This research analyzed the job satisfaction following individual/family variables, employment-related variables, and utilization variables of family-friendly corporate policies of employed mothers with young children to understand the effect of the in...
This research analyzed the job satisfaction following individual/family variables, employment-related variables, and utilization variables of family-friendly corporate policies of employed mothers with young children to understand the effect of the influence family-friendly corporate policies on job satisfaction. In order to do this, age, education level, personal income, family income, home ownership, family makeup, and age of the youngest child were examined as individual/family variables while the type of occupation, weekly working hours, longevity of services, employment position, work status, employment status, and total number of employees were examined as vocation related variables.
Additionally, systems for work, leave, and benefit along with corporate-sponsored child care centers were examined as variables regarding the utilization of family-friendly corporate policies, and such variables were studied to see what influences they had and how they were related to the job satisfaction.
This research surveyed, using questionnaires, targeting 237 employed mothers with preschool children while the actual survey was conducted after the produced questionnaires were modified and supplemented following a pre-survey. The data analysis on the collected questionnaires was done through the T-test, ANOVA, cross analysis, and regression analysis including descriptive analysis.
The main research results are as follows.
First, the reality was that companies performed only legally mandatory family-friendly corporate policies and even workers used only obligatory ones.
Second, the result of examining the actual utilization situation of work, leave, and benefit systems along with a system of corporate-sponsored child care centers showed that personal income in regards to individual/family characteristics, and longevity of service, work status, employment status, and total number of employees for vocational characteristics were the commonly effecting variables. That is, the approaching character of workers was simple because the bigger the company’s scale, the more family-friendly corporate policies were mandatory. Among the four policies described in the above, a significant difference on age was seen only in a system of corporate-sponsored child care centers. By showing the fact that women aged 25~30 used this policy most frequently, it was deduced that it supported child upbringing for women in this age group. Moreover, if the problem of childcare is partly resolved through a system of corporate-sponsored child care centers, it is anticipated that the work-home balance will receive positive influences.
Third, the ease of use in the organizational culture of family-friendly corporate policies was more positive the more a company was a firm which is legally obligatory or it is a conglomerate where safety such as full-time or regular employment is secured as mentioned previously. On the other hand, if disadvantages exist, they are applicable to over 31years old workers, the most sensitive periods to personnel and those who have worked over 3 years.
Fourth, the result of studying the differences in the job satisfaction according to individual/family/vocational characteristics of survey targets, economic aspects such as personal income, family income, home ownership, and more were seen as outstanding while for the type of occupation, the job satisfaction of employed mothers with professional jobs was high. Fifth, in the job satisfaction along the utilization of family-friendly corporate policies, systems of leave and benefit gave influences on the job satisfaction. Namely, it suggests that policies able to help the financial aspects will have a positive influence on the job satisfaction.
Sixth, when seeing the job satisfaction according to the ease of the utility of family-friendly corporate policies; acceleration of use, disadvantages on personnel affairs, caring about superiors, caring about coworkers, and the ease of use appeared to have low correlation with the job satisfaction.
Lastly, the result of hierarchically regression-analyzing by inputting individual/family/vocational characteristics variables and the utility of family-friendly corporate policies, the biggest execution variable, excluding the sense of economic safety and the leave system, was the ease regarding the utility of family-friendly corporate policies.