The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of mentoring function, organizational commitment, and psychological empowerment of university administrators, and to examine the mediating effect and moderating effect of the relationship between ...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the level of mentoring function, organizational commitment, and psychological empowerment of university administrators, and to examine the mediating effect and moderating effect of the relationship between mentoring function, psychological empowerment, and organizational commitment, respectively. Based on previous studies, this research hypothesis is based on 1. University administrative staff's psychological empowerment will mediate the relationship between mentoring function and organizational commitment. Hypothesis 2. The mentoring function of university administrators was set to moderate the relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment. A total of 203 data were analyzed using a web-based survey targeting administrative staff at A university in Korea, using frequency analysis, descriptive statistics analysis, Pearson moment-moment correlation analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis. As a result of the study, first, hypothesis 1, which established that psychological empowerment would mediate the relationship between mentoring function and organizational commitment, was adopted. Second, hypothesis 2, which established that the mentoring function would regulate the relationship between psychological empowerment and organizational commitment, was rejected. Conclusions and suggestions confirmed that the mentoring function of university administrators can affect organizational commitment in that it induces a sense of belonging to the organization, reduces the uncertainty of one's role, and helps to form the meaning. Therefore, it is necessary to operate counseling and training programs to enhance the psychological empowerment of university administrators within the organization.