연구원의 경력 선택, 연구개발노력 그리고 몰입효과에 관한 연구: 공공연구기관 사례를 중심으로

This paper studies the individual attributes, job characteristics and roles, and social relationships of the researchers of a public research institute, which influence their organizational commitment and career commitment in order to analyze the impact of these factors on the researchers’ work attitudes including research efforts, and intentions to change their careers or jobs. To achieve these goals, eight Antecedent variables were induced, through a factor analysis based on the results of a survey among the researchers; and a regression was run on the researchers’ commitments and work attitudes. The results of the analysis showed that the researchers’ job characteristics and roles and the characteristics of the research institute had significant influence on the researchers’ work and career commitments; and it was empirically proven that such commitment variables had significant influence on the researchers R&D efforts and intentions to change careers or jobs. In particular, job autonomy, job satisfaction, horizontal relationships, and the fairness of the evaluation had positive impacts on the organization and on the researchers’ career commitments; organizational commitment had a negative impact on the researchers’ intentions to leave their jobs, and the researchers’ tendency to be career-oriented had a positive impact on their research and development efforts. Thus, the hypotheses and the results of prior studies were confirmed among highly educated researchers. Furthermore, from the results, it is proposed that more diverse goals or career development possibilities are to be allowed to researchers, and it is deemed necessary to provide job autonomy as well as suitable roles even to researchers in their 40’s to sustain their career commitment.