류성룡의 유연 리더십의 학문적 토대

Abstract

This study is a sequel to my former study, which defines Ryu Seong-ryong’s leadership as the leadership of flexibility. The findings were derived from historical sources showing his linguistic, behavioral, and policy orientation. This study aims to explore the academic base of Ryu Seong-ryong’s leadership of flexibility. In so doing we could understand in more detail about Ryu’s leadership pattern. We employ the categories of the humanities studies field and social science field in order to classify the Ryu Seong-ryong’s academic orientation. This study found that Ryu Seong-ryong’s academic orientation contributed to the formation of his leadership of flexibility in the sense that his study orientation is similar to his belief system and behavioral habits. This findings support the fact that his personality type was presumed as ISTP type in the MBTI test in the former study of mine. In the humanities studies field, this study assumes that Ryu learned the sense of empathy from the neo-Confucianism, and studied the self-transcendence spirit and the sense of equalitarianism of four classes of people from the Wang Yangming school. In the social science field, this study shows that Ryu studied extensively including the art of war, historical studies, legalism, and the Book of Change(주역). In this regard, this studies shows that the programs and contents of Ryu’s learning and self-cultivation contributed to his leadership of flexibility.