Employment Relations in South Korea [electronic resource] : Evidence from Workplace Panel Surveys /
Bae, K.editor.
Han'guk Nodong Yŏn'guwŏn.
Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and also to help the general public understand more easily the various phenomena and changes in Korean employment relations.
Description based upon print version of record.
Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Part I Introduction; 1 About the Study; 2 Workplace and Worker Characteristics in Surveyed Workplaces; 1 Introduction; 2 Panel workplace composition and characteristics; 3 Worker composition; 4 Conclusion; Part II The Management of Employment Relations; 3 Human Resource Management; 1 Introduction; 2 HR management in general; 3 Staffing (employment management); 4 Evaluation management; 5 Conclusion; 4 Wage Levels and the Management of Wages; 1 Introduction
2 The structure of wages3 Profit-sharing programs; 4 Severance pay and retirement pensions; 5 Conclusion; 5 Corporate Welfare and Maternity Protection Programs; 1 Introduction; 2 Nonstatutory employee benefits; 3 Flexible benefits plans; 4 Maternity protection programs; 5 Conclusion; 6 The Labor Market and Industrial Relations for Non-regular Workers; 1 Introduction; 2 Flexibility in personnel use; 3 Issues in the management of non-regular workers; 4 Conclusion; Part III Collective Industrial Relations
7 Analysis of the Functional Level of Labor Relations: Focusing on Wage and Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes1 Introduction; 2 Structure and process of wage bargaining; 3 Outcomes of wage bargaining; 4 Labor disputes; 5 Conclusion; 8 Trade Unions and Industrial Relations; 1 Introduction; 2 Status of trade unions; 3 Union leadership; 4 Union organizing activities; 5 The characteristics of industrial relations; 6 Conclusion; 9 Employment Relations in Non-unionized Workplaces; 1 Introduction; 2 State of labor-management councils (comparison of unionized and non-unionized workplaces)
3 Role and function of labor-management councils in non-unionized workplaces4 Participation in management of labor-management councils in non-unionized workplaces; 5 Conclusion; Part IV Work Organization; 10 Education/Training and Skill Formation; 1 Introduction; 2 Interest in skill levels and skill development; 3 The state of education/training implementation; 4 Education/training infrastructure; 5 Summary and implications; 11 Workplace Innovation and the Work Process; 1 Introduction; 2 Overview of work organizations; 3 Manufacturing industry characteristics
4 Management innovation programs within workplaces5 Workplace innovation index; 6 Conclusion; 12 Long Working Hours; 1 Introduction; 2 Implementation of the 40 hours working week; 3 Overtime hours; 4 Degree of long working hours; 5 Shift work; 6 Inclusive wage arrangements; 7 Partial use of annual paid leave; 8 Working time flexibility; 9 Summary and conclusion; Part V Summary and Conclusion; 13 Summary and Conclusion; 1 Stabilization and institutionalization of industrial relations at the enterprise level; 2 Narrower regulatory scope through industrial relations
3 Further dualization of the employment system
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and also to help the general public understand more easily the various phenomena and changes in Korean employment relations.
Management.
Personnel management.
International business enterprises.
Ethnology-Asia.
Organization.
Planning.
Labor economics.
Management.
Human Resource Management.
International Business.
Asian Culture.
Organization.
Labor Economics.