A Study on the Effect of Work-Life Balance on Organizational Effectiveness of Coast Guard Officer Working on Vessel: Focusing on the effect of controlling Job Stress

Abstract

Korea's sovereign sea is about 4.5 times the size of the land. In order to play such a vast security area, the coast guard operate ships. Coast guard officers must overcome their fragile working conditions, including the psychological atrophy of being at sea, the dangers of working at sea, the narrow work place of vessel, high noise, motion sickness, shift work, and isolation from family and society for a certain period of time. In this study, we examined how the work-life balance of coast guard officials working in vessel affects organizational effectiveness, and furthermore, we empirically analyzed what regulatory effects job stress has. The results of the study are as follows. First, it was found that work growth balance and work-family balance, which are the components of work-life balance of coast guard officials working in vessels, had a positive(+) effect on job satisfaction and organizational commitment, which are sub-factors of organizational effectiveness. Second, it is the result of analyzing whether the ultimate goal of this study, the work-life balance of coast guard officials working in vessels, has a moderating effect of job stress in affecting organizational effectiveness perception. First, as a result of analyzing the moderating effect of job stress in the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment, job stress in the relationship between job satisfaction and organizational commitment was found to have a negative(-) moderating effect.