Proper

Abstract

A series of studies have been conducted in terms of ineffective leadership, and many researchers pay attention to the personality variable of narcissism among leader characteristics. While it has been expected that leader narcissism would hinder the performance of an organization or a group, the research finding indicates that there are both positive and negative effects. This study examines contextual factors of an organization or a group in consideration of the fact that findings of existing studies have been inconsistent regarding the effect of leader narcissism. In other words, this study sets up the research model with job demand that is a group's task structure characteristic and need for leadership that is a personal particular as moderating variables of the effect of leader narcissism, and the hypothesis is verified accordingly.
Among 285 individuals in 50 teams, a survey was conducted to verify the hypothesis. As a result, it turned out that leader narcissism had significant effect on group performance, and that group members' need for leadership had systematic moderating effect on this relation. In contrast, the hypothesis regarding the moderating effect of job demand as a task characteristic of the group was not supported. Based on these findings, the theoretical implications of this study are presented along with its limitations and suggestions for future study.