Employment Relations in South Korea: Evidence from Workplace Panel Surveys PDF
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Employment Relations in South Korea This page intentionally left blank Employment Relations in South Korea Evidence from Workplace Panel Surveys Edited by Kiu Sik Bae Korea Labor Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea © Korea Labor Institute 2014 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2014 978-1-137-42806-6 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. 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Contents List of Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xvi Notes on Contributors xvii Part I Introduction 1 About the Study 3 Kiu Sik Bae 2 Workplace and Worker Characteristics in Surveyed Workplaces 8 Ki-Min Kim 1 Introduction 8 2 Panel workplace composition and characteristics 9 3 Worker composition 13 4 Conclusion 23 Part II The Management of Employment Relations 3 Human Resource Management 27 Sang-Min Lee, Gyu-Chang Yu, and Se-Ri No 1 Introduction 27 2 HR management in general 28 3 Staffing (employment management) 34 4 Evaluation management 46 5 Conclusion 50 4 Wage Levels and the Management of Wages 53 Kye-Taik Oh 1 Introduction 53 2 The structure of wages 54 3 Profit-sharing programs 62 4 Severance pay and retirement pensions 66 5 Conclusion 68 5 Corporate Welfare and Maternity Protection Programs 71 Ka-Chung Boo 1 Introduction 71 v vi Contents 2 Nonstatutory employee benefits 73 3 Flexible benefits plans 83 4 Maternity protection programs 85 5 Conclusion 87 6 The Labor Market and Industrial Relations for Non-regular Workers 90 Jeong-Hyang Yoon 1 Introduction 90 2 Flexibility in personnel use 91 3 Issues in the management of non-regular workers 103 4 Conclusion 108 Part III Collective Industrial Relations 7 Analysis of the Functional Level of Labor Relations: Focusing on Wage and Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes 115 Yong-Jin Nho 1 Introduction 115 2 Structure and process of wage bargaining 116 3 Outcomes of wage bargaining 122 4 Labor disputes 127 5 Conclusion 131 8 Trade Unions and Industrial Relations 136 Sung-Hee Lee 1 Introduction 136 2 Status of trade unions 136 3 Union leadership 143 4 Union organizing activities 146 5 The characteristics of industrial relations 148 6 Conclusion 152 9 Employment Relations in Non-unionized Workplaces 155 Jung-Woo Kim 1 Introduction 155 2 State of labor-management councils (comparison of unionized and non-unionized workplaces) 156 3 Role and function of labor-management councils in non-unionized workplaces 159 Contents vii 4 Participation in management of labor-management councils in non-unionized workplaces 168 5 Conclusion 172 Part IV Work Organization 10 Education/Training and Skill Formation 177 Hong-Geun Chang 1 Introduction 177 2 Interest in skill levels and skill development 178 3 The state of education/training implementation 180 4 Education/training infrastructure 188 5 Summary and implications 191 11 Workplace Innovation and the Work Process 194 Seong-Jae Cho 1 Introduction 194 2 Overview of work organizations 195 3 Manufacturing industry characteristics 199 4 Management innovation programs within workplaces 201 5 Workplace innovation index 204 6 Conclusion 207 12 Long Working Hours 208 Kiu Sik Bae and Ki-Min Kim 1 Introduction 208 2 Implementation of the 40 hours working week 209 3 Overtime hours 213 4 Degree of long working hours 218 5 Shift work 221 6 Inclusive wage arrangements 224 7 Partial use of annual paid leave 226 8 Working time flexibility 229 9 Summary and conclusion 230 Part V Summary and Conclusion 13 Summary and Conclusion 237 Kiu Sik Bae 1 Stabilization and institutionalization of industrial relations at the enterprise level 238 viii Contents 2 Narrower regulatory scope through industrial relations 244 3 Further dualization of the employment system 246 4 Human resource management and the employment relationship 248 5 Changes in work organization 252 References 257 Index 263 List of Figures and Tables Figures 3.1 Trends of introducing merit-based pay and annual salary system at Korean firms 28 8.1 Trends in membership by the affiliated umbrella union 140 Tables 2.1 Characteristics of workplaces included in the panel 10 2.2 Ownership structure of private businesses by size 11 2.3 Financial performance, labor productivity, and quality of goods/products or services 1 2 2.4 Subjective scores for relative financial performance and actual revenue per worker 13 2.5 Subjective scores on relative turnover and the actual turnover rate 14 2.6 Changes in the number of total workers by year 15 2.7 Worker proportion by occupation 17 2.8 Proportion of women workers 18 2.9 Comparison of the proportion of managers out of all workers and the proportion of women managers out of managerial workers 19 2.10 Youth, senior, and disabled workers by workplace characteristic 20 2.11 Proportion of non-regular workers by workplace size, industry, sector, and unionization 22 3.1 Changes in strategic HR management 30 3.2 External networking activities of HR departments 31 3.3 Corporate HR policy directions 33 3.4 HR planning 35 3.5 Recruitment methods for new inexperienced and midcareer experienced workers 3 7 3.6 Hiring criteria for new employees and midcareer recruits 38 3.7 Method used to fill managerial positions 40 3.8 Internal job postings 42 3.9 Merit-based promotions 43 ix
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