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Abstract

An Empirical Study on the Effect of Leadership Style To Job Satisfaction and Organizational Commitment

by Yang, Dong-chi Advisor : Prof. Lee, Kang-Ok, Ph.D. Department of Business Administration Graduate School of Business Administration, Chosun University

The most crucial component of every organization being human, in order for the organizational objective to be attained, each organization will be dependent upon the individual's ability. Therefore, with uncertainty and complexity in radically changing modern society, to meet the individual desire for change at higher level a new flexible and proactive leadership style is needed. Another crucial business for the organization would be individual attitude toward his own organization. In recent years, the transformational leadership has gained a large amount of attention among the scholars. However, not many research of leadership, focusing on small and medium industries, has drawn much attention from them. It's because they concentrated mainly on large firms, government or public offices. This empirical study has made an analysis on the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment of transformational and transactional leadership among the subjects at small and medium-sized firms located in Kwang-Ju and South Jeolla province. The purpose of this study is to lay out an approach on the role of a leadership for the organizational objective, the impact of leadership on the relationship between leadership styles and organizational performance. Firstly, the analysis on the relationship between leadership styles and job satisfaction has shown that, for the individuals to feel job satisfaction in his workplace, the leader should have a strong conviction with his self-assuredness, faith, and moral fairness, granting each member confidence, stimulating them to achieve higher-level desire so as to have strong motivation for their lofty goals. In the meanwhile, if the leaders and team players are rewarded, the higher the level of their job satisfaction and performance will become. Secondly, this also had investigated the studies on leadership styles and organizational commitment and found that the modern organization members showed lower figures in organizational commitment, moral uprightness, and affective & emotional attachment. Also it was proposed that the transactional leadership styles find it hard to have the members committed to the organization. The arts of compromise, obedience and negotiation will be key elements for this leader. Therefore the leaders' creative and reformative ability will have each member to have autonomy and sense of independence, leading them to develop themselves open-minded. Thirdly, a good leader should know how to work on individual characteristics, for each individual may have different impact on the performance. It was discussed that he not only has to know how to handle their vision development encouraging them to better produce rationalized and creative perspective, but to decide if they need reward intervention in-between. In summary, it is proposed that the leaders should acknowledge the importance of leadership in managing job satisfaction and organizational commitment. In other words, a leader combines the knowledge of developing vision, encouraging the team players, treating them fairly and at times differently according to their performance. And in this study, which leadership model has stronger impact on job satisfaction and commitment in small and medium-sized firms had been discussed as well.