As our society heads into aging society, along with more double-career family, economic pressure for young couples, and the increase of women employment rate, it becomes inevitable for the government to import alien nursing workers to meet domestic needs. Nowadays, we see these workers cross the border and fly over the ocean to Taiwan ¡V their promised land. Indeed, how much do we know about them? The current research, instead of studying on how these workers influence our society as most of other related literature, focuses on the situations of these alien nursing workers in the hospital, treat them as individuals with emotions and selves not just economic values to Taiwanese. In this thesis, the role that the alien nursing workers play in the medical system and the ways that they interact with other people are discussed. As ¡§role" and "interaction" are both abstract and complicated facets of social life, the research adopts qualitative methods of in-depth interviews and field observation. Six alien nursing workers, three nursing workers, three nurses, a service user, and two government section members are interviewed.

Due to several reasons, such as the competitive environments which entrepreneurs face, new working values, and ideas of outsourcing, companies must have more flexible HRM strategies to maintain the competitive advantages. In order to seek for more flexibility in employment, employee dispatching has become one of the popular ways for companies to use in America, Japan or European countries and so has it in Taiwan. Employee dispatching can help companies to retain professional employees or special techniques, to deal with seasonal demands, to reduce costs and unnecessary managerial responsibilities, so that they can focus more on unclear business. Although employee dispatching brings more flexibility in employment and reduces costs for companies, it still has some complicated issues needed to deal with. The employment relationship is about "joint employer" or "co-employment". This raises complex legal issues especially when related labor laws are not well developed in Taiwan now. Moreover, the quality, loyalty or the performance of dispatched workers is also the problems which companies have to take care of. It is a trend that employee dispatching will be getting more and more popular in Taiwan. Therefore, it is strongly suggested and would be very necessary to do some more advanced studies on the arrangements, the backgrounds of its development, how it is used now, why it is used, what it is going to be in the future, and the compensation of dispatched workers.

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