employees’ innovative behavior since it is considered to be one of the critical factors for success in this fast changing competitive market. From this perspective, this study aims to examine the effect of empowering leadership on employees’ innovative behavior and especially the mediating effect of unlearning between the variables. 317 employees from small-to-medium size companies participated in questionnaire survey and SPSS 19.0 program was used for statistical analysis of the data. Following is the result of the study. Empowering leadership showed a positive relationship with innovative behavior and unlearning, suggesting that when upper management exercises higher levels of empowering leadership, employees will display higher levels of innovative behavior and increase their level of unlearning. Secondly, unlearning had an mediating influence between empowering leadership and innovation behaviors, implying that empowering leadership not only directly influences innovation behavior, but also indirectly impacts innovation behavior through unlearning. In order for to enhance innovative behaviors, leaders should empower employees to unlearn their habitual way of thinking and working behavior which will ultimately bring innovation in the company.

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