본 연구는 무한 경쟁사회에서 효과적 교육 경영 리더십 요인을 밝히고자 교육행정 조직을 대상으로 연구를 실행하였다. 실증 연구 내용은 이슈리더십이 임파워먼트와 조직 성과에 미치는 영향, 이슈리더십이 조직 성과에 영향을 미치는데 있어서 임파워먼트의 매개역할 그리고, 직종에 따른 조절효과에 대하여 가설을 설정하고 검증하였으며 그 결과를 요약하면 다음과 같다. 첫째, 이슈리더십은 임파워먼트의 4 차원인 의미성, 자기결정성, 역량, 영향력을 증대시키는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 이슈리더십은 직무만족, 혁신적 행동, 조직몰입 등에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 셋째, 이슈리더십이 조직 성과에 영향을 미치는 과정에서 임파워먼트가 부분 매개 역할을 하는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 이슈 창안과 자기결정성, 오디언스 동참과 자기결정성, 시스템 파워와 직무만족, 시스템 파워와 혁신행동 사이에 직종에 따라 조절 효과가 있는 것으로 나타났다. 이러한 결과는 교육행정 혁신을 위하여 경영자들이 지향해야 할 새로운 리더십으로서 이슈리더십의 유효성과 적용 가능성을 시사하고 있다.
In today`s fast changing educational environment, educational administrative organization also requires to adopt the entrepreneurship to improve its organizational performance. In response to such demand, we study an educational administrative organization to provide an insight to improve the competitiveness of education administration system by exploring leadership mechanism which could promote effective educational leadership highly demanded in today`s unlimited competitive society. Specifically, we establish hypotheses for leadership study in an educational administrative organization and test them to explore how issue leadership influences empowerment and organizational performance. Further, we examine whether empowerment meditates the relationship between issue leadership and organizational performance and whether job difference in educational administrative organization moderates such relationship. The summary of study results is as follows: First, issue leadership recognized by the members of an educational administrative organization increases the sub-components of empowerment such as meaning, self-determination, competence, and impact, which in turn, lead positive impact on job satisfaction, innovative behavior, and organizational commitment. Second, empowerment partially mediates the relationship between issue leadership and organizational performance. In the process that issue leadership affects the organizational performance such as job satisfaction, innovative behavior, and organizational commitment, empowerment does play a role as a mediator. Third, examining whether job difference in educational administrative organization moderates the relationship between issue leadership and organizational performance, we find partial moderation effect. Specifically, we find the moderating effect between Issue Pull and self-determination, Audience Push and self-determination, System Power and job satisfaction, and system power and innovative behavior.