본 연구의 목적은 공무원의 임파워먼트를 개인차원의 임파워먼트와 집단차원의 임파워먼트, 그리고 공무원의 창의성을 개인차원의 창의성과 집단차원의 창의성으로 분류 관계검증을 하는데 있다. 자치단체장의 변혁적 리더십과 임파워먼트 및 창의성의 관계를 검증한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 변혁적 리더십과 임파워먼트와의 관계를 알아보기 위하여 “변혁적 리더십은 임파워먼트에 영향을 미칠 것이다”라는 명제를 검증하였다. 검증결과 개인차원의 임파워먼트에 영향을 미치는 변혁적 리더십 요인은 카리스마 요인과 지적 자극 요인이었으며, 모두 긍정적인(+) 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 지적 자극 요인이 가장 큰 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었으며, 카리스마 요인 또한 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었다. 반면에 개별적 배려 요인과 분발 고취 요인은 개인차원의 임파워먼트에 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 집단차원의 임파워먼트에 영향을 미치는 변혁적 리더십 요인은 지적 자극 요인과 분발 고취요인이었으며, 모두 긍정적인(+) 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 지적 자극 요인이 가장 큰 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었으며, 분발 고취 요인 또한 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었다. 반면에 카리스마 요인과 개별적 배려 요인은 집단차원의 임파워먼트에 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 분석되었다. 둘째, 변혁적 리더십과 창의성과의 관계를 알아보기 위하여 “변혁적 리더십은 창의성에 영향을 미칠 것이다”라는 명제를 검증하였다. 검증결과 개인차원의 창의성에 영향을 미치는 변혁적 리더십 요인은 개별적 배려 요인과 분발고취 요인으로 분석되었으며, 모두 긍정적인(+) 영향을 미치는 것을 분석되었다. 개별적 배려 요인이 가장 큰 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었으며, 분발 고취 요인 또한 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었다. 반면에 카리스마 요인과 지적 자극 요인은 개인차원의 창의성에 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 분석되었다. 또한 집단차원의 창의성에 영향을 미치는 변혁적 리더십 요인은 카리스마 요인, 개별적 배려 요인, 그리고 분발 고취 요인으로 분석되었으며, 모두 긍정적인(+) 영향을 미치는 것으로 분석되었다. 분발 고취 요인이 가장 큰 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었으며, 다음으로 개별적 배려 요인과 카리스마 요인의 순으로 영향을 주는 것으로 분석되었다. 반면에 지적 자극 요인은 집단차원의 창의성에 영향을 주지 않는 것으로 나타났다.
Modern organizations are required to implement organizational development and renovation in order to become competitive ones, and then to survive and adapt themselves to uncertainties and rapidly changing social environment. In addition, members of organizations are required to change as well, because they are the most important assets that constitute organizations and contribute to the development of organizations. As the concept of competitive advantage with empowerment and creativity of organizational members among increased uncertainties has been defined, the importance of human resources has been emphasized. In other words, The importance of leadership exercised by an organization"s leader and empowerment and creativity of its members is rising. Studies have been actively progressing about transformational leadership, which has influence on empowerment and creativity. That is because transformational leadership presents vision in order for members of an organization to have hopes and dreams, and exercises influence to achieve enhanced performance of an organization and satisfy individual desires by inducing members to change their sense of values through individual consideration and intellectual stimulation. The purpose of this thesis is to examine the influence of the transformational leadership of a city mayor on empowerment and creativity of its members. Through such an examination, the transformational leadership, which has a positive effect on empowerment and creativity of an organization for its development, will be recognized. The extent of this thesis is limited to transformational leadership, and empowerment and creativity. Transformational leadership was chosen as an independent variable and empowerment and creativity were selected as dependent variable. Four factors such as charisma, individual consideration, intellectual stimulation and inspiration were selected as sub-factors of transformational leadership. Self-empowerment and group-empowerment were selected as sub-factors of empowerment. Four factors including meaning, competence, self-determination and impact were selected as major elements of self-empowerment in accordance with a definition of empowerment, later used by Spreitzer(1995), while such four factors as team potency, team meaningfulness, team autonomy and team impact were selected as main elements of group-empowerment based on the theory of Kirkman & Rosen(1999). Self-creativity and group-creativity were selected as sub-factors of creativity. Three factors including originality, fluency and flexibility were selected as prime elements of self-creativity based on a theory of Guilford(1984). A group"s idea-inducing capability and problem solving ability were selected as important elements of group-creativity on the basis of a theory of Siegel & Kaemmerer(1978). Considering the limitation associated with a methodology for the study, the object of the study for achieving its purpose was restricted to 1,000 civil servants of grade 5 and lower working in three cities in Chungcheongbuk-do out of the nation"s 234 basic local governments. 739 among the object of 1,000 civil servants answered to the questionnaire and 707 questionnaires were analyzed after excluding unreliable ones drawn up by unfaithful respondents. The result of examining relationships between a city mayor and empowerment and creativity of its members is as follows: First, factors of transformational leadership which exert a positive effect on self-empowerment were identified as charisma and intellectual stimulation. Second, factors of transformational leadership which exert a positive effect on group-empowerment were identified as intellectual stimulation and inspiration. Third, factors of transformational leadership which exert a positive effect on self-creativity were identified as individual consideration and inspiration. Fourth, factors of transformational leadership which exert a positive effect on group-creativity were identified as charisma, individual consideration and inspiration. Results of the above-mentioned analysis have shown that transformational leadership of local governments" heads positively affect empowerment and creativity of their members. Therefore, it is necessary to improve transformational leadership of a city mayor in order to promote empowerment and creativity of its members as part of enhancing competitiveness of a local government. The study has revealed that four factors of transformational leadership of three cities in Chungcheongbuk-do scored as follows - intellectual stimulation: 3.3156points, charisma: 3.2871points, and individual consideration: 3.11points. In short, scores made by transformational leadership of three city mayors was analyzed to exceed average score of 3 points but falls short of meeting expectation. This means that heads of local governments need to exert more effort to improve transformational leadership. The thesis has some limitations. First, the object of the study was limited to just three cities in Chungcheongbuk-do. Second, as the study has only focused on whether or not transformational leadership of a city mayor influence empowerment and creativity of organizational members, research concerning the ways to enhance transformational leadership of a city mayor was not included in this thesis. Third, even though the study confined the object of transformational leadership to head of a local government, chief executive officer, it is mostly likely that transformational leadership of middle managers affect empowerment and creativity of an organization"s members as well. I hope studies that will deal with this subject in the future will rectify these limitations.