여성친화적 인적자원관리가 여성근로자의 지위 향상에 미치는 영향

Women-Friendly HRM and Women's Position in Labor Market Kwag, Seon-Hwa This study has investigated the actual condition about utilizing of women employees in regional strategic industries. Data are gathered from a total of 405 companies from the strategic industries of Busan, Ulsan, and Kyung-Nam region. The results are as follows; working women are low in a position in terms of the rate of economic activity and their working conditions and face discriminatory employment opportunities. In other words, women faced stress - from both their works and the home/social environments - that was not experienced by their male counterparts. To enhance the work lives of women employees, this study has reasoned inductively on the relationship between women-friendliness(women-friendly HRM; WF-HRM), consisting of family-friendly and work-friendly policies, and the status of working women. The study found that WF-HRM can effect higher rate of women working at the core jobs as like R&D and marketing part. It also fount that WF-HRM can effect higher rate of women managers, especially over the middle level. Lastly, WF-HRM is positively related to improve women's competency. After all, WF-HRM influences much to enhance the women's status at the labor market. That is, more women-friendly organizations have better competent employees that are one of key success factors of organizational effectiveness. KeyWords:women-friendliness, women-friendly HRM, gender employment equity, affirmative action, regional strategic industry