This study analyzed the impact of sense of self-efficacy on job satisfaction and organizational commitment among technical designers in order to acquire information needed for human resources management in the field of technical design. The study was implemented through a normative-descriptive survey method using a questionnaire. The sample consisted of 217 technical designers working at vendors and agents located in Seoul. The results revealed that there were significant differences in the sense of self-efficacy levels among technical designers according to age and work experience. Personal self-efficacy had a positive influence on both intrinsic and extrinsic job satisfaction, but also on affective, continuance, and normative organizational commitment. In addition, personal self-efficacy had a greater influence on extrinsic job satisfaction than social self-efficacy. Both personal and social self-efficacy influenced continuance commitment while there was no relationship between social self-efficacy and affective organizational commitment. However, a clear relationship was found between both social and personal self-efficacy and normative organizational commitment. Nevertheless, social self-efficacy had a greater influence on normative organizational commitment than personal self-efficacy. This fact demonstrates the need to exert more effort to promote the sense of personal self-efficacy of technical designers. These results could be used to provide appropriate proposals for human resources management in the field of technical design.

The primary purpose of this study is to examine empirically the effect of the organizational characteristics in the vessel with foreign crews on their self-efficacy and organization commitment. Currently, the restrictions on the employment of the foreign crews are being eased in the Korean shipping industry and many problems are occurring consequently. However, specific and empirical studies on the relevancy of organizational characteristics to the crew's self-efficacy and organizational commitment on board the vessels with combined crews have not yet been carried out. To solve these problems, we examined how the organizational characteristics such as communication and leadership trust of different language and culture related to vessels with combined crews influence on the self-efficacy, job satisfaction and organizational commitment of the foreign crews through SEM analysis. According to the results, hypothesis 1, 2 and 3 were all supported with statistical significance. That means that communication and leadership trust of the vessel with foreign crew had positive effects on their self-efficacy and that such self-efficacy also had a positive effect on the organizational commitment and job satisfaction. To conclude, this study suggests that foreign crew's self-efficacy should be firstly enhanced in order to improve organizational commitment on the vessel with combined crews. Furthermore, studies on self-efficacy of foreign crew's organization are urgently needed to enhance the effectiveness of an organization in a vessel with combined crews that has special environment - working environment with depression and uneasiness due to the exposure to the different language and culture, and excessive stress from the social and psychological adaptation. Therefore, an attempt of this study is considered to be timely since there has not been a study on this subject so far and result of this study will contribute a lot to the organization management of a vessel with combined crews.

본 연구의 일차적인 목적은 외국인 혼승선박에서의 문화적 특성이 자기효능감과 조직 커미트먼트에 미치는 영향을 실증적으로 검토하는데 있다. 현재, 해운산업에 있어서 외국인 선원 고용제한이 완화되고 있는 가운데, 혼승에 따른 많은 문제점이 발생하고 있음에도 불구하고, 외국인 선원 혼승선박의 문화적 특성이 선박구성원으로서의 자기효능감과 선박조직의 커미트먼트와 어떠한 관련성을 가지는가에 관한 구체적인 연구가 이루어지지 않고 있는 실정이다. 이러한 연구문제를 해결하기 위해서 본 논문에서는, 외국인 선원 혼승선박의 문화적 동질성 제고와 관련된 이문화 수용과 적응 등의 문화적 특성이 외국인 선원의 자기효능감에 어떠한 영향을 미치며 나아가 직무만족 및 조직몰입과 같은 조직커미트먼트에 어떠한 영향을 미치는가를 구조방정식모형분석을 통하여 실증적으로 검증하였다. 분석결과 연구가설이 모두 채택되어, 혼승선박 내 외국인 선원의 문화적 동질성을 제고하여 자기효능감을 높이는 것이 혼승선박조직의 조직커미트먼트를 개선하는 것이 바람직하다는 것을 보여 주고 있다. 더욱이, 혼승선박과 같은 특수 환경 조직의 유효성을 제고하기 위해서는 자기효능감에 관한 연구가 필요하며, 본 연구결과는 혼승선박 조직관리에 있어서 그 공헌도가 매우 높을 것으로 판단된다.