INVESTIGATING THE EFFECT OF COACHING LEADERSHIP ON JOB AUTONOMY AND JOB COMMITMENT

Abstract

Coaching skills not only meet the needs of members of the organization, is placed on growth and achievement in building capacity of members. This paper empirically investigated the effect of coaching leadership in the education section. This study is to construct the sub-dimensions(direction,development, accountability) of coaching leadership, job autonomy and job commitment. To accomplish the purpose of this study, we conducted a questionnaire survey of 230working members of the school in Gyeongnam province and Pusan in Korea, and collected 223cases and verified the hypotheses through SPSS and AMOS analysis with final data of 205. As a result, coaching leadership that constructs sub-dimensions of direction, development, and accountabilityhas a positive effect on job autonomy and job commitment, respectively. Besides, job autonomy has a significantly positive effect on job commitment. Consequently, we proved that coaching leadership is an important factor to affect job autonomy of members and organization effectiveness. This study showed that direction element, development and accountability of a principal influence the teachers’ job attitude in schools. These results suggested that coaching is a new and effective leadership style that influences members of school's attitude or organization effectiveness. Therefore, it is meant to provide an implication that coaching leadership should be exercised to raise the job autonomy and commitment of employees.