2013, Vol.24, No.1

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

The purpose of this study is to identify determinants of performance perception and satisfaction with openness in the civil service. The analytical model consists of two dimensions of determinants based on previous studies. The first dimension is comprised of culture and policy as exogenous variables, while the second dimension includes individual characteristics as endogenous variables. The culture and policy dimension is composed of four variables: (1) performance oriented organizational culture and patronage or spoils system, (2) recruitment and appointment process, (3) reward and performance management, and (4) work environment. The individual dimension is composed of three variables: (1) competence, (2) motivation, and (3) responsibility. This study is based on a survey of 290 government employees, stratified by agency type. Responses were received from open position senior civil service appointees, contract based employees, and other related employees. The results of the analysis reveal a positive recruitment and appointment procedures to have the largest impact upon employees’ performance perception and satisfaction with openness, followed by individual performance, overcoming patronage, work environment, and competencies of open position appointees. This study contributes to the development of theory through identifying determinants of performance and satisfaction with openness in the civil service, and testing their relative influence using structural equation modeling.

This study examines the professionalism of committee staff directors in the standing committees of the Korean national assembly. Although committee staff directors, responsible for reporting the article-by-article discussion and analysis of proposed bills to their committee members, play a critical role in supporting legislative activities, few studies pay attention to their personnel management related roles and functions. To fill this gap in the literature, the present study analyzes survey data from the national assembly secretariat to examine legislative bureaucrats’ understanding of the professionalism of the committee staff directors. The analysis reveals that many Korean legislative bureaucrats regard professionalism as the most important consideration to be a committee staff director. In addition, staff working in administrative positions are likely to emphasize the ability to assist committee operation. Considering that satisfaction with the personnel system for chief committee staff directors is low, this study offers policy recommendations on personnel management for the national assembly.

This study analyzes the performance-related pay system of national universities according to Kingdon(2003)'s policy stream model. The system is so rare that it is difficult to find both nationwide and worldwide studies. The system of national universities is varied with that of public servants and of other universities in the world because the performance pay of the former is accumulated into the basic pay of the next year. But other universities' system is incentive not to be added in the next year pay. This study finds that the policy window of the performance-related pay system of national universities is partly opened when the problem stream, political stream, and policy stream are coupled. However, the results show that there is the limitation of Kingdon's policy stream model to explain the change of the system entirely. This study suggests the future study to apply time lag theory to the policy stream model for analyzing the performance-related pay system of the professors in national universities.