Much emphasis as equivalent as raising the employment rate for the disabled must be laid on helping ensure their stable work life. However, the status quo in our nation is to only focus on 'being-employed' problems for the handicapped, rather than tak...
Much emphasis as equivalent as raising the employment rate for the disabled must be laid on helping ensure their stable work life. However, the status quo in our nation is to only focus on 'being-employed' problems for the handicapped, rather than taking a policy-based, systematic outlook. The current study aims at focusing on job satisfaction by the disabled worker by measuring the level of difficulty they face in their workplace and identifying the reasons influential for their adaptation to jobs. For doing this, it carried out the preliminary study to analyze the correlation between job satisfaction itself and other independent variables verifiably relating to job satisfaction for the disabled worker being categorized such as; individual factors(gender, age, final education, marital status, level and type of impaired functioning), job-related factors(employment type, salary level, employment route) and working-related environmental factors (discomfort of workplace, benefit from employment support program).
The object to be studied is extracted from the raw data, to wit, the 2005 Nationwide Research for Actual Status of the Disabled by Korea Employment Promotion Agency for the Disabled, in an attempt to overcome statistical problem found over the past studies restricting their objects to the territorial population or for specific disability type. The study in this regard is targeting for 15,546 disabled people employed in the nationwide firms exceeding five full-time employees for executing Frequency analysis, T-test, ANOVA and Hierarchical multiple regression analyses.
The results from this study are as follows;
Firstly, the analysis for job satisfaction by the disabled worker depending on independent variables showed statistically significant difference varying with factors such as gender, age, marital status, educational background, disability type and classification, employment type, salary condition, employment route, workplace comfortability and use of car-pool program as one of employment support system.
Secondly, hierarchical multiple regression analysis was executed to find out what factors caused influential to job satisfaction for the disabled worker; to begin with, taking into consideration Model 1 only input by individual factors, and then the next Model 2 as factors for occupation, following Model 3 as working-related environmental factors. As a result, Model 1(F=23.808***) showed 5.3% as its descriptive force, while Model 2(F=56.665***) 15.2%, demonstrating that occupation-related factors were more influential by increasing 9.9%. Meanwhile, Model 3(F= 51.591***) showed 16% as its descriptive force, which increased only 0.8% against Model 2, demonstrating not so big influence by socio-environmental factors.
Factors influential to job satisfaction for the disabled worker with significant importance were verified including educational level, salary comparison, comfortability in workplace, accessibility to the employment support program.
In this context from this study the ways for improving job satisfaction for the disabled worker are as follows;
The external factors significantly effecting to the job satisfaction for the disabled are proven educational background and salary level. Therefore, the first relates to the effective preparation for the way to strengthen education for the disabled.
Secondly, much effort by the governmental level should be made to identify what causes the low income phenomena for the disabled worker in such a way for leveling up their salary more aggressively. The elastic salary compensation policy to fill up the gap of salary may be an alternative in order not to cast them into the class depending the social welfare net.
Thirdly, to raise the job satisfaction by the disabled, the organizations shall make their contribution to create workplace conditions adequately suitable for their disability types. The creation of favorable employment circumstances must include interpersonal factor, let alone the physical environmental factor, which means the organizations shall implement a program to rectify the biased viewpoint by the normal employees against the disabled colleagues.
Fourthly, the core in the governmental employment policy for the disabled is the rehabilitation program through employment. Nevertheless, there found only 23.5% in our nation for the disabled to be employed through state-run employment agencies setting apart from their functionality far beyond our expectation. Therefore, the channel for job mediating shall be qualitatively reorganized in a manner of covering the sector for the disabled people as well as the normal people.
Fifthly, the disabled in their teens and 20s have bigger ratio in their employment rather than the normal counterpart, but they have felt much difficulty in their adaptation process toward the labor market. Therefore, swifter service preparation must be needed by bridging job rehabilitation service with special education.