근로자의 의사결정참여와 노조 가입의사

This study examines the impact of the participative management practices, in particular the small group activity and work council, on the intention of employees to join unions as members. Its sample consist of employees working non-union establishments drawn from the 8th survey of KLIPS. We test out hypothesis predicting the influence of participative management on the employees's intention to join unions by adding participative management variable into a theoretical model in which job satisfaction and instrumentality of unions influence the intention of employees. In our model, direct and indirect participation are supposed to influence the intention of employees to join unions playing a mediating variable role. Analysis is done by using a separate sample of small-and-medium, and large firms. Results show that job satisfaction and union instrumentality are correlated to the employees' intention to join union in large firm sample, while this is not the case in small and medium firms. On the other hand, direct participation is weakly but positively related to the employees' intention to join unions while indirect participation is not related to it. In addition, the mediating effect of the participative management is not supported by our results. These implies that there could be some other variables mediating the participative management and the intention of employees to join unions.