The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between certain aspects of vocational choice and certain non-intellectual personal characteristics.

With Taiwan¡¦s accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), foreign-based oil manufacturers will join, in succession, the motor oil market in Taiwan. This will definitely push further the competition for business that has been made intense by a large number of domestic manufacturers. Therefore, it will be necessary to analyze consumers¡¦ behavior in buying motor oil in order to promote and sell this product. This research examined consumers¡¦ sex, age, education, occupation, and monthly income and investigated whether differences in these factors would lead to significant differences in suggestions and perception, in methods of collecting information and the degree of involvement in the evaluation of plans, and in post-purchase satisfaction and loyalty of reference groups related with motor oil products and prices under different situations. Drivers of small cars registered with Kaohsiung County and Kaohsiung City were, based on convenient sampling, taken as the subjects that received questionnaire survey. The collected data underwent statistical procedures and analysis, and conclusions and suggestions were drawn and put up to be adopted by concerned enterprises to maintain their market shares and even enhance their competitive edge. The research has obtained findings and offered suggestions that follow: ¤@¡BFindings: ¡]¤@¡^¡BFemales are more likely than their male counterparts to purchase products at bargain prices, and when they are satisfied with the quality of a motor oil product, they are more likely to purchase the same product in the future. ¡]¤G¡^¡BConsumers younger than 30 are more likely to purchase products at bargain prices and more heavily influenced by price suggestions offered by others. ¡]¤T¡^¡BConsumers with college or graduate education are more heavily susceptible to positive remarks than to negative remarks. These consumers consider products to be better in quality if their manufacturers provide better product information. They are more likely to buy motor oil products that have been advertised and promoted in humorous term ¡]¥|¡^¡B Consumers that are engaged in manufacturing have better chance to purchase products at bargain prices. They are more likely to purchase the products that they have used and felt good about the quality and price. On the other hand, if they are not satisfied in these two areas, they will be very likely to switch to other products. ¡]¤­¡^¡BIn purchasing a motor oil product at bargain prices, consumers with low income are more concerned about the evaluation of this product after using it. ¤G¡BSuggestions: ¡]¤@¡^¡BOil manufacturers should enhance their R & D capability, increase the popularity of their products, appeal to customers in humorous ways, and pack products properly and offer them at competitive prices. ¡]¤G¡^¡BOffer various sources of information about products to which consumers have easy access, and gain consumers¡¦ satisfaction with product quality and price so as to win their loyalty.

Due to the trend of economic globalization, the new challenge that companies are facing when pursuing growth is the need of internationalization talented persons. To maintain the best competitiveness of organization, the key point lies in looking for the most talented employee. How to choose talented persons multi-nationally and how to train internationalization talented persons is one of the keys for the existence of modern enterprises. The ¡§Expatriate¡¨ so called in this study means the one sent by the company to work in the country or area outside homeland. They are likely to be employees with the nationality of their parent company or third country. However, they must be the appropriate and trustworthy middlemen chosen by their parent company. How do enterprises choose such expatriates? What kind of characteristics should successful expatriates have in competence for their tasks? Herein, this study starts from personality and targets on expatriates to probe into the relationship among personality, cultural intelligence and entrepreneurship. The raw data for further research has 2 parts: pre-survey and formal survey. While Convenience Sampling Method was taken, the researcher picked particular interviewees, delivered the questionnaires, and invited for more interviewees to join. Since the objects are geographically wide-spreaded among the world, the survey forms were distributed through the Internet. 260 copies were sent, and 230 recovered. 88% recovery rate has been obtained. Through the statistics methodology, the variables were defined and calculated. The internal relationships among the variables were explored through tools of descriptive statistics, Pearson analysis, SEM model and Variance analysis. The conclusions are as following: 1. There is a positive and significant correlation between the personality and Cultural Intelligence. Stronger ¡§Extraversion¡¨ personality has highest CQ. Comes the ¡§Openness to Experience,¡¨ then the ¡§Agreeableness¡¨. 2. It is obviously positive and significant correlation between personality and entrepreneurship. People with strong ¡§Openness to Experience¡¨ attitude bear stronger willness and capability on entrepreneurship. Follows the ¡§Extraversion,¡¨ then the ¡§Agreeableness¡¨. 3. CQ is obviously positive and significant correlated to entrepreneurship. People with higher CQ bears better capability on entrepreneurship. 4. The study also discovered that the personality has obvious positive influence on entrepreneurship, directly and indirectly. That is, the personality of dispatched personnel would enhance individual entrepreneurship, via the interaction of higher CQ. 5. Personal attributes (e.g. gender, marital status, age, nationality, education level, reason for dispatch, company scale and industry nature) shall play a significant variant role as personality, CQ and entrepreneurship level.

Online learners bring varied learning experiences depending on their different personal characteristics and traits. This descriptive and correlational study explored students\' online satisfaction in relation to their locus of control orientation and their personal characteristics including gender, age, ethnicity, and online learning experiences. Responses were collected from students in an online course at Virginia Tech. Descriptive statistics, Pearson correlations and Multiple Linear Regression methods were used to detect the correlations and analyze the relationships among different variables. Results of the study did not find correlations between students\' online satisfaction and their locus of control, as well as their personal characteristics. The results also showed that students\' locus of control and personal characteristics did not contribute to students\' online satisfaction. / Ph. D.

The problem of this study was twofold: first, to determine what personal and social characteristics of normal American preadolescent children are revealed in research studies completed since 1950; and, second, to integrate this research into a pattern from which implications could be drawn for use by persons who work with preadolescents.

The major purposes of this study are described as follows: (1) to determine if education majors, classified according to grade-level preference (elementary), subject-matter concentration (secondary), and sequential stage in the teacher education program, differ significantly in certain teaching-related personal and social characteristics; (2) to determine if estimates of certain teaching-related personal and social characteristics of education majors, classified according to grade-level preference (elementary) and subject-matter concentration (secondary) tend to form intercorrelated families of characteristics; (3) to determine if elementary and secondary education students at progressive stages in the teacher education sequence tend to become more or less like experienced teachers comprising the Basic Analysis Sample of the Teacher Characteristics Study.

State federal vocational rehabilitation (VR) agencies are one of the most wide spread and oldest programs designed to help individuals with disabilities. Currently, VR agencies provide various services designed to aide individuals with disabilities obtaining and maintaining employment. Currently, VR agencies serve approximately 1 million individuals with disabilities and spend about 3 billion dollars annually. Given how large and the amount of state and federal dollars are spent on VR, it is important that the outcomes of this program are researched and evaluated. The purpose of this study was to examine how different variables are related to VR outcomes across states. More specifically, this study utilized the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a framework to study how contextual factors such as personal characteristics, agency level factors, and state-economic variables impact the employment rate of three different groupings based on state VR agency performance. This study utilized secondary data analysis to explore these relationships using the FY 2013 RSA-911 dataset was paired with the 2013 American Community Survey (ACS). Multiple regression analysis was used to investigate the relationships that exist between personal characteristics and state economic factors across the VR performance groups. Further, a hierarchical linear model (HLM) was used to investigate how the relationship between personal level characteristics and state economic variables may be influenced by investigating this data by considering the levels of the agencies. Results of this study revealed that agency-level factors and state economic variables are important predictors of the employment rate. The final model of the HLM found that state economic variables and agency-level factors moderate the relationship between personal characteristics and the employment rate. Further, all agency-level factors and state economic variables except poverty resulted in a significant relationship regarding the employment rate. In this final model, none of the personal characteristics were significant. The results of the multiple regressions revealed different relationships exist among personal characteristics, agency-level factors, and state economic variables and employment rate given the performance group.

Expatriates are the representative of parent companies in overseas subsidiaries. Expatriates¡¦ stress would impact to both company and their personal life. To help multinational companies decrease work stress of expatriates and manage work stress problem, the objective of this research is to find personal characteristic factors affecting work stress of overseas expatriates in Thailand. The questionnaires were distributed to 120 respondents, valid samples are 105 persons. The finding shows that there is no significantly different in work stress between male and female expatriates, divorced respondents have work stress more than single and married group, elder expatriates more concern with stressors than younger expatriates, and stressor caused stressful to managers more than officers. ¡§Lack of training¡¨ and ¡§reward and compensation¡¨ are stressors respondents most concern. Therefore, supporting and training program are the things that expatriates expect from parent company. To decrease expatriates¡¦ work stress, company should provide pre and post departure program, language training program, and prepare suitable facilities to fit expatriates needs during their overseas assignments.

The Effects of Career Anchor, Personal Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Turnover Intention of the Managing Staff in the Service Industry. Abstract According to not only the frequent communication between Mainland China and Taiwan, but also the advanced development of international enterprise, the structure of industries in Taiwan has been put into changes. The traditional industries are moving out due to the increasing cost, so that which business can stay in Taiwan ? That will be the service industry and the R&D department. The purpose of this study is to explore the correlation among Career Anchor, Personal Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, and Turnover Intention of the managing staff in the service industry. Based on 171 questionnaires collecting from more than 50 service companies in Taiwan, this research finds several important results. Findings¡G ¡]1¡^ Biographical Characteristics will have the significant influence in Career Anchor, Personal Characteristics, Job Satisfaction ,and Turnover Intention. ¡]2¡^ Job Satisfaction has the significant influence in Turnover Intention. ¡]3¡^ Different Career Anchor has found the positive relationships with Turnover Intention . ¡]4¡^ Different Career Anchor has found the positive relationships with Job Satisfaction ¡]5¡^ Employees with different Biographical Characteristics and Job Satisfaction have found the positive relationships with Turnover Intention . ¡]6¡^ Employees with different Biographical Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, and Personal Characteristics have found the positive relationships with Turnover Intention. ¡]7¡^ Employees with different Biographical Characteristics, Job Satisfaction, Career Anchor and Personal Characteristics have found the positive relationships with Turnover Intention. According to the results of this research, the suggestions to service industry: (1) Choose the right people in the right position based on their Career Anchor and Personal Characteristics. (2) Emphasize on the dimensions of employees¡¦ Job Satisfaction. (3) Stress the importance of the environment in service industry

Medical service institutions and medical service types of Taiwan have experienced fundamental changes since the implementation of national health insurance. Therefore, the organizational vision and culture of a hospital and the professional commitment of doctors are critical in the hospital¡¦s ability to survive in the existing health environment. Among these factors, organizational human resources play the most important role, and doctors constitute the foremost human resources in a hospital. In recent years, armed forces hospitals have implemented programs to trim organization, leading to the further reduction of medical physicians. Moreover, the health environment external to armed forces hospitals has changed and wooed more medical officers from these hospitals. Therefore, it is the major purpose of this research to understand how to increase organizational loyalty of military physicians. This research examined factors that influence organizational commitment from dimensions including vision of organization, culture of organization, and career development and personal characteristics of doctors, and investigated the relationships of these dimensions with organizational commitment. Members on the military physicians at Armed Forces Tsoying General Hospital were targeted the population, and the research has resulted in findings as follows: (1) Among personal characteristics (of military physicians), only the variables of age and seniority made significant differences to the commitment to retention in organizational commitment; only unit of work made significant differences to effort commitment; and others made no significant differences to retention and effort commitment. (2) There existed a significant positive correlation between organizational vision and commitment to organization. (3) There existed a significant positive correlation between organizational culture and organizational commitment. (4) There existed a significant positive correlation between career development of employees and commitment to organization. This research has come up with two suggestions that follow: I. To high-level manager of armed forces hospitals: 1. Strengthen commitment to retention of junior military physicians. 2. Enhance military physicians¡¦ participation in planning for organizational vision. 3. Assist military physicians in job and personal development planning. II. To follow-up researchers: 1. Select different research variables. 2. Increase variable factors. 3. Draw samples from different populations. Keyword: Vision, commitment, health environment, personal characteristics, military physician