Kunja’s Leadership Concept and Scale Development

This article aims to introduce the concept of Kunja’s leadership, considered as an ideal leader in Confucian societies over 2500 years, and to develop a questionnaire to measure it. We defined Kunja’s leadership as an influencing process that a leader motivates his/her subordinates to agree to and cooperate fully in reaching high level goals of an organization not by his/her position power but by subordinates' belief that the leader practices unifying people, following right path, maintaining balance, optimizing process, and abiding by sincerity. From the content analysis of the Four Books- Analects, Mencius, Doctrine of Mean, and Great Learning, we analyze Kunja’s leadership with Wuchan’s Five Constants: Humanity (仁), Righteousness (義), Courtesy (禮), Wisdom (智) and Trust (信). To measure the Five Constants, we extracted ten traits items and 31 behavioral items on the bases of the Four Books. Analysis of survey data, collected from 154 Koreans, shows that Kunja’s leadership consists of the Five Constants that have convergent and discriminant validity. Futhermore, the analysis indicates that Kunja's leadership consists of virtual traits and behaviors based on the Five Constants and both have high correlation.

keywords: Kunja, leadership, Four Books, Five Constants- Humanity (仁), Righteousness (義), Courtesy (禮), Wisdom (智) and Trust (信), Kunja, leadership, Four Books, Five Constants- Humanity (仁), Righteousness (義), Courtesy (禮), Wisdom (智) and Trust (信), 군자(君子), 리더십, 사서(四書), 오상(五相)-인의예지신(仁義禮智信)

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Kunja’s Leadership Concept and Scale Development

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Korean Journal of Psychology: General