긴장 유발 인사시스템과 기업성과에 관한 탐색적 실증 연구

This study suggested human resource system(HRS) enhancing employee's tension and analysed the relationship between HRS enhancing tension and firm performance as well as employee effectiveness. Popularly, tension has been known and considered as a sort of stress that results in a negative phenomena such as heart disease, high blood pressure, and depression. However, this study applied the concept 'eustress' developed by Selye into the tension and adopted it to human resource system. The hypotheses were derived from the relationships between HRS enhancing tension and firm performance with employee effectiveness. The survey was conducted toward 220 employees working for companies have over 100 regular workers. The results were that various practices have argued as a HRS enhancing tension were significantly positive effects on firm performance and employee effectiveness on the whole. HRS enhancing practices correlated to dependent variables were strict training process, job rotation by authority, strict performance appraisal, open to individual score after performance appraisal, disparity in wage for employees, incentives for individual and group performance, job security, various fringe benefits, and satisfaction on profit sharing. Some practices were not significant with firm performance and employee effectiveness. In the part of conclusion, the implications and limitations were discussed.