Analysis of the managing contingent workers at an outsourcing system ¡VA case study of the China Steel Corporation and its subcontractors Abstract Nowadays, employment flexibility and Labor Cost Reduction are highly emphasized in the competitive business environment. As the job design becoming more and more specific and professional, the labor cost becoming higher and higher, companies cannot but change their operation style, and contingent workers have become an important source of competitive advantage. This case study was intended to understand the mutual relationship between China Steel Corporation and its subcontractors: why it uses subcontractors, and how it manages them. This study also explored the benefits and working conditions of contingent workers to find out the potential problems of outsourcing. This study has the following preliminary findings. First, Two factors are important determinants on outsourcing decisions: Strategically, the goal is to reduce labor cost and enhance the employment flexibility. Technically, the demand of professional skills, rudimentary skills and special facilities can be satisfied through outsourcing. Second, the relation between China Steel Corporation and its subcontractors has changed after its privatization. According to China Steel Corporation, their interaction has become better because of the flexibility gained after privatization (for example, the budget is no longer controlled by legislative yuan.) But from the subcontractors¡¦ point of view, their interaction has become more difficult because the elimination of their profit and increasing constraints on outsourcing projects. Third, the employees of China Steel Corporation enjoy better wages, benefits, working conditions and training opportunities than employees of subcontractors. Fourth, among the two kinds of employees of subcontractors¡Xpermanent and temporary¡X permanent employees have better wages than temporary ones. As for training, there is not much difference. Fifth, safety is the most serious problem on contingent workers management. The reasons include highly dangerous work environment, workers¡¦ unfamiliarity with the environment, and being recklessness about the work environment rules. One other important management issue for China Steel Corporation is that outsourcing does not necessarily reduce labor cost. High turnover rate among contingent workers and low quality resulting from insufficient skills are combined together to increase the labor cost of China Steel Corporation on supervision, coordination, and quality control. Key words: human resource management, contingent working arrangement, outsourcing, subcontractor, temporary workers.

This study focuses on contractors of petrochemical companies in Kaohsiung. It tries to understand the working conditions of contractors¡¦ workers and practices of human resource management of contractors. After interviewing and surveying to on-the-spot directors in petrochemical factories, contractors, and their employees, we found the following results: The characteristics of petrochemical factories using contractors are specialized field, labor service outsourcing, and regular practice. Short of labor and lack of specialization are the major reasons for using contractors. Advantages of using contractors for the most part are efficiency, employment cost, and employment flexibility. On the other hand, disadvantages are low safety consciousness, hard to manage, poor work quality, and high turnover rate of contractors' workers. On the working status of contractors, they undertake many contracted projects simultaneously, and deliver projects over to subcontractor (nearly 30%). The contents of contracted projects are extensive, and the main type is technical work (nearly 75%). Due to contracted periods differ in length, these projects are very unpredictable ,which pushes contractors employ temps to cope with high turnover rate. Contractors hire temps more than permanent workers on average (1.2 times). There are 80% contractors use temps, and the major reason is to meet working demand, the next is financial consideration. That temps have more variations on working contents and places reveals they face higher working uncertainties than permanent workers do. Besides, those temps' income source and average salary are lower than permanent significantly. That shows their economic pressure is higher. They have no job security, so their job satisfaction are lower, and attitude about future are pessimistic. This research also found that job functions, contracting experience, and contracting quantity of contractors would affect their tendency of using temps based on logistic regression analyses. On the human resource management aspects of contractors, most contractors use temps hiring as a way of screening and recruiting formal employees. It is different on recruiting temps and permanent workers. With regard to the source of temps, contractors mostly depend on social network; about 15% were through dispatching labor agency. The educational background of temps is lower, and contractors assign miscellaneous jobs to them mainly. Cleaning and carrying are the next. Most temps have worse fringe benefits (such as labor insurance, health insurance, group life insurance, working bonus, special vacations, etc.). There are 20%~30% workers of contractors have no labor and health insurance, and about 50 % workers have no accident insurance in this high risk area. Considering two facts about temps, high turnover rate and easiness of replacement, the job security of temps is worse. Overall, workers' conditions of contractors were not good at all in this study. It is obvious that they are in greet need of intervention and protection of government, especially in working conditions. On the aspect of risk of about occupational safety, petrochemical factories benefited from contracting but it also raise their safety risk. The accidental rate of contractors is 80%, and temps' is higher than permanent workers¡¦. This kind of fact is also shown in contractors' attitude. They think workers should be responsible for accident. This phenomenon reveal that labor safety and hygiene here is still worth striving.

¡iAbstract¡j The widespread wave of the liberalization in telecommunications followed the industrial country of England, America and Japan. The privatization of state-run business that liberalize the whole world market of telecommunications is popular in the world now. Lashed by the liberalization in telecommunications and the privatization of state-run business, our country passed the three major laws of telecommunications¡]the Telecommunication Act, the DGT Organizational Statutes, the Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. Statutes¡^, after three reading in The Legislative Yuan in 1996. The Directorate General of Telecommunications transform to Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. to provide telecommunications services in July 1st 1996. Closuring the double role of The Directorate General of Telecommunications in both sectors of peremptory services providing and administrator. Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd in order to turn their innovation into competitive acting in the industry tide of rapid development of computer and communication, and bruising competitive market, creating ¡§the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business by Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd ¡§, to attract and retain their knowledge worker, to lift the staff¡¦s job satisfaction, to carry the organization through, and built a brand new successful paragon. Further, this study also discusses about the problem in role cognitive conflict of staff diversity expectation by the company in the process of the privatization, for promoting the competitive ability of the company. If this role cognitive conflict problem will affect the organizational commitment made by staff to the company. Therefore, this study has taken Southern Branch of Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd as study interview, used probability proportionate to size, released 983 sets of questionnaires, got 587 sets of valid questionnaires, analyzed by statistics methods of t-test analysis of independence, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Pearson¡¦s product-moment correlation, and multiple regression. The result confirms several important discoveries as following: 1. As the staff perception in the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business, job satisfaction and organizational commitment, we can see that: (1). The higher perception in the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business staffs have, the more job satisfaction they will have. (2). The higher job satisfaction they have, the higher organizational commitment they will have to the company. (3). The higher perception in the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business staffs have, the higher organizational commitment they will have to the company. 2. There is a positive correlation in the staff perception in motivation by the system of human resource management in the privatization of state-run business and organizational commitment, and it also has high prediction. 3. Both well-paid and suitable working conditions and prospective promotion of job satisfaction have positive correlation and reached the level of significance. Thereamong, the former variable has major affection. 4. Job satisfaction has mediating effect between the staff perception to the human resource management system after the privatization of state-run business and organizational commitment. 5. Role cognitive conflict has no moderating effect between the staff perception to the human resource management system after the privatization of state-run business and organizational commitment. 6. According to the moderating effect of role cognitive conflict between the relationships of job satisfaction and organizational commitment in the study, the results are as following: (1). If the company can anticipate staff¡¦s need in the sectors of satisfied task autonomy, well-paid and suitable working conditions and prospective promotion, then the person who with higher role cognitive conflict in work to organizational commitment has higher identification of value than those who with lower role cognitive conflict in work to organizational commitment, and the people who with higher role cognitive conflict in labor relationship to the organizational commitment has higher identification of value and company than those who with lower role cognitive conflict in labor relationship to the organizational commitment. (2). To generalize the moderating effect of role cognitive conflict between the relationships of job satisfaction and organizational commitment, as long as applying the well management in the hope of pursuing elite success, role cognitive conflict could be positive and beneficent. Key words: human resource management, perception, job satisfaction, organizational commitment, role cognitive conflict.

As the business environment become more uncertain, many organizations look for ways to gain competitive advantage. Outsourcing has thus become one of the effective ways for them to become flexible and more high-performance organizations through outside experts partner to raise employee¡¦s performance to the level necessary for achieving business goals. The purpose of this research is to study the issue of training outsourcing, to forecast the factors that affect the decision to outsourcing and to examine how partnership, knowledge sharing, institutional and human resource management issues are involved in training outsourcing. In addition, this research also shows interests in the role and competence of human resource development. Using a samples form the member which was published by CPC in 2001. We test a set of hypotheses among the variables. The results show that small and medium growing companies have higher training needs in the human resource area. Additionally, using logistic regression we shows that firm size, capital intensity and foreign business are the most significant impact factors for the decision of training outsourcing. Furthermore, the impact of outsourcing decision in the future is then examined. Results indicated that time pressure, the roles of program designers and marketer, and the competencies of understanding related law, diagnose organization needs skills, control skill, communicate skill and plan to implement project skill are key predictor of outsourcing decision. Finally, the result of the regression analyses shows that partnership, knowledge sharing and institutionalization have significantly direct effect on outsourcing performance. Human resource management plays a significant and negotiation role to moderate the relationship with institutionalization and knowledge sharing and this relationship influences firm¡¦s performance.

Abstract The research of this project is to discuss the governmental enterprise¡¦s employee reaction when they are face the extremely change of the governmental company to become the privation. In this privatization process, the company have used the enterprise¡¦s re-engineering and change the human resource planning to fit the privatization. The object of this research is the Refinery Business Unit (RBU) of Chinese petroleum corp., the biggest governmental enterprise belongs to the Ministry of the Economic Affairs. In order to strengthen their competition, the Chinese Petroleum Corp. established the Refinery Business Unit at the end of the year 2000. They try to simplify and consolidate the organization and reorganize functional organization to business unit. The main purpose is hope that will be change the organizational culture, reduce the working process and revolute the employees mental. It also wish that re-engineering process which by through simplified the administrative levels and rationalized the human resources planning would produce enterprise¡¦s operation efficiently. The researcher is working in the Chinese Petroleum Corp. and have experienced in the establishment of RBU. After fully understanding the response of various levels of the employees to the human resource planning in this re-engineering process, he make the conclusion of the research is as following: 1. There is no significant difference among employees with different attributes against ¡§Manpower Transfer Planning¡¨. 2. There is no significant difference among employees with different attributes against ¡§Strengthening of Manpower Employment¡¨. 3. There is significant positive correlation between Manpower Transfer Planning and Strengthening of Manpower Employment as expressed by employees of different attributes. 4. Empirical outcomes of employees of different attributes toward the impact of Manpower Transfer Planning and Strengthening of Manpower Employment are: a. The manpower transfer and core manpower have significant positive impact. b. There is significant positive impact of human resources supply and demand adjustment and core manpower. c. There is significant positive impact of Manpower Supply and Demand Adjustment and manpower subject to transfer. d. There is significant positive impact of Manpower Supply and Demand Adjustment and Manpower to be developed.

Abstract The competitive market in 21 century is full of uncertainty. The needs of customers change fast as time, location, age, and feelings. Customers lead market. Successful business in uncertain environment must respect, understand, satisfy, and master customers. Only when business do well in CRM, and then customers can shop goods again. And public praise not only reduce the cost of marketing to open up new customers but also gain sales and profits. The culture of customer-oriented is the premise of CRM. Understand customers¡¦ needs, meet them, provide good service and process, make sure the safety convenience of deals. Because customers are satisfied and have high loyalty, it can produce the beneficial result of CRM. Building HR effective management is from the business culture of customer-oriented in competitive age. And HRD is more important than assets. Information resource has become a part of life for people. Business managers should consider how to use information resource and technology ability well. Let these tools help employees provide better services to customers. By doing this we can increase sales profits, raise customer loyalty, and reduce business cost. The results of research are as follows¡G 1.HRM activities and the beneficial result of CRM have significant relation. 2.To HRM activities and the beneficial result of CRM, some parts of COC are mediators. 3.HRM activities and the culture establishing of customer-oriented have significant relation. 4.Technology skills¡Bculture of customer-oriented and CRM have moderator situation. 5.Information resource¡Bculture of customer-oriented and the beneficial result of CRM have moderator situation.

As industries have been changed, enterprises are facing more fierce competitions. Human Resource Management has been gradually taken seriously. HR professionals can assist enterprises in building reasonable internal systems to promote employee performance and further overall organizational performance. This study aims at exploring the influence of Human Resource Management strategy on organizational commitment and job performance. The results from the analysis of influence are offered as references for enterprises in planning and implementing Human Resource Management strategies. 270 questionnaires were distributed and 241 ones were collected. The overall response rate is 89%. 20 invalid questionnaires were deleted. The response rate of valid questionnaires is 81%. The regression analysis was adopted. The research results are as follows: I.The influence of Human Resource Management strategies on organizational commitment is positive. II.The influence of Human Resource Management strategies on job performance is positive. III.The influence of organizational commitment on job performance is positive and Human Resource Management strategies have partial moderation effects on job performance.

The reason of discussing the influences of Law of the PRC on Employment Contracts is, pursuing the economical growth has been the main development policy from the beginning of the reforming and opening up of China. However, the derivative labour problems are getting worse. Although the PRC government passed the Labour Law of the People's Republic of China in 1995, the execution of the Law achieved little, resulting in more labour-management problems instead. For this purpose, the PRC government passed the Law of the People's Republic of China on Employment Contracts in 2007, expecting to eliminate the situation of long-term ignorance and violation of labour rights. The Law has great influences on employers in China such as decreased employing flexibility and increased operating costs. Therefore, this research intends to comprehend the influencing coverage of the Law of the PRC on Employment Contracts through investigating the Law¡¦s legislative background and its legal meaning, and adjusting future human resource systems and positioning human resource management strategies for the enterprises according to their influenced coverage. During the research process, I have consulted a large quantity of documents related to the Law and news regarding enterprises¡¦ reaction toward it. Through collecting, analyzing related documents, and interviewing cases, I found that the Law insists much on recording and reserving anything regarding labour rights in written form during the operating processes of enterprises. Besides, other influences toward enterprises including the changing of cost structures, especially the law violation costs. For example, enterprises do not have probation period, dismissing employees illegally, or the expending of economical compensation and so forth. In addition, I also found that the regulation of the open-ended employment contracts and granting the economical compensation influence enterprises fairly much. However, the two above regulations are complements of each other. The purpose of the legislation is to let enterprises and employees built long-term and stable labour-management relations. At last, I discovered that in the future, enterprises need to change the passed attitude of dealing with labour-management relations when facing the Law. They have to pay more attention on details when operating company, especially when dealing with affairs about labour rights. For example, they have to notice the details of the design of appraisal system, improving staff training, modifying the company¡¦s rules and regulations, and the new employee recruitment and so forth. To conclude, in the future, enterprises have to take a more reciprocal attitude when facing labours and managing labour relations.

As the tendency of globalizes and regionalization of enterprise management develops, enterprises in the world have to face an extremely important subject of multiple human resource management. Whether the enterprise is classified as globalize, cross-nation or regionalization, it should face and plan the strategy of its human resource management more appropriately, which is the core part and the foundation of an enterprise. The range and object of this research is based on Taiwan High Speed Rail Corporation and its employees. The company, THSRC, is one of the largest BOT projects in the world. Employees of THSRC with their profession in construction management, operation management at railway area, were recruited from many different countries. The research of investigating the manage method and organization climate of THSRC, can surely provide a great reference to some regional enterprises during the process of transit to globalized enterprises. The purpose of this research is trying to examine the relationships among the perceptions of human resource management practice, organizational climate, role adjustment, and working attitude. Also, this research intends to investigate the affection of differenct personalities to human resource management practice, organizational climate, role adjustment, and working attitude. The questionnaire survey of this research was implemented on April 2008. 300 questionnaires were sent out, and 272 were replied, in which 256 are valid. Through a statistical analysis, we conclude the research result as follows: 1.The human resource management practice has a positive affection on working attitude. 2.The human resource management practice has a negative affection on role adjustment. 3.The organizational climate has a negative affection on role adjustment. 4.The role adjustment has a negative affection on working attitude.

When the global financial crisis struck, the economic downturn, the phenomenon of lay-offs continue, the survival of enterprises and the problems faced by employees¡CPeople have lost confidence in the leaders .The subject of talent issues become into a business topic. What are the specifications of talent ? What can be predicted effectively work or context or the reference standard for outstanding workers? Some scholars have pointed out the competency can provide as media between strategy and human resource management activities. Data from the study found the area of Taiwan's current competency are concentrated in certain special duties, management level or scale of the establishment of specific Competency, but Competency for the business development background, pre-assessment, the import process, human resource practice, as well as assessment of the overall study is considerable proportion of the minority. Therefore this study were funded with the field of human resource, associations and consultants recommend the practice of competency or the effectiveness of a reputation for a sample case study. Through the practical application of business competency to explore and understand each case whether there is common or similar factors, and the implementation , application, conversion and other experience sharing, research and development competency in order to promote the practical value of the field and help those are interested in the future or into the competency of the difficulties now facing into the direction of the business guidelines. The results of this study show that: 1. Cases of human organizations in general are facing the issue of restructuring. Organizations in response to changes in the external environment, which are facing rapid growth or a merger of human re-engineering issues, have decided to choose the competency to solve the issue of talents in short-term or long-term planning of human resources. 2. For handling competency project, the input and investment to the human resources executives, depending on the support of chief executive in charge of the attention the extent of funding, communication objects and into the depth of the breadth of the scale, but with the company scope are not directly related to the scale. 3. The construction of the core competency and managerial competency model is used to the majority of cases , the main way to construct is carrying out a large number of interviews and meetings to high-level consensus. 4. The implementation of competency could be divided into the promotion of nature and linkage of human resource system. Comprehensive approach would be funded by the people planning the internal marketing activities, training activities to experience the competency carried out to collect examples of behavior sample to promote the human resource system. 5. Competency in the recruitment selection, training and evaluation of all cases of the competency generally used in surface structure, showing the practical application of these three is also the most popular. Career development and successors funded in comparison to others used less practical. One of the Consultant is the only one among the of the sample which adopts the competency-based payment. 6. The feedback Competency of the effectiveness of the use of a wide range of dimensions can be quantified in practice get a small number of indicators, such as improved retention rates or a decline in turnover rate, or most other acts of bias and cultural face and the impact surface. 7.Through the implementation, the general reaction feedback from staff are normally in ifficulty of the recognition and identification, even in the assessment took place with the staff in charge of the issue of cognitive differences. Cases suggested that a solution can be sustained and effective marketing activities or competency of the depth of training experience to lead the communication stage. 8. The support of executives of all companies surveyed unanimously agreed that an important key factor. Most other cases the company generally agreed that there are the success factors: choice of the competency of the application of tools and consultancy firms, as well as easy to understand the behavior described in the follow-up to facilitate communication, as well as HR need to have a good attitude and can adhere to the communication, continuous input and implementation. View from the case studies ,link the competency model to the human resources function, we can see based on the concept of competency has been greatly to replace the traditional job-based human resources management activities. Keywords: Competency, Competency model, Competency assessment, Human resource management activities