인사관행이 기술혁신에 미치는 영향

Organizational ability to innovate becomes a key factor to ensure their survival and prosperity in the turbulent global market, and there is growing evidence that human resource management practices are important predictors of innovation performance. But only scant attention has been paid to the role of human resource management practices in innovation among Korean scholars. Do human resource management practices really have impact on technological innovation? Using Workplace Panel Survey data carried out by Korea Labor Institute in 2006, this study investigates the effect of human resource management practices on innovation performance. We found that index of human resource management practices was positively related with the number of patents filed, product innovation, and employee innovation. The use of contingent work was positively related with employee innovation. We found that work organization practices was positively related with product innovation and employee innovation, but we did not find association between work organization practices and the number of patents filed. We suggested that as the target of work organization practices are production workers and the number of patents is mainly the job of R&D professionals so these appeared no relationship between the two variables. Finally we suggested the implications of our findings and proposed research questions.