Abstract

This study focused on leadership roles in reducing gender inequality among workers within organizations and promoting women's participation in society. The purpose of this study is to examine how female managers' authentic leadership is demonstrated in terms of organizational culture and to identify factors affecting job engagement that leads to continuous labor market participation. For the analysis, a total of 975 female managers above the manager level were targeted by using the 7th data of the female manager panel surveyed by the Korea Women's Policy Institute. As a research method, SPSS 23.0 and AMOS 21.0 were used to verify the relationship and effect between variables. The results of the study were first, that rational organizational culture had a positive (+) effect on female managers' job engagement, and irrational organizational culture had a negative (-) effect on job engagement. Second, it was found that rational organizational culture had a positive (+) effect on authentic leadership, and irrational organizational culture had no significant effect on genuine leadership. Third, authentic leadership was found to have a positive (+) effect on job engagement. Fourth, authentic leadership was found to partially mediate in the relationship between rational organizational culture and job engagement. This study is meaningful in that it is an integrated study that examines the organizational culture characteristics in which female managers demonstrate authentic leadership and at the same time examines the relationship between them and their influence on job engagement. In addition, it is significant in that it provided a practical basis for introducing a system for cultivating authentic leadership that can bring female managers' engagement for the job even in the irrational organizational culture of Korean companies and the need for managerial education.

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