The Influence of Organizational Culture Types on Job Engagement of organizational members : Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Positive Psychological Capital

The purpose of this study was to examine the moderating effect of positive psychological capital to analyze that emotional labor strategy(surface acting, deep acting) impacts on the job burnout and job engagement using samples of 314 salesperson in distribution services. The results were as follows. First, the surface acting of emotional labor strategies was increased job burnout, but deep acting decreased job burnout and increased job engagement. Second, positive psychological capital had negative effect on job burnout and positive effect on job engagement. Third, positive psychological capital had moderating effect between deep acting and job engagement. But, in contrast to the job engagement, job burnout had not effect on the moderation of positive psychological capital. That is, positive psychological capital was not a buffering effect between deep acting and job burnout, but worked as facilitator in a relationship between deep acting and job engagement. Finally, the implications and limitations of the present study as well as the future directions of this area were discussed.

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The effect of authentic leadership on job engagement

The Korean Journal of Industrial and Organizational Psychology ◽

10.24230/kjiop.v30i1.25-47 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 30 (1) ◽

pp. 25-47

Author(s):

YoungJu Choi ◽

Jinkook Tak

Keyword(s):

Procedural Justice ◽

Authentic Leadership ◽

Psychological Capital ◽

Power Distance ◽

Strong Support ◽

Moderating Effect ◽

Future Research ◽

Job Engagement ◽

Positive Psychological Capital ◽

The Relationship

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among authentic leadership, job engagement, and procedural justice. Specifically, this study investigated the influence of authentic leadership on procedural justice and job engagement that was partially mediated by procedural justice. In addition, this study examined moderating effect of positive psychological capital on the relationship between authentic leadership and procedural justice and the effect of power distance on the relationship between procedural justice and job engagement. Data were collected from 300 Korean employees who were working in various organization via online survey, and 286 data were used for analysis, eliminating unreliable responses. The findings are as follows: First, there were positive relationships among authentic leadership, job engagement, and procedural justice. Second, the results of structural equaition analysis showed strong support for the proposed model, and the result of bootstrapping analysis supported that the effect of authentic leadership on job engagement is partially mediated by the procedural justice. Third, the results of hierarchial analysis showed that positive psychological capital moderated the relationship between authentic leadership and procedural justice, but there was no moderating effect of power distance on the relationship between procedural justice and job engagement. Finally, implications and limitations of this study with the direction for future research were discussed on the basis of the results.

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