2004, Vol.31, No.2

Korean Social Science Journal 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 0.06

pISSN : 1225-0368 / eISSN : 2196-4424
https://journal.kci.go.kr/kssj

In this paper, we explore three Korean Chaebols, Samsung Electronics, LG Electronics, and SK Telecom, in terms of their strategic similarities and differences in developing and maintaining global managers. After reviewing the basic features pertaining to human resource systems in these firms, we focus on their global human resource management practices and identify characteristics specific to each as well as and factors that they have in common. We then discuss how the resource-based view of the firm suggested by Barney (1991) explains specific and generic features of each companys global human resource development system. We also discuss whether some of the specific global human resource practices in these companies could be transferred to other multinational companies outside of Korea.

This study examines the cross-cultural transferability of organizational commitment as a construct in relation to Korean employees. OReilly and Chatmans organizational commitment scale was used to test whether organizational commitment has the same construct validity and criterion-related validity in a Korean context. This study also compares the concept of organizational commitment in relation to both professional and non-professional employees.The relationships typically found in the United States between organizational commitment measures and other theoretically related variables were also [delete also] found in the investigation of a Korean sample group [delete group]. In addition, differing magnitudes of work-related commitments, i.e., organizational commitment and career commitment were found between professional employees and non-professional employees in this sample. The concept of the transferability of organizational theories and measures across cultures was generally supported.

The present study investigated 4-, 6- 8- and 10-year-olds’s ability to judge the equivalence among proportions that involved discrete quantities. Problems were presented in the context of making magic water. Children were shown a target proportion (the recipe for the magic water) and were asked to find an equivalent proportion among three choices for the magic water. The results of this investigation provide evidence for three main conclusions. First, children’s performance in judging proportion with discrete quantities was mainly related to their correct/incorrect use of the number strategy. 4 and 6 year olds failed because they used erroneous number strategy, whereas 10 year olds succeeded by using correct number strategy. Second, young children’s tendency to use the erroneous number strategy was closely linked to their conventional counting knowledge. Third, children performed significantly better when they can use the half-boundary, providing evidence that half plays a general and important role in children’s proportional judgments. In sum, our findings indicate that children’s performance in proportional reasoning task may depends on their choice of a particular strategy that may be provoked by characteristics of problems and by their mathematical knowledge.