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A Study on the Effect of Employment Relationship Characteristics on Job Satisfaction: Focusing on the Moderating Effect of Job Autonomy  

Yang, SukWon (호서대학교 벤처경영학과)
Jung, ChanKoo (호서대학교 정보경영학과)
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Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems / v.26, no.2, 2021 , pp. 57-72 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study examines the effects of workers' employment relationship characteristics, such as employment security, reward fairness, co-worker's relationship, and participation opportunities, on job satisfaction, and the adjustment effect of job autonomy on the relationship between employment relation characteristics and job satisfaction, namely, adjustment It aims at empirical research on the degree and direction. As a result of empirical analysis, first, it was found that the sub-variables of employment relationship characteristics such as employment security, compensation fairness, co-worker's relationship, and participation opportunities all had a positive (+) significant effect on job satisfaction. Second, as a result of examining the effect of job autonomy on the effect of employment relationship characteristics on job satisfaction, it was found that job autonomy had a significant moderating effect on the effect of compensation fairness and participation opportunity on job satisfaction among the sub-variables. That is, it was found that job satisfaction increases as compensation fairness and participation opportunities increase, and job autonomy increases this influence.
Keywords
Employment relationship characteristics; Employment security; Compensation fairness; Co-worker's relationship; Participation opportunities; Job autonomy; Job satisfaction;
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