우리나라 항만하역물류 효율화를 위한 항만하역노동 유연화전략

A Study on the Introduction of the Flexible Port Labor Supply System in Korean Ports

This study is to examine the strategies by which the flexible port labor supply system can be introduced in Korean ports. As the Korean government has a plan to decasualize the whole port workers step-by-step by 2004, so the appropriate decasualization scheme should be followed. The Korean government's plan to decasualize the port workers is based on the theory of ""labor market flexibility"". The labor market flexibility consists of the numerical flexibility, functional flexibility and wage flexibility. The numerical flexibility means the possibility for the enterprises to adjust rapidly the size of the force - i.e. to dismiss or layoff workers - in response to business considerations. The functional flexibility refers to job or task mobility within the enterprise (internal mobility). Flexibility in this regard implies such practice as multi-skilling and broad-banding, in essence allowing a given worker to perform more tasks. Wage flexibility means adapting wages to changing market conditions. Mention also may be made of mobility - both internal and external - as an element of flexibility. Internal mobility is directly related to functional flexibility in that it refers to the ease with which workers can shift form task to task or job to job. External mobility refers to the ease with which workers may shift from enterprise to enterprise. This study analyses the current state of the Korean port labor market flexibility and suggests the introduction of internal and functional flexibility scheme for the decasualization of the Korean port workers.