한국의 장관은 정치가인가 행정가인가: 장관 리더십에 대한 근거이론 적용 = Is the Korean Minister a Politician or an Administrator? Application of Grounded Theory to Ministerial Leadership

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

Ministers have dual roles as political appointees and organizational managers. This study defined four consecutive governments, from the Kim Young-Sam administration to the Lee Myung-Bak administration, as post-democratization and analyzed the leadership of Korean ministers. The ministerial leadership reflects political and administrative attributes, in that political and social environments and the needs of the time form the conditions for political appointments. For this reason, the researcher conducted in-depth interviews with six minsters and one vice-minister who were appointed from the outside after democratization. This study then applied grounded theory and constructed a paradigm model for ministerial leadership. Results of analysis showed that a core category of ministerial leadership is the wind of change and that ministers pursue an ideal as politician while using the strategies as administrators. In addition, ministerial leadership is categorized as relationship-oriented, organization-oriented, policy-oriented, or externally-oriented depending on the objects the ministers seek to change. This study has significance in that it empirically an alyzesministerial leadership based on the experiences of former ministers, and proposes unique characteristics of ministers who are on the border of politics and administration.