Employment Relations in South Korea, 2014 Evidence from Workplace Panel Surveys

Employment Relations in South Korea provides readers with an overarching view of Korean employment relations and insight into recent changes, and also to help the general public understand more easily the various phenomena and changes in Korean employment relations.

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. About the Study 2. Workplace and Worker Characteristics in Surveyed Workplaces PART II: THE MANAGEMENT OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONS 3. Human Resource Management 4. Wage Levels and the Management of Wages 5. Corporate Welfare as Depicted in the Workplace Panel Survey 6. The Labor Market and Industrial Relations for Non-Regular Workers PART III: COLLECTIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS 7. Analysis of the Functional Level of Labor Relations: Focusing on Wage and Collective Bargaining and Labor Disputes 8. Labor Unions and Industrial Relations 9. Industrial Relations in Non?Unionized Workplaces PART IV: WORK ORGANIZATION 10. Education/Training and Skill Formation 11. Workplace Innovation and the Work Process 12. Long Working Hours PART V: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION 13. Summary and Conclusion

The Korea Labor Institute (KLI) is a government-funded research organization whose founding mission is to support the government's labor policy-making and to contribute to the development of Korean society by studying and analyzing issues of employment and industrial relations. At a time when the Korean economy needs to overcome the aftermath of the global financial crisis and make another leap, there is an urgent need to address employment issues and review the current employment safety net. The KLI strives to preemptively present effective policy alternatives, based on an interdisciplinary approach, that can help mitigate the employment crisis.

Kiu Sik Bae is Director-General of the Labor Relations and Social Policy Research Division at the KLI. He holds a PhD in Industrial and Business Studies from the University of Warwick, UK.