A Study on the Effect of Director's Authentic Leadership on Early Childhood Teacher's Professionalism: Centered on Mediating Effect of Organizational Culture of Early Childhood Educational Institute

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between variables affecting the early childhood teacher's professionalism after setting the director's authentic leadership as an independent variable, the organizational culture of early childhood educational institute as a mediating variable, and the early childhood teacher's professionalism as dependent variable, considering that the director's authentic leadership was a motivational factor affecting the organizational culture of early childhood educational institute. The research questions established to achieve such research objective are as follows. First, what is the relationship among the director's authentic leadership, organizational culture of early childhood educational institute, and early childhood teacher's professionalism? Second, do the director's authentic leadership and organizational culture of early childhood educational institute affect the early childhood teacher's professionalism? Third, does the director's authentic leadership affect the early childhood teacher's professionalism through a medium of organizational culture of early childhood educational institute? The research object in this study was final 225 early childhood teachers except the unreliable respondents out of 250 teachers who worked in 'D' city. From the result of this research above, it may be summed up as follows. First, this study has shown that it had statistically significant positive relationship among the director's authentic leadership, organizational culture of early childhood educational institute, and early childhood teacher's professionalism. Second, the internalized moral viewpoint, relational transparency, and balanced processing of information among the subfields of director's authentic leadership had positively significant direct effect on the early childhood teacher's professionalism. In addition, the rational culture, relationship culture, hierarchy culture among the subfields of organizational culture of early childhood educational institute had positively significant direct effect on the early childhood teacher's professionalism. Third, the director's authentic leadership affected the early childhood teacher's professionalism, mediated by the organizational culture of early childhood educational institute. This researcher considers it as the director's authentic leadership and organizational culture of early childhood educational institute were the related variables that affected the early childhood teacher's professionalism.