This study was to examine the structural relationships among ethical leadership, LMX(Leader-Member-Exchange), job engagement, organization engagement, and innovation behavior. For these purposes, the author developed several hypotheses and collected data from 290 hotel employees. The data were analyzed using frequence, reliability, and confirmatory factor analysis, and SEM(structural equation modeling) with SPSS/WIN 18.0 and AMOS 20.0.
The findings can be summarized as follows: First, ethical leadership had a positive effect on LMX. Second, LMX influenced on job engagement, organization engagement, and innovation behavior. Third, job engagement had a positive effect on innovation behavior. Fourth, organization engagement had a statistically positive effect on innovation behavior. In the conclusion part, finally, these findings were discussed and then implications and limitations were provided.