The present study focuses on making a research design to verify the relationships between the organizational innovation and other variables such as complexity, technolgy, structural differentiation, size in the Korean bureaucracy.
Two different metho...
The present study focuses on making a research design to verify the relationships between the organizational innovation and other variables such as complexity, technolgy, structural differentiation, size in the Korean bureaucracy.
Two different methods are used in this comparative study of organizational innovation. One is classical hypothesis test in relation to the research problems, and the other is Aston group's method based on a heterogenous random sample of organizations in connection with sampling and measurement. The unit of analysis in this study is a bureau of Gug or Sil, which is a sampling unit. Such samples are extracted by the way of cluster sampling method.
By operational definition, the level of innovation is the degree of induction of new method and procedure for problem solving. Organizational size is simply measured by the number of full-time employees, whereas level of complexity is measured by the number of different occupations, level of training and extent of professional activity, level of technologgy is measured by the number and degree of difficulty of task methods and machine operations used for converting inputs into outputs, vertical differentiation is measured by the number of levels in the organization, and structural differentiation by the number of departments.
The following hypotheses are established in this study.
1. The greater the size of organization, the greater the degree of complexity.
2. The greater the degree of complexity, the greater the degree of organizational innovation.
3. The greater the level of technology, the greater the degree of organizational innovation.
4. The greater the level of technology, the greater the degree of complexity.
5. The greater the level of technology, the greater the degree of structural differentiation.
6. The greater the level of technology, the greater the degree of structural differentiation
7. The greater the degree of structural differentiation. the greater the degree of organizational innovation.
8. There will be significant differences between the findings of central agencies and those of local agencies.
In order to verify those hypotheses on the Korean bureaucracy, commonality analysis and path analysis are used in this study.