This study is the thesis to verify how operation of ethical management and trust of the leader affect the organizational commitment as the members of the company to accomplish the objectives. Therefore, as for basic model of this study, operation of e...
This study is the thesis to verify how operation of ethical management and trust of the leader affect the organizational commitment as the members of the company to accomplish the objectives. Therefore, as for basic model of this study, operation of ethical management becomes independent variable while organizational commitment becomes dependent variable, and any model, which trust of the leader will play the moderating role for these two variables, has been established. As for organizational commitment becomes dependent variable, this study tries to examine the relation between operation of ethical management and organizational commitment by taking any subjective evaluation to judge the qualitative aspect of the organization. Also, in case any analysis level is organizational level but not personal one, this study examines the relation between operation of ethical management and organizational commitment as demographic variables become the control variable because demographic variables can bestow very attentive impacts on the study result. Especially, this study has analyzed how operation of ethical management affects the organizational commitment as per trust of the leader. In this addition, this studyis executed that trust of the leader, namely calculus-based trust, knowledgebased trust, and identification-based trust, is regarded as moderating variable, also is regarded as directors or executives of the company to become the leader. It is noted that this study is the first trial in Korea. This study has been made for 5 companies executing ethical management and 3 companies not executing the one. Statistical analysis has been implemented by 323 questionnaires excluding 12 ones with insincerity among 1,000 questionnaires. Results of statistical analysis are as followings: Firstly, in case of Hypothesis-1 established to examine the factors affecting the organizational commitment, strong ① practical will of CEO,②ethic education/ training and coach, ③ induction of participation of the concerned parties are the significant factors affecting the organizational commitment. In the meanwhile, construction of ethical management system and evaluation/improvement of ethical management do not affect significantly the organizational commitment. This result shows that as for ethical management strong practical will of CEO is more important factor than any other factors in Korea. Namely, if CEO of the company expresses the strong will of ethical management and executes ethic education to the personnel, and induces the concerned parties for participation, it is judged that ethical management can be made in successful way. The fact that construction of ethical management and evaluation/improvement of ethical management do not affect significantly the organizational commitment shows that ethical management level in Korea is under the elementary step. Secondly, this research establishes Hypothesis-2 as trust of the leaderbestows any moderating effect between operation of ethical management and organizational commitment. This verification result shows that trust of the leader do not almost moderate between operation of ethical management and organizational commitment. ① It appears that the interaction factor of evaluation/improvement of ethical management and trust of the leader identically based on calculation shows any significant positive moderating effect between operation of ethical management and organizational commitment. ② It appears that the interaction factor of induction of participation of the concerned parties and trust of the leader identically based on identification shows any significant positive moderating effect between operation of ethical management and organizational commitment. Thirdly, this research examines Hypothesis-3 under the judgment that trust of the leader can affect significantly positive impact on organizational commitment. It is verified that calculus-based trust, knowledge-based trust, and identificationbased trust, which is the subordinate factors of trust, affect wholly significant positive impact on organizational commitment. The results clarified through this study can make the variables such as operation of ethical management and trust of the leader discovered in the studyof ethical management in future and such application can make abundantly the research for ethical management. Also this study indicates that trust of theleader of the company such as director, executive and etc. including CEO of the company attentively affects organizational commitment together with operation of ethical management. Last, the limitations of research and directions of future research are suggested.