유노조기업 내 혁신적 작업조직과 근로자․노동조합의 보호

This study empirically explores how much the adoption of innovative workplace practices within the unionized sector affects the protection of workers and labor union such as employment security clauses, gain-sharing, workers’ discretion and indirect participation, and also whether labor union acts as a moderator between the adoption of innovative workplace practices and the practices to protect workers and labor union. The samples of manufacturing establishments with equal to or more than 100 employees out of the four waves of Workplace Panel Survey data(2005-2011, biannually) are used and panel data analyses with fixed effects logit models and dynamic panel data models are employed as empirical models. The results of this study indicate that the adoption of innovative workplace practices in the unionized sector affects significantly employment security policy(+) at α=0.01, profit/gain sharing program(+) at α=0.01, redundancy rate(-) at α=0.10, and work-teams’ discretion(+) α=0.10, but that it does not significantly affect the contract of employment security clauses and indirect participation. The results also indicate that the existence of labor union do not moderate significantly the relations between the adoption of innovative workplace practices and the practices to protect workers and labor union. The results above imply that Korean labor unions do not play significant roles in facilitating protection of workers and labor union in the innovative workplace practices. Finally the results are summarized, and their implications are discussed.