Performance assessment system is one of the main functions of personnel management, since it induces the goal achievement of an organization and that of its employees to be consistent with each other. In order to improve the system, today's many corpo...
Performance assessment system is one of the main functions of personnel management, since it induces the goal achievement of an organization and that of its employees to be consistent with each other. In order to improve the system, today's many corporations are eagerly focusing on the development of a new system. In the international environment where things are getting more and more competitive, it is imperative to procure a large number of qualified people. This is applied to not only private companies but also public corporations and organizations. A performance-related pay being part of the new system, it is to be applied to the current situation in Korea after combining American and Japanese styles with it. With the establishment of the performance-related pay system, the public servants whose status used to be very secure are now supposed to compete with one another, which causes the individual pay to differ regardless of the year when one starts to work or one's seniority. This system, however, is not perfectly apt to Korean culture of personnel management, since its Confucian tradition makes a conventional preference for an age-based pay system persistent and its members keep sharing profit without much competition amongst themselves. This study began by questioning the efficiency of the performance-related pay system to be applied to each level of job positions in a public organization. All of the government employees, from level 1 through 9, are currently affected by the performance-related pay system. It is quite hard, however, to assess the performance of the employees whose position is relatively low; the lower their job position is, the more amount of simplistic task they are given. And it is all the more difficult to assess their job performance, since the kind of work that they perform at low positions is quite similar, regardless of their job categories. As policies are made by the superior employees over level 5, the relatively inferior ones are supposed to conduct the task that was drafted in such a way. This study is thus based on the assumption that the level of satisfaction varies according to the job positions.
In Chapter 1, the objective of the study is presented in general terms, as well as its questions, scope and method. In Chapter 2, the main content of each variant is dealt with, based on theoretical backgrounds. In Chapter 3, the characteristics and current state of the performance-related pay system are examined generally, along with its problems; in Chapter 4, assumptions of this study are described; in Chapter 5, a positivist analysis is conducted. Finally, in Chapter 6, the meaning of this study is dealt with, based on its outcome in relation to previous studies. And some suggestions are presented for further studies.
The meaning of this study lies in analysing the satisfaction level of the performance-related pay system in a horizontal way, unlike the previous studies that applied the vertical analysis to it. By examining the applicability of the personnel management that divides superior job positions and inferior ones, this study will tentatively contribute to the establishment of the performance-related pay system.