• Korean Business Review
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• v.20 no.2
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• pp.29-45
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• 2007

In today's rapidly changing business environment, corporations need to have flexibility in order to survive. This was especially true of Korean firms that were affected by the policies of the International Monetary Fund(IMF) since 1997. IMF requirements became a catalyst that helped Korean firms design their HR practices more rational and efficient. Although these changes increased the firms flexibility and global competitiveness, they also brought some harmful effects. Job insecurity is one of the most serious problems in Korean firms and in the greater Korean society, As today's organizations no longer lifelong employment, individuals put stress on psychological satisfaction with the need to manage one's career and employability in the open labor market rather than rapid promotion or high compensation in a organizations. Theoretically and empirically, the topics of career choice and career development were extensively developed. On the other hand, the issue of career commitment received little attention. The purpose of this study is to examine the preceding factors career commitment among public officials in Korea.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.480-488
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to research the relationships among psychological capital, job attitude, and service climate of employees in hotel corporations. Psychological capital has been demonstrated to be important for performance at both individual and group levels of analyses. In addition psychological capital has been shown to provide additive value to more established measures of employee's positive job attitudes. To accomplish this study, it was determined that the analysis derived from a hypothesis and literature reviews and data collected from 295 employees in hotel corporations. The results of empirical analysis showed as follows. First, Psychological capital has a significant effect on job satisfaction. Second, Psychological capital has a significant effect on organizational commitment. Third, Service climate was also found to have moderating effect upon the relationship between psychological capital and job satisfaction. Based on these findings, the implications and limitations of the study were presented including some directions for future studies.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.9
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• pp.411-429
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• 2019

There are not many studies on job satisfaction among older workers living alone. This study examined the determinants of job satisfaction for older workers living alone, and the job satisfaction was analyzed by the demographic-social factors, the health-psychological factors, and labor factors regarding to sex and ages. Korean Labor and Income Panel Study(KLIPS, 18th) used in this study, and the subjects were 308 older worker living alone and over 55 years old. The determinants of job satisfaction for male respondents were happiness, organizational commitment, and duration of work. Howver, the determinants of job satisfaction for female respondents were age, happiness, organizational commitment, and levels of skill. Income, organizational commitment, employment stability, and duration of work were the determinants for 55-64 years old. Education, organizational commitment, and levels of skill were the determinants for 65-74 years old. Education and happiness were the determinants for 75 years old and over. Age, income, happiness, organizational commitment, employment stability, duration of work, and levels of skill were the determinants of job satisfaction for all respondents. Finally, this study proposed the policy and practical implications for improving of job satisfaction among older workers living alone.

• Journal of Distribution Science
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• v.6 no.1
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• pp.63-77
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• 2008

The source of a business competition is man and the core of a business success depends on people's ability, efforts and cooperation. Therefore, modern managers are making varied efforts to perform the ethical management for the organization immersion and job satisfaction of the employees. The managers of the financial agencies including the enterprises competing in the global market, face numerous ethical issues and problems. Considering the reality that financial institutions are actively asked to perform the responsibility and duties sincerely, the tasks how the head of financial agency will accept the social study of the level of ethics and change the level of recognition, and how he will settle it as the natural feature in the institution, become an important management target. In addition, it is necessary to figure out how the ethical management of the head of the financial agency will affect the organizational immersion of the employees. Based on the objective of this study, we attempted to confirm how the ethical management will of the head of the financial institution would affect the organizational immersion, the employees' mental result variables. Through this study, it became necessary for the directors of the financial institutions to search for the methods to improve the system of management and enhance the observance will of the business ethics so that they may not cause the disposition of the violation of the business ethics owing to the enforcement to achieve the target of the results of the business or the error recognition of the norm. Further, the heads of banks will have to set a management policy focused on the democratic management and the ethical justice based on the participating methods to induce the cooperative commitment of the stock company employees not to be shifted from the globalization and the competitive society.

• Journal of Korean Critical Care Nursing
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.13-23
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• 2019

Purpose : The purpose of this study was to determine whether appreciative inquiry (AI) is an effective intervention for increasing the positive psychological capital and organizational commitment of new nurses. Method : The study used a nonequivalent control group pretest-posttest design. The participants were 60 new nurses in a tertiary hospital in Seoul. The experimental group received 2 classes of AI education and in-unit AI activities. The control group received the existing education program. Results : There was no statistically significant difference in the positive psychological capital and organizational commitment between the experimental group and the control group over time. Satisfaction with the AI education scored 3.69, which was higher than the average. The reason why the experimental group members were satisfied with the program was that AI education helped them to adapt and the in-unit AI activities made staff more cooperative and the atmosphere of the unit more positive. Conclusion : When applying AI activities to new nurses to promote positive psychological capital and organizational commitment, it is necessary to provide a workshop in which the participants can fully concentrate on education and to extend the period of use to one year in order to maintain the effect of AI activities.

• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.6 no.6
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• pp.119-129
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to show how much career management systems of hospital affect the psychological states of hospital employees. The research was dealing the issues about hospital's career management systems which affect exhaustion, cynicism, and job engagement. We found that job rotation has a negative significant effect on exhaustion. In addition, job rotation also negatively influence cynicism. On the other hand, career education and training has a positive effect on job engagement. Career management support systems and evaluation of career development, however, do not have significant effect on dependent variables. Thus, effective career management systems for hospital organizations are job rotation and career education and training programs. Finally, based on the analyzed results, this study has provide useful information for hospital management to establish efficient and productive human resources-management systems in order to increase in job engagement and reduce exhaustion and cynicism of employees as well.

• Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
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• v.10
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• pp.27-43
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• 2002

The mediating role of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the relationship between each of five job characteristics and turnover intentions was examined. Using Baron and Kenny(1986)'s approach for examining mediation hypotheses, results: (1) revealed that job satisfaction was a mediator in task significance-turnover intentions and autonomy-turnover intentions; (2) revealed that organizational commitment was a mediator in task identity-turnover intentions, task significance-turnover intentions, and autonomy-turnover intentions. The implications of the present findings were discussed.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.2
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• pp.661-669
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• 2018

Major business journals have been annually announced '100 best companies to work for'. These companies have some characteristics having not only high organization performance but also various benefit programs such as job satisfaction, organization commitment, work-family balance and positive psychology. When people have job satisfaction, organization commitment, and happiness, it will increase the positive psychology of people. Therefore, in this study, we examined the moderating effect of work-family facilitation between occupational well-being and innovative behavior. For the empirical analysis, the survey was executed on employees of 11 companies in IT, Service, and Manufacturing business field. The analysis result is as follows. First, occupational well-being gives positive(+) influence on innovative behavior. Second, the control effect of work-family facilitation in the relationship between occupational well-being and innovative behavior was significant according to statistics. The conclusion states the implications and limitations of this study, and suggests directions on future studies.

• Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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• v.29 no.4
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• pp.262-272
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• 2020

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the degree of job demand, job resources, burnout, and the organizational commitment of administrative nurses based on the job demands-resources model. Further, it seeks to confirm the influencing factors affecting nurses' burnout and organizational commitment. Methods: The participants were 188 administrative nurses working at hospitals (one tertiary hospital and six general hospitals) located in D City. The collected data were analyzed with IBM SPSS Statistics 23.0 using frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, t-tests, ANOVA, Pearson's correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. Results: The influential factors of burnout were role conflict (β=.50), job demand (β=.18), job position (β=-.17, team leaders and above), and social support (β=-.15). The regression model had an explanatory power of 59%. The influential factors of organizational commitment were appropriate rewards (β=.59), job position (β=.15, team leader or above), working department (β=.14, referral center and health screening administration department), and social support (β=.18). The regression model had an explanatory power of 59.5%. Conclusion: The results support the job demands-resources model, and interventions should be developed to decrease job demand and provide sufficient job resources.

• Korean Journal of Culture and Social Issue
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.527-556
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• 2017

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of group success on organizational commitment in organizational situations. It also aimed to investigate the dynamics in the relevance of motivational attitudes to the individual and group level variables(collective efficacy, group cohesiveness). This study used a multi-level model and tested a series of hypotheses through meso-mediation procedure. The results from 613 naval officials in 36 groups provided evidence that; (1) collective efficacy mediated the relationship between group success and group cohesiveness, (2) the cross-level main effects of group success and collective efficacy were shown on vocationa[l self-efficacy, (3) group cohesiveness exerted positive influence on organizational commitment and (4) the meso-mediation effects among the variables at the multi-level were revealed. It was found that the degree of work motivation and motivational attitudes depended on the group's contextual factors, and that each group's shared perceptions on group performance outcomes could be an important motivational source and cornerstone leading to group cohesiveness. The implications and limitations of these study as well as the direction for future study were discussed.