中小企業과 生産性向上

Small Business and Improvement of Productivity

Small business firms have influenced on the growth of our national economy. by taking various roles of extending the opportunity of employment, encouraging the emergence of middle-income class as a social stability-seeking-group, and contributing to the development of local communities. cooperating with large scale business firms. Considering these important aspects of small business firms in Korea. this study is to analysis the various problems which small businesses confront with, and to invastigate the proper ways to improve productivity for the development of small business firms. The efforts to improve the productivity of small business firms in turn, can be resulted in a contribution to level up the quality of our industrial society. Nowadays the problems related with productivity is no longer regarded as the matters confined restrictively to the production activities, but recognized as a wide-spread spirit or belief prevailing from distribution. consumption and all the other economic activities to politic, cultural activities. The fundamental problems transmitted inherently in small businesses in Korea are as follows : Lack of managerial ability Unstable Labor-Management relationship Lack of financial planning and controlling ability Disadvantage of facility location Lack of awareness of the importance of productivity Subordinated relationship to large business firms Deterioration of profitibility To overcome these problems, it should be emphasized that small business firms give a major efforts to improve productivity first of all. For solving these problems. First, the cooperative relationships between labor and management have to be established. Second, it should be noted that without the improvement of productivity. nothing can be shared by or distributed to both sides of employee and management. Third, the organizing and coordinating is needed between the department dealing of the planning, coordinating, controlling of producivity improvement aggregately under the corperate level, and the departments charging of the actual operation for the stated goals. Forth, the effort for improving productivity should be proceeded through the proper methods of considering the various aspects of business firms, such as size of business, type of production, capability of production. Fifth, the managers of small business firms must give the continuous efforts to the rationalization of management for improving productivity. Improvement of productivity and rationalization of management have been pointed out as the one of essential problems for small business to overcome. The performance of productivity improvement cannot be done by a certain factor, but is resulted outcomes from the complex functioning between the various related factors to productivity.