The research of Employee Assistance Programs in Taiwan with employees' attitude and organization performance Abstract After industrial revolution in the early 19th century, Tailor's working-time study regarded men as a portion of machinery and developed Z-thesis from X & Y-thesis for men part in business management. Nowadays the human resource management in Taiwan is based on men because of high population density and policies of our government that has been implementing nine-year national education throughout the country. Besides, the development and increasing of the professional universities also educate al lot of people with professions in various fields. It makes Taiwan become one of the most important Chinese human resources center. However, facing to a great deal of internationalized impact for getting into WTO, all our industries consider the way to handle for the situation changes a lot day by day. Though the enterprises get advancement in competitiveness of their business, many problems are brought to the employees under the stress in the workplace. Those problems cannot be resolved by enterprises' welfare committee or by labor union. In addition to the rapid growth of the economy in Taiwan, the industrial society also has been changed at speed. The enhancement of personal value makes employees not only pay attention to how good their welfare is and how much salary is, also if the workplace is comfortable , safe, and full of peaceful and pleasant atmosphere which will influence their working emotion. They also consider the harmony in society and in family. Therefore, enterprises should take measures to keep their employees physically and mentally healthy, according to the employees various needs. Definition of EAPs offer employers an alternative in confronting job performance problems in the workplace. Employee assistance programs are worksite-based programs designed to assist in the identification and resolution of productivity problems associated with employees impaired by personal concerns including, but not limited to: health, marital, family, financial, alcohol, drug, legal, emotional, stress, or other personal concerns which may adversely affect employee job performance. In 1981, the local enterprises started to establish the model of 'Labor Guidance and Assistance" to execute "Employee Counseling Issue" the so-called industrial social work. Before this, the content of the industrial social work was based on the items of safety and sanitation, labor insurance, labor education, professional training, entertainment, and labor services etc. But the professional thesis and skills of social work were not applied to these assistance items. Thus, our Labor Committee introduced EAPs to the local enterprises in 1985 and helped them to establish employees assistance systems of EAPs. The current problems that Taiwanese labors meet are: (1)Lower employed (2)Shortage of basic labor (3)The job-switching problem of the excessive manpower from agricultural and industrial department (4)The management problem of foreign labors (5)Second career problem for middle aged and old people Besides, local employees counseling is always considered to be the conflict between labor and capitalist, which is different from EAPs. EAPs take employees' personal problems as a part of organization management responsibility. However, this kind of research is seldom discussed by local enterprises. The major study of purpose were follows: 1.To discuss the present situation in business carrying out EAPs, and the employees' requirements and satisfaction degree on the programs. 2.The EAPs models are carried out continuously in business and improvement will be reached, according to employees' requirements and satisfaction degree on them. 3.Questionnaire investigations on EAPs basic service items are taken to be the reference for redesign and execution the programs in HRM department to meet employees' requests on work, life, health, and welfare. 4.To study the relation among organization performance, organization commitment, and HRM system when EAPs are carried out in business. The findings of the study : The sequence of requirement is (work assistance programs), (management assistance programs), (life assistance programs), (other assistance programs). The sequence of satisfied degree is (life assistance programs), (work assistance programs), (other assistance programs), (counsel service fashion), (management assistance programs), (healthy assistance programs), (organization performance), (organization commitment). The result reveals that carrying out EAPs will help employees work steadily in business. Besides, to enhance productivity, to reduce work accident, to lower absence from work, to avoid switching job, and to improve harmony in working place will reach organization performance and strengthen employees' commitment to the organization.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-29T15:08:55Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 tese_6925_Dissertacao Mariana Castro.pdf: 1985509 bytes, checksum: 30794e58d0e5ce51caddbe95414e7875 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-10-18 / A presente dissertação analisou quatro principais práticas performáticas de Michael Dorsey, personagem principal do filme Tootsie (interpretado pelo ator Dustin Hofmann), destacando essas performances, no que tange à questão de gênero na situação comunicativa. O interesse nesse estudo surgiu quando constatamos que, para produzir o filme, foi preciso um estudo científico sobre o assunto. A justificativa do trabalho está no fato de a autora, Lillian Glass, ajudar Dustin Hoffman a performatizar uma mulher. Buscamos, então, subverter o que Glass (1992) estabelece, discutindo a noção de gênero, desde o paradigma da diferença, centrado em suas ideias e Lakoff (1975) até o paradigma da teoria performática, centradas nas ideias de Butler (2003) e Eckert e McConnell-Ginet (2010). Portanto, enfatizamos uma perspectiva de desconstrução do paradigma da diferença em relação ao estudo do gênero, assumindo uma postura crítica e posicionando pela adoção da teoria da performatividade no tratamento de gênero. Analisamos, contudo, a geração de dados cenas do filme Tootsie a partir da noção teórica de que a Sociolinguística Interacional é instrumental para a performance. Vimos, portanto, que o filme Tootsie não é mais uma arte hollywoodiana de estancar valores essencialistas, mas de questionamentos sobre esses valores. A sátira faz parte desse conjunto de elementos, ridicularizando a questão de gênero social na realidade. O fato de buscar a especialista em gênero Lilian Glass se justifica por conseguir espaço para lançar as melhores interpretações estereotipadas de ser homem ou de ser mulher. Mas não significa que essas interpretações estejam vedadas e limitadas naquilo que parecer ser. É, na verdade, a co-construção dessas interpretações que emanam os significados subentendidos; a comédia que satiriza o real; a constatação de que na sociedade ser homem ou ser mulher não é estanque. Isso quer dizer que os indivíduos são capazes de possuir várias identidades de gênero, pelas situações contextuais, históricas e sociais, a partir das práticas performáticas.

Abstract An important milestone in the history of management thought to consider how managers control the organization's relationship with its external environment in the 1960s late. Historically, management theory has used a narrow and parochial concept of environment that emphasizes political, economic, social, and technological aspects to the virtual exclusion of the natural environment. Therefore, the history of scholarship focusing on the management of organizations in the natural environment is relatively brief, compared to that in other environment-oriented academic fields. The researches on business and green issues have sprouted since the middle of 1990s. However, these researches only discuss the responding strategies adopted by businesses sector because of stricter regulations. The specialties of the researches conducted were based on understanding ¡§What companies do¡¨ rather than ¡§Why do they do it¡¨? Base on the explanations above, this study tries to answer the three research topics: 1. Organization response to the environmental issues what is the green management to be adopted? 2. What are the factors to influence the green management? 3. How does green management impact on organizational performance? By structural equation modeling, the purpose of this study, therefore, attempts to present a framework that synthesizes the factors of institutional environment, technical environment, stakeholders, organizational structure and environmental performance and then explore these relationships with four industries in Taiwan's manufacturers. In 235 valid samples, this study finds that, in respect of green management, clean product operation is higher than proactive administrative management and green marketing activities. Green management has apparently positive correlation with the factors of institutional environment, technical environment and stakeholders. This study also finds that, the factor of organizational structure apparently positive effect managerial and operational performance. Green management apparently positive effect managerial and operational performance. Managerial performance has apparently positive influence on operational performance.

This study has theoretical, substantive, and methodological objectives following Brinberg and McGrath (1985). First, the resource-based view of the firm provides a context to support relationships determined from theory in Sociology, Finance and Entrepreneurshp. Using these interdisciplinary theories, the expected contributions of National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) member venture capital firm networks' human-based factors to the performance of initial public offerings are examined. Second, the substantive domain-venture capital-lacks articulation and quantification regarding the impact of venture capital firms on the start-up firms they support, which in this study is identified as IPO performance. Third, methodologically, the operationalization of organizational-related capital is proposed. The independent variables (human-based factors) include reputational capital, cumulative experience, social capital, and organizational-related capital. Organizational-related capital is a construct representing a firm's strategy that incorporates preferences specific to the venture capital industry, namely financing stage preference, industry relatedness, and geographic proximity. Venture capital firm networks are assessed at the syndicate and constellation levels (within and between industries) and bounded by membership in the National Venture Capital Association. Abnormal IPO stock price performance (the dependent variable) is assessed as the new issue's stock price benchmarked to the NASDAQ index and compounded over 21-day periods for up to 126 consecutive days after offering. Control variables were gleaned from economic-based theories found in the finance literature. Positive relationships were hypothesized between the independent variables and the dependent variable. Data constraints limited the number of observations examined, and the selection of IPOs investigated displayed little variance. Thus, explaining additional abnormal performance variance in IPOs backed by NVCA-member venture capital firms above and beyond that controlled for by economic-based theory was not fruitful. Although this study's findings were not statistically significant, many insights were generated that may positively influence future research in this area. The quest to better understand venture capital firms' contributions to entrepreneurial firms and the impact they have on publicly traded stocks remains meaningful. / Ph. D.