지방자치단체장의 비서·보좌인력 규모에 관한 연구:인력규모 결정요인을 중심으로

This paper aims to reveal the main determinant factors in defining the limitations on Mayoral supporting staff including secretarial workforce and personal aides. First, by exploring the precedent literatures and studies in question, and second, by using the empirical and statistical methodology to fix the size of the workforce supporting the head of local government in Korea. Generally speaking, the number of required local public officials in Korean local government is calculated in terms of a local government’s overall administrative needs and financial competences. Data relating to mayoral supporting staff limitations are normally determined in the same way as mentioned above. The results of this study show that the main factors defining the scope and number of required mayoral aides and supporting staff are influenced directly by local government administrative competences (size, financial situations, etc.). Also that there are differential influence factors to fix the number of supporting staffs in mayoralty; the financial autonomy rate is a predominant factor in city local government and the local resident size in rural and urban district local government; in county local government are determinant the administrative competences, financial situations, overall administrative needs etc. But the final finding of this empirical research tells us that, despite the consideration of these various factors determining the size of mayoral secretarial and personal workforce, the direct and prevailing attribute is dependent on each mayor’s personal willingness to decide how many staff he/she wants to manage in their local government.