인문,사회과학편 : 한국 프로야구 연봉조정 제도의 문제점 및 개선 방안 연구 = A Study on the Problems and Improvement Measures of the Annual Salary Arbitration System of Korea Professional Baseball

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

This study began with the fundamental desire to help professional baseball players have a fair and equal salary negotiation with the club. For that purpose, it compared the Korea's professional baseball and American major league in the procedures and decisions of salary systems and investigated the former’s salary arbitration system to improve and complement its unreasonable management. The findings were as follows; they had 2,637 applications for salary arbitration, among which 2,177 were canceled and 460 led to decisions in the American major league. The final decisions revealed that the clubs won in 263 cases, while the players did in 197, which was translated into the ratio of 57%: 43%. In Korea the total applications recorded 92, among which 74 were canceled and 18 produced decisions. The clubs won in 17 cases, while only one player beat the club. The ratio was 94%:6%. The following measures should be taken in order to allow the current unfair salary arbitration system to produce another lopsided victory for the dub no longer; first, it's urgent to pick members of the arbitration committee in a fair manner. The committee should consist of one arbitrator from each the player" s association and the club and a neutral member recommended by KBO and consented by both the parties. Secondly, a proxy system that fits Korea’s professional baseball should be established. Since they don’t allow for a proxy for the players, they have to go out in the front line of salary arbitration themselves, which affects their performance in a negative way and damages their image and commercial value. Their loss will be ultimately the entire KBQs loss. Thirdly, with the introduction of a proxy, a hearing system should be in the scene of salary arbitration. They need to hold one or more hearings during 15 days of arbitration period so that the arbitrators can listen to the concerned parties and proxies fully and have enough time to review the related matters and documents just like the one in the American major league. The final result will be fair decisions. Fourth, the standards of annual salary assessment must be dualized into those for the earner of high annual salary and those for the earner of general annual salary.