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A Study on the Effect of the Superiors' Leadership Type on Job Satisfaction of University Librarians (상사의 리더십 유형이 대학도서관 사서들의 직무만족에 미치는 영향)

  • 유길호;박정숙
    • Journal of Korean Library and Information Science Society
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.125-147
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    • 2002
  • The purpose of this study was to find out how the leadership of superiors at the university library - transformational and transactional leadership - could affect the job satisfaction of subordinates. For this purpose, verification was performed with the subject of 155 librarians working at 11 university libraries in Busan. The following are the results of this study. 1) There was positive correlation between the leadership type of superiors and the job satisfaction of subordinates. Transformational leadership turned out to have higher correlation with job satisfaction than transactional leadership. 2) Intellectual stimulation·inspiration affects promotion practices and supervision style. 3) When analyzing the controlling effect of individual characteristics, only gender and marital status are used as a controlling variables between transformational leadership and job satisfaction.

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The Effective Factors of Professional Learning : Study on Accounting Firms in Korea

  • Song, Youjung;Chang, Wonsup;Chang, Jihyun
    • The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.81-94
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    • 2018
  • The purpose of this study is to substantiate the affecting factors of informal learning outcomes for professions in various dimensions of an individual and organization. In specific, the study analyzed the effects of learning motivation, job characteristics, and a supportive learning environment which have on task-related knowledge acquisition, adapting to organization and understanding contexts, relationship formation, and improving self-development-ability. The participants of the study were 261 professionals working at four major accounting firms in South Korea. Multiple regression models were applied step by step for analysis. In this study, the informal learning of professionals working at four major accounting firms is influenced by various factors of learning motivation, job characteristics, and a supportive learning environment. The detailed analysis results were as follows. Firstly, peer-support showed the most positive effect on task-related knowledge acquisition. Secondly, for adapting to organization and understanding contexts, task autonomy showed the greatest effect. Thirdly, peer-support was found to be the most important factor for relationship formation. Fourthly, for improving self-development ability, learning goal orientation showed to be the most important factor. The various factors facilitated the professional learning by empirical identification. The study presented practical implications for creating an effective informal learning support environment.

A Meta-analysis of variables related to organizational commitment of social workers (사회복지사의 조직몰입과 관련된 변인에 관한 메타분석)

  • Lee, Jung-Gun
    • Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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    • v.21 no.11
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    • pp.455-464
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    • 2020
  • This study examined the correlation between the variables related to the organizational commitment of social workers. The research results are as follows. First, the overall effect size of the variable group had an intermediate effect size. Among the four organizational commitment-related variables, the job-related negative variable had the largest effect size. Next, the group of positive variables related to the organization, the group of positive variables related to the job, and the group of individuals related to the individual were in order. Second, among the individual-related variables, experience, gender, and education showed a small effect size, and other factors were close to the small effect size. In the group of positive variables related to organization, all variables except for transactional leadership and organizational fairness, which had a medium effect size, showed a large effect size. The job-related positive variables showed a large effect size only for job satisfaction, and customer orientation and job suitability were close to the large effect size. The turnover intention, which is a group of job-related negative variables, had a large effect size and job stress showed a medium effect size.

Life Attitude Patterns and Post-Retirement Adaptation among Men Retirees (남성 퇴직자의 생활태도 유형화 및 유형별 퇴직후 적응도)

  • 성미애;옥선화
    • Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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    • v.40 no.1
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    • pp.1-21
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    • 2002
  • The purposes of this study is to classify retiree's job, leisure, and family attitude; to identify the characteristics of each attitude types; and to examine the retirement adaptation level of each attitude type. The major findings of the study are as follows: First, four attitude types can be categorized: 'the job involved attitude type', 'the total positive attitude type', 'the leisure positive attitude type', and 'the total negative attitude type'. Second, the result of the discriminant analysis shows that 'the job-family experience before retirement and number of unmarried children' element was the most crucial in classifying the retiree's attitude. And 'the retirement reception and individual resource element' was in orders of discrimination power Third, 'the total positive attitude type' is the highest level of retirement adaptation.

A Model for Organizational Effectiveness in Nursing Unit (간호단위의 조직유효성 모형 구축;조직행동론적 관점에서)

  • Yoon, Sook-Hee
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.457-474
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    • 2002
  • Purpose : The purpose of this study was to construct the Organizational Effectiveness Model that explains and predicts the effectiveness of a nursing unit from the organizational-behavioral perspective. Furthermore, this study arms to develop a comprehensive organizational effectiveness model. Method : The subjects of this study consist of two groups: 455 nurses and 538 patients. Staff nurses who were employed and twenty patients from each ward in four university hospitals located in Seoul, Pusan and Kyungki were involved. Data were collected from October 4th to October 14th in 2000 by self-report questionnaire. Data were analyzed by the SAS for the general characteristics of the subjects, descriptive statistics, test for the reliability and correlations. Fitness of the hypothetical model were tested using Lisral 8.12(a) program. Result : With the findings from this study, duration of employment and the locus of control among the characteristics of the nurses, job enrichment among the characteristics of nursing job were direct or indirect predictors of the organizational effectiveness of the nursing units. Group dynamics in the nursing units and the characteristics of organizational behavior were mediating variables for the organizational effectiveness of the nursing units, and affect directly and indirectly on the individual outcome and group outcome to the great extends. Conclusion : Therefore, nursing managers ought to develop career ladder program and based job enrichment program in order to improve the organizational effectiveness of the nursing units. Additionally, programs to improve organizational effectiveness via improve group dynamics and characteristics of the organizational behaviors should be developed.

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Meta-analysis of Factors Influencing Job Stress of Occupational Therapist in Korea (국내 작업치료사의 직무스트레스에 영향을 미치는 변수에 대한 메타분석)

  • Shim, Sun-Hwa;Kim, Eun-Joo;Park, Eun-Young
    • The Journal of Korean society of community based occupational therapy
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    • v.10 no.1
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    • pp.1-15
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    • 2020
  • Objective : The purpose of this study is to investigate the factors affecting occupational therapist's job stress through meta-analysis. Methods : In order to achieve the purpose of the study, 15 studies that examined job stress of occupational therapists were selected for analysis. The general characteristics of individual papers and the magnitude of the effect of related variables on job stress were calculated. The effect size of related variables on job stress and sub-factors (Fisher z) were calculated. Results : The results were found that the effect size on job stress was not significant in the variables of education level, salary and age. The largest effect size was found to be turnover intention (ES=1.161). There was no significant effect size in sub-factors of interpersonal conflict, organization system and insufficient job control. There was a significant effects in physical environment, lack of reward, job insecurity, job demand and occupational climate. Conclusion : The results of this study were suggested that an approach depending on sub-factors is needed to reduce job stress of occupational therapists. Satisfaction, burnout, and self-efficacy, which are psychological factors, are considered to be needed a program for psychological empowerment in order to reduce the job stress of the occupational therapist with a medium effect size according to individual sub-factors.

Study on Elements influencing on Job Satisfaction of Employees in Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (호스피스.완화의료기관 종사자의 직무만족도에 영향을 미치는 요인에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Myoung-Hee;Choe, Wha-Sook
    • Korean Journal of Hospice Care
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    • v.7 no.1
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    • pp.15-28
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    • 2007
  • This study was focused on figure out what kinds of elements are influencing on job satisfaction with approach of the educational system. It was also to figure out how work characteristics and role conflicts of employees influence on job satisfaction. Objects of study were employeeswho had been working in Hospice and Palliative medical center at least for 6 months, and they were doctors, nurses, ministers, and welfare workers. Collected materials were analyzed by Frequency Analysis, One-way ANOVA, Correlation Analysis, and SimpleRegression Analysis. Results from study can be summarized like below. The first, job satisfaction of workers in Hospice and Palliative medical center were 3.36, and this numerical value is pretty high over all. For saying from the higher to the lower satisfaction level, there were satisfaction with job itself, satisfaction with co-workers, satisfaction with seniors (superiors), and satisfaction with organizations, on the other hands, satisfaction with salaries was turned out as the lowest level among those. The second, role conflict was 2.63, and it is considered as the medium level. after inquiring into it by elements of role conflict, they felt many environmental difficulties compared to other workers in different fields such as environmental difficulty, role ambiguity, insufficient ability, process obscurity, etc. The third, work environment influencing on job satisfaction are as follows. Professional environment among characteristics of work environment was significant statistically. Job satisfaction of ministers was the highest; others were in the order of doctors, welfare workers, and nurses. For employment history, job satisfaction was higher as they have more and longer job experience including whole professional experience both in hospice and palliative medical center. In addition, participating in hospice and palliative programs, intensive training regularly was significantly. Job Motivation was also significant statistically. Especially, job satisfaction was higher when people decided to work in hospice and palliative medical center because of individual desire (self-realization). Lastly, influence of role conflict on job satisfaction is as follows. Environmental difficulty, role ambiguity, insufficient ability, process obscurity, etc showed the significant meaning statistically, and the lower role conflict was related with the higher job satisfaction. Suggestions for next study based on such results are as follows in order to improve or increase job satisfaction of employees in hospice/palliative medical centers. The first, to expand education opportunity of employees is needed to increase job satisfactionof hospice/palliatives medical centers. Participating in intensive programs and seminars by types of occupation and acquiring professional knowledge are very important since employees are motivated by those activities. For that, developing and activating intensive education/programs by professional occupations are suggested. The second, dividing roles of employees and determining each job's limit clearly in hospice/palliative medical centers are required. For that, study developing standard job regulations is suggested for each professional job. Lastly, developing and providing reasonable salaries is needed because low salaries of hospice/palliative medical centers are the absolute reason lowering job satisfaction. Therefore, this paper suggests improving the salary level of employees of hospice/palliative medical centers and developing practical plan for it.

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The Effects of Foodservice Employee's Job Stressors on Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention - Focused on Social Support and Coping Strategies - (외식 종사원의 직무 스트레스 요인이 직무 만족 및 이직 의도에 미치는 효과 - 사회적 지원과 대처 전략의 효과 검증 -)

  • Kim, Young-Hun
    • Culinary science and hospitality research
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    • v.16 no.4
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    • pp.206-219
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    • 2010
  • The purpose of this study is to manage job stress of foodservice employees effectively by analyzing their job stressors and relationship of job satisfaction and turnover intention. It also analyzed the effects of social support and coping strategies on job stressors. The data for the study were collected through conducting a survey to the employees who work at hotel foodservice departments and buffet restaurants in Busan area. Major suggestions and significances of this study can be outlined as follows: First, it was found that 6 job related stressors(work environment, personal relation, role, task characteristics, career development, individual character). Second, it was revealed that personal relation and career development factors have an effect on employees' job satisfaction and turnover intention. Third, it was illustrated that social support and coping strategies have a moderating effect of job stressors between job satisfaction and turnover intention.

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A Review of Studies the Job Stress Management Interventions(SMIs) conducted from 1991 to 2004 (직무스트레스관리중재에 대한 논문 분석(1991-2004))

  • Kim, Jeong Hee
    • Korean Journal of Occupational Health Nursing
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    • v.16 no.1
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    • pp.15-27
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    • 2007
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to identify patterns and trends of studies of SMIs from 1999 to 2004, and to suggest the directions of future research activities. Method: 38 research studies of SMIs were selected and classified according to the sample characteristics, and the types of SMIs and outcome variables. Results: The number of SMIs studies has been increased since 1991, but it was more smaller than descriptive studies. They tended to be conducted more without the conceptual framework or randomization. Nurses were the most popular subjects and GHQ was more prevalent than other instruments. SMIs studies used confusedly in "job stress" terms. The outcome variables, most frequently measured were "anxiety and depression". 46 interventions were conducted in 38 studies. Most of them were individual worker-focused intervention and CBT was most frequently conducted. There were wide variations in duration, and intervals of SMIs. Conclusions: These results of this study will be used to guide the development of SMIs. And it was needed to identify and debate on 'stress' terms among the authors and to develop the SMIs. Also, it will be needed research that evaluate the effect of Job SMIs and experimental studies must be conducted rather than descriptive studies.

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The Influence of the Locus of control of the Global Public Enterprises on the Job Involvement and Turnover Intention

  • Kim, Boem Soo;Choi, Pil Ho;Kim, Il Sik;Hwang, Il Yeong
    • International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2019
  • The purpose of this study is to reduce the costs required to proactively prevent the turnover intention by the results of personality type of locus of control. which is the behavioral outcome of the members of the organization. Based on this problem consciousness, the present study focused on the personal characteristics of the members of the organization in the enterprise. Among the individual characteristics, the intentions, which are distinct from others, are called personality, Focusing on the locus of control among these types of characteristics of the organization members, the study about how these control positions affect their job involvement and their turnover intention. The results validated in this study are summarized as follows. Among the personality types of the organization's members, internals are found to have higher job involvement than externals. In addition, it was found that internals among the personality types of the members of the organization lower the meaning of turnover intention than external member. In order to overcome uncertain management environment and create and sustain a competitive advantage in the organization, management has a weight-oriented trend and Increasing job involvement in organizational members and lowering their turnover intention will lead to continued productivity, among other things, important management items that managers and managers should pursue. Given these aspects, it is deemed necessary to analyze the personality aspects of the members of the organization and to transform and manage a new management mindset that leads to the enhancement of the personality as an internal rather than an external one and the task immersion of the members of the organization based on it.