This study was intended to examine an effect that the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization had on members' job performance, followership and job engagement, and also was intended to test whether followership and job eng...
This study was intended to examine an effect that the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization had on members' job performance, followership and job engagement, and also was intended to test whether followership and job engagement had an mediating effect on the relation between servant leadership and job performance. Through this, it was intended to get a person in charge of education on the level of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization and sales leaders to recognize the necessity of servant leadership and the importance of followership and job engagement, and was intended to provide implications for the development of organization management and education program.
Research questions for this are as follows. First, does the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization have an effect on members' job performance? Second, does the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization have an effect on members' followership? Third, does the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization have an effect on members' job engagement? Fourth, does followership and job engagement in door-to-door saleswomen organization have an effect on members' job performance? Fifth, does the followership and job engagement of members of door-to-door saleswomen organization play a role in mediating the relation between leader's servant leadership and members' job performance?
In order to empirically test these research questions, Korean door-to-door saleswomen organization was surveyed. And a total of 250 questionnaires were collected. Among these, insincerely answered 20 questionnaires were excluded, and 230 questionnaires were finally utilized for an analysis. A statistical analysis was made by using SPSS 18.0 and AMOS 18.0. And the results of analysis are as follows.
First, it was shown that the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization had a positive effect on members' job performance. Second, it was shown that the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization had a positive effect on members' followership. Third, it was shown that the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization had a positive effect on members' job engagement. Fourth, it was shown that followership in door-to-door saleswomen organization had a positive effect on job engagement. Fifth, it was shown that followership in door-to-door saleswomen organization had a positive effect on members' job performance. Sixth, it was shown that job engagement in door-to-door saleswomen organization had a positive effect on members' job performance.
Seventh, it was shown that followership had a mediating effect on the relation between the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization and members' job performance. Eighth, it was shown that job engagement had a mediating effect on the relation between the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization and members' job performance. Therefore, the study came to make a finding that the servant leadership of leader of door-to-door saleswomen organization had a positive effect on members' job performance, followership and job engagement.
This study implied that an education should be strategically given about factors which would improve leaders' servant leadership and promote members' followership and job engagement in order to boost members' job performance as mentioned above. It is thought that servant leadership needs to be exercised according to situation and object of leadership for more effective human resource management of women in door-to-door sales organization, and there is necessity for women leaders' effort to strengthen this leadership, the establishment of infrastructure from a institutional/educational/strategic viewpoint inside the organization which supports this, and unstinting support.
Finally, with regard to a suggestion for follow-up study, the study participants of this study are classified as door-to-door cosmetics saleswomen. So, if ages and human resources of different business categories are diversified, different results may be produced. Besides, if a study is carried out after being classified according to number of years of work experience, position and average annual income in consideration of demographic characteristics, a more systematic and detailed study can be made. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out a study after classifying more diverse demographic characteristics in the follow-up study.