2016, Vol.26, No.4

Korean Society and Public Administration 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 1.89

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

Conceptualizing ethical management from both the wide-active and narrow-passive perspectives, this study examines the ethical management system and its impacts on the managerial performance of public bodies in Korea. Ethical management of public bodies has been narrowly viewed from a passive perspective (e.g., legislation for anti-corruption, compliance with the Acts, and revision of corporate governance). According to the literature, however, it can be defined as a broader concept from the view of corporate social responsibility and accountability. In this context, the present study explores the influence of ethical management on organizational and financial performance using annual performance evaluation data from government for 30 public corporations and 37 quasi-governmental agencies for the years 2011-2013. Based on the results, theoretical and policy implications for the ethical management of public bodies are discussed.

This research explores the types of governance to improve accountability in Korean public employment services(PES). There has been increasing pressure to restructure PES governance with the expansion of service participants including central ministries, local governments, and private agencies after the diffusion of new public management paradigm. We discussed four possible types of PES governance―centralized, cooperative, decentralized, market-oriented, and analyzed the PES service provision structure. The present Korean PES governance is the by-product of both ILO recommendation in 1920s and expanding participation of private employment services in accordance with the diffusion of decentralization and market-oriented managerialism. As a result, we suggest that it is required to change the mode of PES governance from monopolized centralization to centralized competition or decentralized cooperation.

This research examines the determinants of an individual’s proactive environmental behavior through a theoretical lens of resource mobilization, including consumption restraints, green consumption, willingness to pay for environmental costs, and environmental activism. Particularly, it focuses on the roles of internal resources that individuals can possess and external resources (i.e., trust) that they can garner from and accumulate through continuous interaction with others. Also, this research evaluates interactive relationships between internal resources and external resource such as trust. Using the 2012 Korean Environmental Survey, we construct a structural equation model. The empirical results show that internal resources such as education and income levels are effective to triggering individuals’ environmental behavior. Also, our results confirm interaction effects between internal resources and trust, meaning that trust can amplify the effects of internal resources on facilitating environmental behavior. This result suggests that different levels of internal resources by individuals can be overcome by trust accumulated through social and relational networks. Finally, this study implies that it is important for government to play a active role in establishing and promoting social trust through policy and institutional mechanisms suitable to different policy time dimensions.