학교장의 서번트 리더십이 교사의 일터영성과 조직성과에 미치는 영향

The purpose of this research is to empirically analyze the influence of principal’s servant leadership on workplace spirituality that teachers feel, teacher-student intimacy created through the interaction between teachers and students, and commitment to school organization, students and classes which represents the degree of teacher’s affection. To this end, a questionnaire survey is carried out by 409 teachers working in elementary, middle, and high schools along with those in Christian alternative schools in South Korea, which was analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation model. As results, first, it shows that the principal’s servant leadership has a statistically meaningful positive relationship on workplace spirituality. Second, the result shows that workplace spirituality has statistically meaningful positive relationship on both teacher-student intimacy and teacher’s commitment. Third, it shows that workplace spirituality plays a role as a full mediation factor in the relationship with principal’s servant leadership and teacher-student intimacy while it plays a role as a partial mediation factor in the relationship with teacher’s commitment. The significance of this research paper is that it is the first analysis on the workplace spirituality in school organizations. Based on the analysis, school organizations can suggest that workplace spirituality is an important value for teachers. The principals are required to have an interest in the enhancement of the teacher’s workplace spirituality and they should demonstrate servant leadership in order to do so.