병역애로 해소를 위한기업의 숙련유지 지원 방안 연구

Abstract

The military service is regarded as an important reason why industries avoid the employmentof male vocational high school graduates. The companies cannot establish a long-term humanresource planning for them and have skill maintenance due to their leave of absence for militaryservice. Then, the skill maintenance support of companies to mitigate skill loss becomes a seriousissue. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to suggest the measure to support skillmaintenance for companies by encouraging employees to return to the previous industries aftertheir military service. To achieve the research objectives, the study analyzed the labor market and conducted surveysto human resource managers as well as high school graduates who were working but did not havethe military service yet. The research findings showed that the manufacturing industry needs moreskill maintenance support than the non-manufacturing industry. In addition, companies indicatedthat the military service is a main difficult factor in skill maintenance. Moreover, the employeesperceived that the offers of allowance, mentoring, invitation for dinner, and job related informationpositively affect their intention to return to the company after a military service. Based on theresults of the study, several policy implications were suggested to support the skill maintenance inindustries.