The purpose of this study is to investigate efficient measures of managing youth upbringing foundations established in Gyeonggi-do when variety in youth policies and active intervention for at-risk youth are socially demanded. For the purpose, the aut...
The purpose of this study is to investigate efficient measures of managing youth upbringing foundations established in Gyeonggi-do when variety in youth policies and active intervention for at-risk youth are socially demanded. For the purpose, the authors in this study conducted focus group interviews for those who are in charge of youth adolescent service in the youth upbringing foundations in Gyeonggi-do to understand status and problems in managing such foundations. Based on the results of this study, the authors were purported to present measures of improving problems in managing youth upbringing foundations by comparing to adolescence-related institutions at home and abroad. In particular, the authors tried to comprehensively investigate facility management, work management, and roles of youth upbringing foundations, presenting improvements.
The results of this study were as follows.
First, there were differences in organizational structure and personnel support system by management agencies and regions of the youth upbringing foundations. Without securing professionalism and independence in managing the foundations, in particular, the decision-makers of the foundations may be difficult in promoting management with belief in youth upbringing and have hard time by trends of the times or politics. Thus, it is needed of systematization by strengthening standards for delegated decision on the decision-makers of the foundations in order for them to accomplish responsibility management, and criteria for appointment of the CEO of the foundations should include verification process on professionalism in adolescence.
Second, the system of personnel operating should be restructured in order to secure professionalism of those who work for the youth upbringing foundations via standard job analysis. Arrangement standards for proper number of the staff by youth facilities should be tightened, and for doing this, the standards for arranging personnel for the existing youth facilities such as facilities for youth activity, using, welfare, and protection should be reexamined and newly calculated for arrangement. Also, the staff should be arranged to set the job standards per job domain such as administration, education, consultation, and welfare.
Third, as for managing the youth upbringing foundations, when establishing the foundations serves as projects to expand public service for proper growth of local adolescents, budgets should be properly secured and preconditions requiring for performing youth policy projects of local or central governments should be prepared. Meanwhile, it is needed to establish a legal basis for maintaining cooperation with local office of education support.
Finally, the results of this study may show that some improvements should be firstly materialized for revitalization of the youth upbringing foundations. The foundations are managed on the basis of civil law because there are no legal bases on them; provisions of evidence for setting up a foundation should be established in laws for the youth. Given that operational regulations on personnel matters, employment, accounting, office management, and facility management are prepared and applied by the existing foundations based on situations of local government, regulations for operating youth upbringing foundations should be prepared and applied via business negotiation between the persons concerned in the foundations and divisions related to adolescence.
This study is limited in generalizing the results because the subjects were restricted in the youth upbringing foundations located in Suwon and Seongnam City. Further studies are needed to expand the scopes of regions and foundations and to compare and analyze the management status.