The purposes of this study were to investigate the effects of job satisfaction on
organizational citizenship behavior among low-ranking military leaders and test the
mediating effects of empowerment between them. For those purposes, the investigator
devised a questionnaire based on researches on the organizational citizenship behavior of
professional soldiers after permission from the Ministry of National Defense, distributed
it to low-ranking military leaders from June 20 to August 30, 2015, and analyzed total
221 questionnaires with SPSS 21.0 and AMOS 21.0. The analysis methods employed in
the study include descriptive statistics, independent-sample t-test, and multiple regression
analysis. The major findings were as follows: first, job satisfaction had statistical
significance for empowerment among low-ranking military leaders, which means that the
higher their job satisfaction level was, the more empowerment they had. Secondly,
empowerment had statistical significance for organizational citizenship behavior among
them, which is interpreted in the way that the higher their empowerment was, the more
organizational citizenship behavior they engaged in. Finally, the study tested the research
model and found that their job satisfaction had significant effects on their organizational
citizenship behavior and that empowerment, a mediating variable, had partial mediating
effects. Based on those findings, the study offered implications for the promotion of job
satisfaction, empowerment, and organizational citizenship behavior among low-ranking
military leaders.