Abstract

In modern society, the human service field in social enterprise makes efforts to provide new products and better service to meet the diverse needs of client according to their increasing expectations for economic and social utility. The purpose of this research was to examine the status and working environment of social enterprise which has become popular for solution of human services, specially, to investigate the relationships between service orientation, job satisfaction, service commitment and pro-social service behavior. This research had 275 employees of social enterprises certified by Ministry of employment and labor located in Seoul, Gyunggi, Chungnam from 5nd of August to 20nd of September in 2013 for survey. For the statistical analysis, SPSS/PC Ver. 20.0 were used, factor analysis and other analysis such as reliability analysis, frequency analysis, correlation analysis and linear regression analysis accordingly were performed. Proven research result through these analysis are as follows: (a) service orientation was positively related to pro-social service behavior. In particular, the psychological empowerment influences pro-social behavior. In other words, employee’s empowerment in social enterprises influence service satisfaction of client and increases pro-social behavior. (b) job satisfaction and service commitment was positively related to pro-social service behavior. In particular, this study investigated the mediating effect of job satisfaction on the causal relationships between service orientation and pro-social service behavior. A critical review of available literature on the issues were presented and specific attention was paid to the mediating effect of job attitudes such as job satisfaction which might work in between service orientation and pro-social behavior. In this research, the higher the service orientation, increases the level of pro-social behavior.

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