본 연구는 우리나라 195개의 기업을 대상으로 세계적으로 관심의 대상이 되고있는 노동시장의 유연성 전략 즉 수량적 유연성과 기능적 유연성이 조직의 결과변수인 생산성, 노사협력성, 고용안정 등에 어떠한 영향을 주는가를 기업 단위로 분석하였다. 또한 노동시장 유연성(수량적 유연성 및 기능적 유연성)과 노사협력성및 고용안정간의 관계에서 노조 힘의 조절역할에 대해서도 분석하였다.
결과는 수량적 유연성은 생산성, 노사협력성, 고용안정 등과 유의한 관계를 보여주지 않았으나 기능적 유연성은 생산성, 노사협력성, 고용안정 등에 상당한 정의관계를 보여 주었다. 이러한 결과는 기업의 노동시장 전략에서 기능적 유연성의중요성을 다시 확인할 수 있다. 서구에서는 기능적 유연성의 중요성을 지속적으로주장하고 수량적 유연성의 문제점을 지적하고 있다. 그러나 본 연구에서는 기능적유연성의 긍정적 측면은 확인이 되었으나 수량적 유연성의 부정적 관계가 확인될수 없었다는 점에서 이들 관계는 앞으로 좀 더 연구가 지속되어야 하는 과제도 남겼다.
노동시장 유연성과 노사협력 및 고용안정과의 관계에서 노조 힘의 조절역할에대한 분석결과는 수량적 유연성과 노사협력성 관계에서만 노조 힘의 상호작용 효과가 확인되었다. 이러한 결과는 노조의 기회주의적 행동에 대한 가능성을 엿볼수 있다. 이러한 결과에 대한 논의를 할 것이다.
Taking 195 Korean businesses and sorting them out according to the unit types, this study looks into how flexibility strategy in labor market, which consists of numerical flexibility and functional flexibility, takes effect on the organization's outcome variable, which in turn consists of productivity,labor-management cooperation, and job security. In addition, the present study analyzes the role of labor union's moderating effect on the relationship among labor market flexibility, labor-management cooperation, and job security. It is found out as a result that numerical flexibility has no meaningful relation with productivity, labor-management cooperation, and job security,while functional flexibility has a considerably positive relation with them. This result confirms the importance of functional flexibility of business strategy in labor market. The West has continuously insisted the importance of functional flexibility, pointing out problems of numerical flexibility. On the other hand, considering that this study has confirmed functional flexibility's meaningful relation, while it has not found out numerical flexibility's negative relation, it is necessary to study further on the relationship between these two kinds of flexibility. The result of analysis on the role of union power's moderating effect confirms only the union power's interaction effect in the relation between numerical flexibility and labor-management cooperation. The possibility of union's opportunistic behavior can be detected in this result.
Taking 195 Korean businesses and sorting them out according to the unit types, this study looks into how flexibility strategy in labor market, which consists of numerical flexibility and functional flexibility, takes effect on the organization's outcome variable, which in turn consists of productivity,labor-management cooperation, and job security. In addition, the present study analyzes the role of labor union's moderating effect on the relationship among labor market flexibility, labor-management cooperation, and job security. It is found out as a result that numerical flexibility has no meaningful relation with productivity, labor-management cooperation, and job security,while functional flexibility has a considerably positive relation with them. This result confirms the importance of functional flexibility of business strategy in labor market. The West has continuously insisted the importance of functional flexibility, pointing out problems of numerical flexibility. On the other hand, considering that this study has confirmed functional flexibility's meaningful relation, while it has not found out numerical flexibility's negative relation, it is necessary to study further on the relationship between these two kinds of flexibility. The result of analysis on the role of union power's moderating effect confirms only the union power's interaction effect in the relation between numerical flexibility and labor-management cooperation. The possibility of union's opportunistic behavior can be detected in this result.