Employment Relations in South Korea Evidence from Workplace Panel Surveys

Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes; it also contributes to the general understanding of various phenomena and changes in Korean employment relations. To this end, contributors focus on presenting their findings in a manner that is easily accessible whilst offering in-depth quantitative analyses on specific topics or issues within the realm of employment relations. This book seeks to depict accurately and to understand the big picture of employment relations and the nature and characteristics of these relations. In doing so, this volume employs a multidisciplinary approach to examine employment relations from multiple dimensions through various methods.

The Korea Labor Institute (KLI) is a government-funded research organization whose founding mission is to support the government's labor policy-making and to contribute to the development of Korean society by studying and analyzing issues of employment and industrial relations. At a time when the Korean economy needs to overcome the aftermath of the global financial crisis and make another leap, there is an urgent need to address employment issues and review the current employment safety net. The KLI strives to preemptively present effective policy alternatives, based on an interdisciplinary approach, that can help mitigate the employment crisis.

Kiu Sik Bae is Director-General of the Labor Relations and Social Policy Research Division at the KLI. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick, UK.

Jung Woo Kim is a Senior Researcher for the Workplace Panel Service at the KLI.

Kimin Kim is a Senior Researcher for the Workplace Panel Service at the KLI.

PART I: INTRODUCTION
1. About the Study
2. Workplace and Worker Characteristics in Surveyed Workplaces
PART II: THE MANAGEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS
3. Human Resource Management
4. Wage Levels and the Management of Wages
5. Corporate Welfare as Depicted in the Workplace Panel Survey
6. The Labor Market and Industrial Relations for Non-Regular Workers
PART III: COLLECTIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
7. Analysis of the Functional Level of Labor Relations: Focusing on Wage and Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes
8. Labor Unions and Industrial Relations
9. Industrial Relations in Non-Unionized Workplaces
PART IV: WORK ORGANIZATION
10. Education/Training and Skill Formation
11. Workplace Innovation and the Work Process
12. Long Working Hours
PART V: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION
13. Summary and Conclusion