The Impact of Ethical Leadership on Foreign Workers' Turnover Intentions: Focusing on The Mediating Effect of Job Satisfaction

This study attempts to investigate how ethical leadership affects foreign workers' turnover intention by categorizing job satisfaction into job self-satisfaction, salary satisfaction, and supervisory satisfaction, and to provide implications for human resource management of foreign workers. The results of the empirical analysis confirmed that among the 10 hypotheses, ethical leadership has a significant effect on foreign workers' turnover intention. It was also found to be significantly related to satisfaction with the job itself, satisfaction with salary, and satisfaction with supervision. Among job satisfaction, satisfaction with salary and satisfaction with supervision were found to have a significant effect on foreign workers' turnover intentions, while satisfaction with the job itself did not have a significant effect on turnover intentions. Moderating and mediating effects analyses were conducted to further explore the relationship between the variables, and among the three variables of job satisfaction, job itself and salary satisfaction were found to have no significant moderating and mediating effects on the relationship between ethical leadership and turnover intention, but satisfaction with supervisory supervision was found to have a significant effect on the strength or direction of the relationship between ethical leadership and turnover intention.