One of the most important management issues Korean firms are facing is high turnover among workers. Serious concern is that the high turnover can reduce productivity and morale of the remaining workers as well as accumulated technological know-how may...
One of the most important management issues Korean firms are facing is high turnover among workers. Serious concern is that the high turnover can reduce productivity and morale of the remaining workers as well as accumulated technological know-how may drain. The result may be that the firms will lose competitive advantage.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a department store manager's leadership on employee's job satisfaction and turnover intention, and to enhance the degree of job satisfaction for the employees, additionally to present the desirable leadership of a department store manager in order to diminish employee's turnover intention.
On the basis of the analysis results, the following main conclusions were drawn.
From the study, it is learned that level of recognition on career development opportunity has substantial impact on the level of job satisfaction. Comparison of level of job satisfaction from each employment status by recognition on detailed criteria shows that when employees reckon stable employment condition in a long-term basis, high possibility on promotion and job rotation, they seemed to have significant level of job satisfaction. In this regard, it is noted that employees showed high level of job satisfaction when they recognized opportunities on stable employment status, development and training, promotion and job rotation.
It is learned that leadership style of manager does affect the level of job satisfaction and turn-over intention. It seems that when employees perceived leadership style of their manager as employee-oriented one, they showed high level of job satisfaction.
To summarize, this study shows that recognition of opportunity on career development of respective employees and leadership style of the manager are the main factors that affect the level of job satisfaction. In particular, where an atypical employees, whose working condition is not very secure and even inferior to those of regular employees in terms of salary and fringe benefits, recognizes any opportunity of his/her career development, it is observed that the employees has high level of job satisfaction. This implies that higher productivity can be achieved by motivation atypical employees with introduction of vision on their career development that eventually, leads to high level of job satisfaction.
Proper human resources management should be sought according to the employment status to improve productivity as well as employee's job satisfaction, which comes from improvement on employment status, training, promotion, career development through job rotation as well as effective task allocation that can make best use of employee's capability.