Differences in Leaders' Followership in the KOREAN SECURTY POLICE Organization According to Gender and Age

Abstract

Purpose: In this study, the perception toward leaders' followership by gender and age was analyzed for police officers working at the security police organization, which are recognized as the most closed police organization among young or female police officers. And through this, we would like to discuss policy measures to create a security police organization with a new followership culture in line with the changing security environment. Method: In this study, 100 police officers working for the security police organization with experience in han-dling North Korean defector affairs were surveyed via self-administration method to analyze their perception to-ward leaders' followership according to gender and age. Results: According to the analysis, male security police officers are more positive about their leaders' follow-ership than female police officers for most of the questions that have been statistically significant in terms of gen-der. And in terms of age, most of the questions are considered to be more positive among older people, while among those who are in their 20s, there is a relatively high level of negative perception. When it comes to gender and age connections, men in their 50s and women in their 30s have the most positive attitude toward their lead-ers. Conclusion: In conclusion, the culture inside the security police organization should improve so that it can ac-tively accept female security police officers, who account for only 4.6% of the total police force, including external affairs police officers, and thus turn it into a security police organization where female police officers can fully demonstrate their potential and creativity. Second, in order to be reformed as a new security police organization in response to the rapidly changing security environment, a developmental organizational culture of the security police organization should be created, expanding the number of young security police officers, drawing fresh ide-as from them and making themselves leaders.