Exploitation of female workforce in Korea increases more than in the past as general conditions such as intensification of provisions relating to maternity protection in the Equal Employment Opportunity Law or the Labor Standard Act. As creativity and...
Exploitation of female workforce in Korea increases more than in the past as general conditions such as intensification of provisions relating to maternity protection in the Equal Employment Opportunity Law or the Labor Standard Act. As creativity and intuition of women that enable to take an active measure to face-paced environment as well as management participation in terms of figuring out consumption behaviors and desires of female consumers along with an importance of women's economic activity are mainly highlighted, recent creative activities by women are given more weights out of the total economic activities.
Due to performances on both household activities and economic activities along with gender discriminating factors that have been existed for a long time, women in 30's in Korea show phenomena of deviation from the labor market, and, in case of highly educated women, there are many cases of downward employment and eternal secession due to earnings of family members.
This study considers such a reality, putting a basis of influences from government support policies unlike previous study, which sees creative inspiration with individual characteristics, to contain critical minds for women entrepeneurs support systems or work-family balance policies from government in order to prevent career breaks for women in the era of low fertility and population aging.
Recently, many women are supported with funds, education, and career route in procedures of employment via policies for entrepreneurship, and the government expands a range of coverage for employment support system for women in order to decrease erotic affairs due to economic activities from married women and burden of child care, establishing research models of women entrepreneurs support system and work-family balance policies as variables influencing intents and motivation for entrepreneurs. In addition, moderating effects of labour market entry impediments on the relationship between policies for entrepreneurship and motivation for entrepreneurship, moderating effects of labour market entry impediments on the relationship between work-family balance policies and motivation for entrepreneurship, and moderating effects of labour market entry impediments on the relationship between motivation and intents of entrepreneurship are covered in this study.
In order to achieve such objectives of research, this study conducts a survey on prospective women entrepreneurs who exploit business incubators or policies for entrepreneurship while receiving education related to entrepreneurship, practically utilizing collected date for analysis, and the research results of the study are as follow.
First of all, it turns out that usability of policies of entrepreneurship for women positively influences on the motivation of entrepreneurship, while work-family balance policies do not give significant impacts on the motivation of entrepreneurship.
Second of all, motivation of entrepreneurship positively influences on the intents of entrepreneurship.
Thirdly, labor market entry impediments show moderating effects on the influence from policies of women entrepreneurship or work-family balance , classifying differently in the study according to the degree of how labor market entry impediment are perceived. As a result, for groups of who show low perception of labour market entry impediments are turned out to be more influenced on the motivation of entrepreneurship by policies for entrepreneurship. In case of groups with higher labour market entry impediments to the next level, it turns out that work-family balance policies positively influences on the motivation of entrepreneurship, while groups with lower impediments are less influenced on the motivation of entrepreneurship by work-family balance policies.
This means that work-family balance policies positively influence on the motivation of entrepreneurship when labour market entry impediments are high.
Fourthly, it turns out that labour market entry impediments show positive influences on between motivation of entrepreneurship and intents of entrepreneurship, while groups with higher perception of entry impediments are more influenced on intents of entrepreneurship by the motivation of entrepreneurship than those with lower perception. .
Based on results of such practical researches, government support policies have to be improved so that policies of women entrepreneurship or promotrion for women employment positively influence on the motivation of entrepreneurship of married women. In addition, it is expected to derive an active participation from family oriented institutions other than government support policies in order to establish family oriented corporate culture including cultivation of parental leave policies and activation of flexible scheduling of work as they show higher rate of consumers satisfaction along with high productivity and trends of long-term service with lower employment separation rates.
For prospective women entrepreneurs who lack of business preparation such as practical experiences and related knowledge, efforts for providing conveniently usable entrepreneurship education, proper budget support policies, and various policies for supporting companies owned by women after initiating business seem to be needed in order to enhance rates of success of initiating business owned by women.