This study aims at correlating the effects of welfare management facilities' managerial regulations on their professional workforce's job satisfaction. It also aims to present some suggestions for the betterment of their administration. This will, in ...
This study aims at correlating the effects of welfare management facilities' managerial regulations on their professional workforce's job satisfaction. It also aims to present some suggestions for the betterment of their administration. This will, in the long run, contribute towards aiding the facilities in carrying out what roles are necessary for their operative goals. In order to find out the job satisfaction of welfare workers, this research has conducted a survey on welfare facility operatives in the Daegu, Busan, and Seoul Gyeonggi-do region, which contained the highest concentration of the 447 Buddhist welfare facilities. This study altered, and improved upon a survey used by 신운화(2005), 이성윤(2002), 이호걸(1999) in order to gauge the management of welfare facilities, and the job satisfaction of their workers. The subjects' population sociology-related characteristics, and facility management-related characteristics(general characteristics, Buddhist characteristics, manpower management characteristics), were used in the survey's structure.
This study showed that population sociology-wise, those of Buddhist faith, with a higher degree of education showed greater content in their jobs. As a whole, those surveyed averaged a score of 3.42 on a scale of 5, which signified that they were just a little more satisfied with their jobs than average. In the management of the facilities, participation in education, opportunities to study abroad, methods of employment, payment support of legal personnel, the welfare system, organizatioanl policy-making, as part of the general characteristics, and Buddhist ceremonies as part of the Buddhist characteristics, proved to be most effective in influencing the job satisfaction. Such results proved that the correlation between the facility's ideology and the worker's aptitude, and the facility's management in terms of disclosure, rationality, and democracy had an impact on job satisfaction. Contemplating over such results, the conclusion that in order to raise job satisfaction as a whole, an adequate salary, improvements in the wage system so as to encourage promotions, the provision of various educational opportunities, the introduction of a democratic management policy which actively participates in public recruitment, or policy establishment, and the management of a Buddhist program with originality will have to happen, has been reached.