The Impact of Inclusive Leadership and Autocratic Leadership on Employees’ Job Satisfaction and Commitment in Sport Organizations: The Mediating Role of Organizational Trust and The Moderating Role of Sport Involvement

Jihyeon Oh, Dae Hee Kim and Daehwan Kim ()
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Jihyeon Oh: Department of Marine Sports, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea
Dae Hee Kim: Department of Marine Sports, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea
Daehwan Kim: Department of Marine Sports, Pukyong National University, Busan 48513, Republic of Korea

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 4, 1-13

Abstract: Leadership and organizational trust have become increasingly important in sport organizations. This study investigated the separate effects of inclusive leadership and autocratic leadership on organizational trust and the moderating role of sport involvement in these relationships. A total of 250 sport organization employees participated in the survey. This study conducted confirmatory factor analysis and latent moderated structural equation modeling (LMS) to test the research hypotheses. We found that while inclusive leadership was positively related to organizational trust, autocratic leadership was negatively related to organizational trust. Organizational trust positively influenced employees’ job satisfaction and organizational commitment. The findings also confirmed that sport involvement moderated the relationship between inclusive leadership and organizational trust. Furthermore, sport involvement had a marginally significant moderating effect on the relationship between autocratic leadership and organizational trust. The results of this study provide meaningful insight into sport organizations.

Keywords: inclusive leadership; autocratic leadership; trust; job satisfaction; job commitment; sport involvement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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