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儒家传统与员工雇佣保障:文化的力量
Confucianism and Employees’ Job Security:The Power of Culture
【摘要】 文章从非正式制度视角考察儒家传统对企业雇佣策略和员工权益保障的影响。从2012年全国第十次私营企业抽样调查数据发现,儒家文化中"君子以义为利""博施于民而能济众"等思想显著影响了企业雇佣策略,提升了员工权益保障质量。具体来讲,企业所在地区儒家文化强度越大,其员工劳动合同签约率和社会保险购买率越高,员工培训投资力度越大,且更有可能设立工会。进一步检验表明,儒家文化改善员工雇佣保障的积极效果在"弱司法保护"地区表现更突出。这意味着儒家文化和司法保护两种不同力量在加强员工权益保护中有一定替代性功能。文章还发现,全球化竞争削弱了儒家文化对员工雇佣保障的积极作用。文章不仅从传统文化角度拓展了对新兴市场国家"弱制度"情境下员工权益保护影响因素的理解,也从微观企业层面深化了对儒家文化经济后果的理论认知。
【Abstract】 Employees’ job security is influenced not only by formal laws and regulations,but also by the traditional culture of the region. From the perspective of informal institution,this paper examines the influence of Confucianism and its recessive value criterion on enterprise employment strategy and employees’ rights and interests guarantee. Using Chinese historical classics and the 10th survey data of private enterprises in 2012,this paper finds that Confucian culture contains such thoughts as "gentlemen take justice for benefit""be generous to the people and be able to help the people",which have a significant impact on the employment strategy of modern enterprises. The value norms of "benevolence,righteousness,courtesy and faith"advocated by Confucian culture are conducive to improving the quality of employee rights and interests protection. Specifically,the contractual spirit constructed by the Confucian concept of good faith will improve the performance of enterprises in signing labor contracts and purchasing employee insurance;The Confucius thoughts such as "knowing things""being erudite and diligent" and "learning without weariness" can also obviously promote the investment of staff training and improve the quality of employment guarantee;The connotation of "benevolence" of Confucianism will urge enterprises to establish trade unions to protect the rights and interests of employees. The empirical results show that the greater the Confucian culture intensity in the region where the enterprise is located,the higher the signing rate of individual labor contracts of employees,and the higher the rate of purchasing medical insurance,endowment insurance,unemployment insurance,work-related injury insurance and maternity insurance for employees.At the same time,the investment of enterprise training measured by the proportion of trained employee number in total employee number is significantly higher,and enterprises in areas with higher Confucian cultural intensity are more likely to set up labor union organizations.As the degree of judicial protection varies in different regions of China,we also use the judicial civilization index provided by the Collaborative Innovation Center of Judicial Civilization to further test the regulatory effect of judicial protection. The empirical results show that the positive effect of Confucian culture in improving employees’ job security is more prominent in"weak judicial protection" areas. This means that the two different forces of Confucian culture and judicial protection have certain alternative functions in strengthening the protection of employees’ rights and interests. The lower the judicial civilization index is,the more obvious the promotion effect of Confucian culture on employees’ job security is.In the robustness test,we use the number of imperial examination scholars in Ming and Qing Dynasties to replace the original academies in Qing Dynasty to measure the strength of Confucian culture,and the empirical results still support the research hypothesis.
【Key words】 employees’ job security; Confucianism; judicial protection; informal institution;
- 【文献出处】 上海财经大学学报 ,Journal of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics , 编辑部邮箱 ,2020年01期
- 【分类号】G122;F272.92
- 【被引频次】9
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