I. Objective of the Research
The central issues of 21st century society in the global village where the world is being re-organized as one market are knowledge and information. Also, the world economy is rapidly changing with these two factors as the...
I. Objective of the Research
The central issues of 21st century society in the global village where the world is being re-organized as one market are knowledge and information. Also, the world economy is rapidly changing with these two factors as the axes. However, although digital innovation has enhanced economic satisfaction, it is hard to be sure how digital innovation is committed to the “realization of a humanistic life style and society”, which is an economic objective. As the highly developed network economy is put on emergency alert for cyber terror owing to hackers, etc., the weakening of the moral consciousness of humans, the weakening of social responsibility, and a loss of ethics are also being highlighted as social problems.
The advent of the knowledge information era along with the development of science and technology has brought about a rapid change to the world of jobs. The cycle of the appearance and disappearance of jobs is becoming faster, and people face changes in the contents and form of jobs available. In the input-type economic system with its elements of labor and capital, more labor and more capital only functioned as a driving force for growth; however, in the knowledge information era, the efficient operation of the existing elements has become more crucial. Therefore, there is an increase in task-oriented organizations, namely task force teams, which are “organizations created temporarily in order to undertake a special job”.
Currently, it is known that the main factors that Koreans use for selecting a job include “reputation and honor”, “stability”, “income”, “aptitude and interest”, “worthwhile work and achievement of self”, and “growth potential and prospects” (National Statistical Office, 2006). However, given the reality where the character and type of an organization is diversified by the job undertaken, organizational culture should be an important factor for selecting a job, and consideration should be given to selecting a job appropriate to a person’s job ethics. This is because a person is certain to confront many conflicts if he or she has to undertake job in a work place where the organizational culture is not suitable for him or her, or for which job ethics do not match their own.
II. Research methods
This study conducted a research survey aimed at 346 assistants to national assembly members by selecting them as a sample of being in an organization with a task-oriented organizational culture. The study adopted a total of 302 copies among the collected data, by excluding 44 copies that had insincere answers, and conducted frequency analysis, independent sample t-test, and one-way ANOVA by using the SPSSWIN 12.0 program. The research results of the analysis include the following.
III. Results
First, for job ethics of the organization, there were differences according to “sex”, “education background”, “designation”, “route of being employed”, and “job that they were engaged in before joining the current company”; and for job ethics, there were differences according to “education background”, “designation”, and “frequency of job transfer”.
Second, as a result of analyzing the difference in the perception of job ethics according to the suitability for the organization and job, the job ethics of an organization showed differences in “dignity of human”, “public interest”, “dutiful spirit”, “awareness of calling”, “pride”, “kindness”, “righteousness”, “progressiveness”, “specialty”, “cooperation”, and “participation”; and the job ethics of the job showed differences in “human dignity”, “public interest”, “confidentiality”, and “participation”.
Third, there was a difference in “the accessibility of job ethics” of employees of a task-oriented organizational culture according to “sex”, “designation”, and “age”.
Fourth, there was a difference in the “view”, “working attitude”, “undertaking of work”, and “relationship” fields that comprise the job ethics of Koreans.
When summarizing the above results, there were differences in the perception of the job ethics of a task-oriented organizational culture and the general perception of the job ethics of Koreans; and, also, there were differences in “the perception of job ethics” and “satisfaction with working place and job” according to “the affinity with the organization and job”. Also, the results demonstrate that it is necessary to enhance the understanding of organizational culture as well as “aptitude and interest” and to try to select a job suitable for one’s job ethics, to stipulate the job ethics of all jobs in writing, and to reinforce education about job ethics to the members of organizations.