2011, Vol.21, No.4

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

pISSN : 1225-8652
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kspa

This study aims to investigate the effects of organizational justice including perceptions of compensation and promotion on career plateau, job commitment, and intention to turnover, based on a case study of a public corporation. In a survey questionnaire, 485 out of 1,278 employees responded and 417 cases without missing data were analyzed using structural equation models (SEMs). There were several key findings. First, satisfaction with procedural justice appears to have positive effects on compensation and promotion satisfaction, but negative effects on career plateau. However, satisfaction with promotion was found to have no statistically significant effects on career plateau when rank and length-of-service is controlled. Second, the length-of-service shows no statistically significant effect on public service motivation (PSM) and career plateau. In contrast, rank has a positive effect on procedural justice and PSM, but a negative effect on career plateau. Third, SEM results show that career plateau is the core factor for having a negative effect on job involvement: the stronger the dissatisfaction with career plateau, the higher the intention to turnover. In addition, PSM was found to have positive effects on job commitment and negative effects on the intention to turnover. Overall the results of the present study implies that it is important to utilize economic incentives, such as compensation, in order to enhance the efficiency of public organizations, but its success or failure depends on capabilities in cultivating employee PSM and resolving dissatisfaction with procedural justice and career plateau.

This study aims to analyze the relationship between job stress and job satisfaction of disabled employees. Especially, it examines whether social support including specific aids or services from others moderates the impact of job stress from work environment, role demand, and organizational justice on job satisfaction. The empirical results based on the data from Panel Survey of Employment for the Disabled(PSED) during the years of 2008 to 2009 show that social supports could alleviate or exacerbate the impact of job stress on job satisfaction while job stress itself has negative effects. These bifurcated effects of social support depend on the type of job stressors; for instance, social support seems to have buffering effect when the stress stems from work environment while reverse-buffering effect is found when the stress is related to the role demand and organizational justice. This suggests that it is important to consider the sources of job stress when social support is designed and provided in order to increase the job satisfaction of disabled employees.

This paper dealt with German welfare policy reforms and their consequential impact on the party structure through election. It analysed three governments between 1998 and the present: firstly, the social democratic and green party coalition (1998-2005); secondly, the grand coalition of the conservative and social democratic parties (2005-2009); lastly, the conservative and liberal party coalition (2009-present). The traditional German welfare system has difficulty in keeping up with globalization, aging society, knowledge-based economy and changing family structure with the problem of increasing financial deficits. To reshape welfare system, the social democratic party introduced Agenda 2010 and Hartz Reforms (including tax cuts and less labour market protection) in order to improve economic growth and thus reduce unemployment. The neo-liberal reform by the social democratic left party shows that German politics have entered a new era of restructuring conventional system in terms of state and individual responsibility, voter's preferences and five party constellations etc. The outcome will suggest a new perspective for understanding modern Western politics.