Effects of Sports Center Employees’ Self-Leadership on Organizational Commitment: Mediating Effects of Leader-Member Exchange

Won-ho Son, Woo-yeul Baek () and Kevin K. Byon
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Won-ho Son: Department of Physical Activity & Human Movement Science, Dankook University, Yongin 31116, Korea
Woo-yeul Baek: Department of Sport Management, Kyonggi University, Suwon 16227, Korea
Kevin K. Byon: Department of Kinesiology, Indiana University–Bloomington, Bloomington, IN 47405, USA

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 18, 1-12

Abstract: Considering that the role of leadership is still essential for a corporate organization to grow and develop continuously, self-leadership based on a sense of ownership is emerging as the ideal leadership required of organizational members. However, despite the great efforts of academia in investigating the effectiveness of self-leadership in various industrial fields, prior literature on self-leadership in the context of sports center organizations seems to be limited. The objective of the present study was to examine the influence of sports center employees’ self-leadership on leader-member exchange (LMX) and organizational commitment and the mediation role of LMX in the relationship between self-leadership and organizational commitment. A total of 172 Korean sports center employees participated in the present study. The results indicated that sports center employees’ self-leadership significantly impacted LMX and organizational commitment, and LMX positively affected organizational commitment. Additionally, sports center employees’ LMX had an important partial mediation role in the relationship between self-leadership and organizational commitment. Consequently, the current study’s findings provide sports center organizations with practical implications for enhancing organizational effectiveness.

Keywords: self-leadership; leader-member exchange; organizational commitment; sports center employee (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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