Using Human Capital Corporate Panel Survey(HCCP) data carried out by Korea Research Institute for Vocational Education & Training in 2007, this study investigates the effect of human resource practices on job satisfaction and organizational commitment of R&D personnels in Korean firms. HCCP survey data is unique firm-employee data and our final sample is composed of 1,132 R&D personnels in 272 firms.
We found that team work, training and development, and group performance pay were positively related with both job satisfaction and organizational commitment of R&D personnels, but we did not find significant association between individual performance pay and the attitudes of R&D personnels. We compared the effects of human resource practices with non R&D personnels such as general management and marketing department, and we found that the above results were quite unique to R&D personnels.