The paper examines how ethical leadership and organizational identification contributed to explaining organizational commitment. In order to verify the relationships and mediating effect, data were collected from 256 individuals in employees working in small and medium-sized firms at Jinju, Changwon, Gimhae City to test theoretical model and its hypotheses. All data collected from the survey were analyzed using with SPSS 18.0. This study reports findings as follows: first, the relationship between the ethical leadership and the organizational identification is positively related. Second, there was also a positive correlation between the organizational identification and the organizational commitment. Third, the relationship between the ethical leadership and the organizational commitment is positively related. Finally, the organizational identification played as a partial mediator on the relationship between ethical leadership and organizational commitment. Based on these findings, the implications and the limitations of the study were presented including some directions for future studies.

Abstract
 1. 서론
 2. 이론적 배경 및 가설설정
  2.1 윤리적 리더십과 조직동일시
  2.2 조직동일시와 조직몰입
  2.3 윤리적 리더십과 조직몰입
  2.4 조직동일시의 매개작용
  2.5 연구모형
 3. 연구방법 및 분석결과
  3.1 표본 및 자료수집방법
  3.2 변수의 조작적 정의 및 측정
 4. 실증분석
  4.1 신뢰성 및 타당성 분석
  4.3 가설검증
 5. 토의 및 결론
 6. References
 저 자 소 개

• 황상규(한국국제대학교 경영학과) | Sang-Kyu Hwang Corresponding author