A study on the relationship among Servant Leadership, Authentic Leadership, Perceived Organizational Support(POS), and Agile Culture using PLS-SEM: Mediating Effect of POS

Abstract

Our study intended to review the characteristics of Agile Culture, which has attracted significant attention as an organizational culture suitable to deal with the recent changes in the management environment of enterprises and to reveal the role and interrelationships of leaderships, Agile Culture, and Perceived Organizational Support (POS).First, through previous studies, leaderships that influence Agile Culture were viewed as Servant Leadership and Authentic Leadership, and POS as an organizational characteristic that media
tes the relationship between these two leaderships and Agile Culture. in addition, the sub-dimensions of Agile Culture were recognized as Empowerment, Continuous Learning, and Collective Intelligence. Based on these findings, a research model was developed to analyze the effect relationship among these variables. Our study was conducted mainly on the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation and its affiliated organizations in Korea and the SmartPLS 3.3.2 was used for statistical analysis of collected data.
Both Servant Leadership and Authentic Leadership had positive effect on POS and POS had statistically significant effect on Empowerment, Collective Intelligence and Continuous Learning, all sub-dimensions of Agile Culture. The mediating effect of POS in the relationship between leaderships and Agile Culture was tested and POS mediated the positive effect of Servant Leadership and Authentic Leadership on two of the sub-dimensions of Agile Culture: Collective Intelligence and Empowerment. The samples of this study were restricted to specific organization, limiting the generalization to all industries. The future studies should include various industries, and the scope of research needs to be expanded to additional factors affecting Agile Culture.