코칭리더십이 조직 구성원의 심리적 안전감과 혁신행동에 미치는 영향에 관한 연구

Abstract

To secure competitiveness by responding to the rapidly changing environment, innovative behavior of employees, the core agents of organizational innovation and performance creation, became more important than ever. In this study, coaching leadership as an effective leadership strategy and psychological safety as an emotional and psychological factor were noted for facilitating employees' innovative behavior. This study verified the effect of each sub-variable of coaching leadership on employees’ psychological safety and innovative behavior.
 As a result of this empirical analysis following the survey conducted on 358 employees, it was identified that the direction and relationship of coaching leadership showed a significant effect on the employees’ innovative behavior but development and feedback didn’t have a significant effect. The sub-variables of coaching leadership had positive effects on employees’ psychological safety in the order of relationship, feedback, development, and direction. Psychological safety had a positive effect on innovative behavior. There was a significant mediating effect of psychological safety between direction and relationship of coaching leadership and innovation behavior.
 This study identified the theoretical model by expanding the simple causal relationship study on the effect on employee’s innovative behavior from the two perspectives of coaching leadership by sub-factors and psychological safety. This study is meaningful, first in that the result highlighted the importance of coaching leadership execution and perceived psychological safety to improve corporate competitiveness. Secondly, this study provides theoretical and practical in-depth implications to enhance effectiveness of coaching leadership by identifying its detailed operating mechanism to facilitate innovative behavior, eventually reinforcing corporate competitiveness to create perfomance, to improve human resource quality, and to conduct innovation strategy. Based on this research findings, the limitations and future research directions were discussed.