보육교사가 지각한 원장의 서번트 리더십과 보육교사의 심리적 임파워먼트가 직무열의에 미치는 영향

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the structural relationship by exploring whether supervisor’s servant leadership mediates the relationship between childcare center teachers’ psychological empowerment and work engagement. Participants conducted a self-report questionnaire survey on 243 teachers working at daycare centers in Daegu and Gyeongbuk area.BR The collected data were analyzed by Pearson Correlation, Structural Equation Modeling(SEM), Bootstrapping, using of SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 20.0.BR The results of this study were as follows. First, the supervisor’s servant leadership had a positive effect on the work engagement of childcare teachers. Second, the psychological empowerment of childcare teachers had a positive effect on the work engagement of childcare teachers. Third, the supervisor’s servant leadership had a positive effect on the psychological empowerment of childcare teachers. Fourth, the supervisor’s servant leadership indirectly influenced work engagement through the psychological empowerment of childcare teachers.BR The fact that the supervisor’s servant leadership affects the childcare teacher’s work engagement through the childcare teacher’s psychological empowerment suggests that the supervisor’s servant leadership is a meaningful environmental factor in building the childcare teacher’s psychological empowerment.