A Study on the Development Strategies of the Bank of Kaohsiung ABSTRACT There has been a trend toward financial deregulation and globalization since 1980. During this period, both Britain and France started the system of privatization of state-owned firms. And Taiwan, R.O.C. also kept up with the trend to construct the framework of economical deregulation and globalization. Meanwhile, being against the global trend fearlessly and courageously, the Kaohsiung city government, to the contrary, established the Bank of Kaohsiung (B.O.K.) to bring prosperity to residents. However, under the big pressure of the global tendency, the Kaohsiung city government finally changed its policy to implement privatization and completed all the tasks on Sep. 27, 1999. Through the establishment of privatization of state-owned firms, the B.O.K. modulate development strategies, progress enterprise renovation and upgrade the operation performance to face the increasingly strict challenges and the tendency of bank consolidation. However, privatization is not a panacea for the sustainable development of the B.O.K. Therefore, this study aims to discuss the development strategies of the B.O.K. from three aspects of employees, employer and the government, to achieve win-win-win results. The results and suggestions of this study are as follows: I. The Operation Performance The operation performance after privatization of the B.O.K. still acts as a role of state-owned bank of the Kaohsiung city government. Basically speaking, the quantities of the municipal loans of the city government will comply with the performances of the bank¡¦s assets, liabilities, and incomes. The higher the former one is, the more the latter ones are. II. The Industrial Competitive Position In late 2004, the market shares of assets and liabilities of the B.O.K. didn¡¦t exceed 1%. Besides, the scale of B.O.K. fell behind the other firms. Its operation performance was fair. Except for the growth rate, the capital adequacy, asset quality, profitability, liquidity ability, and interest rate sensibility respectively are in high-middle rankings among the domestic banks. And the competitive position of deposit, loan, and profit-risk fell in the area of the third quadrant. The major rivals against the B.O.K. on business and consolidation strategies will be Kao Shin Commercial Bank, Taiwan Cooperative Bank and First Commercial Bank. But the potential rivals against the B.O.K. on consolidation strategy include Chinese Bank, Chinfon Commercial Bank, Hwatai Bank, Cota Commercial Bank, Lucky Bank, Taitung Business Bank, Taipei Bank, China Development Industrial Bank. III. Employee Satisfaction The survey of questionnaires shows that the employees in the B.O.K. recognize the business principles of this enterprise and feel satisfied with the payoff, but express non-trust on executive officers and unfairness on personnel system. With the impact of privatization and bank consolidation, the B.O.K. Union adopted the strategy of law-compliance to complete establishing employment regulation, signing collective agreement and electing worker director, which are considered three pillars of the Union, for protecting the working rights. IV. The Competitive Strategies and Operation Policies The overall application on competitive strategies is not excellent. Especially, the implement in development strategy is the worst. The priority that the B.O.K. should do is to establish clear developmental strategies to upgrade its competitive potential through the following steps. A. Risk Management: Comply with the regulation of Basel II to enhance the ability of managing risk. B. Finance Management: Improve assets quality to increase the bank¡¦s profitability. C. Business Management: Develop diversified businesses on the basis of municipal loan. D. Human Resource: Plan proper manpower placement and hold in-service training to raise the degree of employee satisfaction. E. Interior Procedure: Implement responsibility center management and enhance financial information system. F. Developmental Perspective: Found the basis of ¡§small is beautiful, small is professional, and small is strong¡¨, and develop into the biggest financial holding company in southern Taiwan in the future. G. Organization Restructure: Consider establishing corporate banking group, consumer banking group and wealth management group. In Kaohsiung area, the B.O.K. should focus on the plan of establishing region center, and mini-individual bank with specific task outside Kaohsiung area. V. Proposal Evaluation for development strategies of the B.O.K. Considering the recognition over competitive developmental strategies of the B.O.K. from three aspects including labors, employer and the government, the study offers the following suggestions under the limitation for implement. A. The best strategy of the B.O.K. for sustainable management is to adopt the principle of ¡§small is beautiful, small is professional, and small is strong¡¨, and to expand business across the whole nation in the future. B. If the Kaohsiung city government adopts the strategy of capital withdraw, the proposal of selling to domestic general public should be the first priority to be taken into consideration. C. If the Kaohsiung city government adopts the strategy of niche, the proposal of consolidation with varied small financial holding company or being merged by non-banking financial holding company will gain the best benefits. D. Not launch the proposal of increasing capital to avoid the public¡¦s anxiety. VI. Intrinsic Value Evaluation for the B.O.K. Based on the evaluation criteria of bias, accuracy, explanatory, and investment performance, the study shows that model D of discounted free cash flow (FCF-D) ranks number one, model B of Edwards-Bell-Ohlson (EBO-B), model B of price/earning ratios (PE-B) rank number two and three respectively. The rest six ones are not recommended. Also the study suggests that the B.O.K. should adopt FCF-D to evaluate its intrinsic value. It is estimated that the intrinsic value per stock is NT$22.24 on May 3, 2005.

The operation in assignment of manpower needs in the country is still in the primary stage. The present implementation of labor ordinance does not have effective regulations and it is not so clear. Therefore it easily creates confusion and attribution of responsibility problems. Aside from these, enterprise does not have a set of effective operation method in allocation between regular employee and assignment of manpower needs. Therefore, the present stage in the allocation of manpower is mostly the line aspect of thinking mode. Due to the lack of whole value concept in system thinking therefore the allocation between regular employee and assignment of manpower needs create unharmonious phenomenon which bring about the enterprise in assignment of manpower needs that the cost of personnel expenses did not decrease but increases. Because the method in allocation of manpower in production line and the variation of customer order that it must be a development variation. Therefore, we must depend in the complete system thinking and setting of strategy in order to let the interaction relationship of both party reaches the optimum. The aim of this research is to use the strategy map and the method of System Dynamics to proceed in the regulation, simulation and testing in order to analyze in finding the most suitable allocation method between regular employee and assignment of manpower needs. Due to the direct production manpower and the existence of enterprises, the lasting of enterprises are closely related. But in the general enterprises toward the strategy in allocation of direct manpower and implementation still use the direct line of thinking method. Therefore it is very difficult to handle the development variation of environment. It is only adequately let the manpower resources strategy of enterprises to draw a casual loop map then use the related aspect of strategy map. Thru the emphasis of relationship between manpower resource strategy and enterprises strategy then use the System Dynamics to establish model. At the same time, perform the simulation of development and analysis in order to assist the company cases in manpower development allocation strategy more effective. This research is base on the research aim, confer documents, research of company cases, cost and effect related feedback analysis. System Dynamics establishes the subject pattern, testing, situation and policy simulation, analysis, conferment that sum up and arrange the conclusion of this research. 1. Flexibility of Manpower Resource Strategy: Assignment of personnel will let the company cases in the aspect of using manpower to have flexibility and decrease the cost of personnel expenses. At the same time, the same line of enterprises will have more competition and greater survival space. 2. Drawing of Manpower Resources Strategy Map: strategy map can help enterprises ¡§focusing¡¨ and ¡§connection¡¨ in setting the strategy. It can let all personnel clearly understand the target and direction of the strategy. At the same, in the setting of model, thru the strategy map can set the bounder of the system. 3. Using System Thinking to establish the cost and effect feedback map and System Dynamics Pattern: Thru the system thinking pattern of the System Dynamics draw the cost and effect feedback map. Aside that it can test the general thinking and direct thinking. It also can let the system to have more intersystem relationship. 4. Let the Simulation Result of the System Dynamics Serves as Reference of the Enterprises Manpower Strategy Regulations: using system thinking to establish system pattern, thru the testing of pattern, simulation and analysis, use the result of simulation to provide enterprises as reference in setting the direct manpower resource strategy regulations. Using the Simulation Testing of the System Dynamics to find for the Most Suitable Solution in the System: Thru the development simulation of the system pattern, we can find out the most suitable solution that belongs to the enterprises.

The thesis attempts to provide an analysis of the role of trade union membership in the formations of trade union consciousness and worker identity and the assumption that the trade union membership is influential in the formation of worker identity is tested in this study. It is mainly based upon a field study conducted in Railcar Factory of T&Uuml / VASAS in Sakarya, makes a comparison between union member workers and non-union member subcontractors in terms of the formation of trade union consciousness and worker identity. It will also be possible to point out concretely that the formations of trade consciousness and worker identity are analysed through perceptions, consciousness and attitudes by taking the social, economic and political dimensions into consideration. It is analysed that the trade union membership has not a significant influence on the formation of worker identity and there are no big differences among the union member workers and subcontractors in terms of the aproaches towards trade unionism, working class consciousness and worker identity.

This study aims at understanding the discursiveness of T&uuml / rk-Is, Hak-Is and DISK against the neoliberal policies textually and discursively shaped by the governments and employers in the years between 1980 and 2003 in Turkey. In this sense, Norman Fairclough&#039 / s critical discourse analysis and Laclau and Mouffe&#039 / s discourse theory constitute the theoretical framework of this study. In this theoretical perspective, this study analyzes discourses of the labor confederations in four historical moments called January 24 measures (1980 coup), 1994 crisis, February 28 process and 2001 crisis. In each historical moment, governments and Turkish bourgeoisie have produced new hegemonic discourses and texts in order to construct the actors and circumstances of working life under the influence of the global neoliberal order since 1980. Against this neoliberal construction of working life, texts and counter-discourses of these labor confederations become important in order to understand their hegemonic capacities. In this context, this study portrays the relation among governments, employers and the labor confederations in a hegemonic relation and argues that the hegemonic capacities of these labor confederations could not prevent construction of &#039 / new worker&#039 / as a prototype in the individualization and flexibilization of working life in the post 1980 Turkey.

Genetic Algorithm (GA) has become a very popular tool for various kinds of problems, including optimization problems with wider search spaces. Grid search techniques are usually not feasible or ineffective at finding a solution, which is good enough. The most computationally intensive component of GA is the calculation of the goodness (fitness) of candidate solutions. However, since the fitness calculation of each individual does not depend each other, this process can be parallelized easily. The easiest way to reach high amounts of computational power is using grid. Grids are composed of multiple clusters, thus they can offer much more resources than a single cluster. On the other hand, grid may not be the easiest environment to develop parallel programs, because of the lack of tools or libraries that can be used for communication among the processes. In this work, we introduce a new framework, GridAE, for GA applications. GridAE uses the master worker model for parallelization and offers a GA library to users. It also abstracts the message passing process from users. Moreover, it has both command line interface and web interface for job management. These properties makes the framework more usable for developers even with limited parallel programming or grid computing experience. The performance of GridAE is tested with a shape optimization problem and results show that the framework is more convenient to problems with crowded populations.

The Explorative Research About the Employment System and HR Practice of Employee Dispatching Industry in Taiwan ¡XUse The Related Industries in America as a basic of comparison Abstract How to effectively enhance the competitive competency is the most important goal for companies to accomplish in recent years. Traditional human resources management models have failed to work effectively because of the heightened competition. HR systems have experienced radical changes. In the more and more complex environment, the way to conquer the challenges of human resources management is the key point in making up companies¡¦ competency. To avoid the increasing cost of employment getting heavy, the companies tend to adopt a flexible HRM system to reduce the cost. This tendency gives rise to contingent work force. It also raises the interest of this study to discuss the newly controversial issue of the employee dispatching in Taiwan. However, the scholars always mentioned the related U.S. industries of the U.S. when discussing the local dispatching industry. This study will compare the similarities and dissimilarities between the related industries and the local dispatching industry. We wish to provide suggestions to the developing dispatching industry. Case study will be adopted in this research. We try to sketch the outline of the local dispatching industry through this method and compare the similarities and dissimilarities between the three industries. From this research, we can conclude that: 1.The concept of the employee dispatching is still not prevailing. The complete employee dispatching system has not yet been established. However, all the business owners think that the dispatching industry will keep growing. The growth of dispatching industry would solely appear in the quantity of dispatching. The professional employee dispatching isn¡¦t ready yet. 2.In the discussion of causes, the reasons for the rise of the dispatching industry are not really the same as the related industries of U.S. However, The reasons of using dispatching highly dovetail with those of U.S. and the characteristics of the dispatched workers are similar to those of the related industries. 3.In the discussion of the HR practice, we find that the HR function of the dispatching process is still rough. Most jobs of dispatching are at the simple and basic level and lack of challenge. This is one of the reasons why dispatching industry suffers the high turnover rate. Keywords: employee dispatching, dispatched worker, temporary help service industry, employee leasing industry

Manger usually thinks about the cost saving of manpower during the organizational reengineering and downsizing. The first step of the downsizing is to encourage the older employee joining the early retirement program. From the prospect of those employees, they usually think about their own benefit and eager to guarantee themselves. Early retirement program seems to be the bridge to connect with both sides. Manager with the economical concern, the reaction and organizational behavior of continued work is more important to affect the performance of organization. The research is focus on the early retirement of Chungwa Telecom Co., Ltd. And discuss about how the program affect the organizational behavior of continued worker. We try to provide a reference resource to the company especially when they are during organization reengineering. This research was using questionnaire and quantities method to do it. The main found: 1. Because they are public servant, date shows that intension to quit of the employees is quite low. In 43-54 year-old employees the longer tenure employees have higher intension to quit than shorter tenure employees. 2. In the continued worker, female¡¦s Job satisfaction and work pressure are higher then male. 3. When we discuss about intension to quit, the effect of organizational commitment is more important then job satisfaction.

This purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between employees¡¦ perception on organizational climate and job involvement, and the moderating effect of employ types. This research involves all employees belonging to the I Research Laboratory, as experimental subjects for questionnaire surveys. We used the personal characteristics as the controlled variables, the organizational climate as an independent variable, the employ type as a moderate variable and the job involvement as a dependent variable. A total of 569 questionnaires were delivered and got 339 valid questionnaires. Based on the valid questionnaires, the hierarchical regression analysis and the Pearson¡¦s correlation analysis were used to analyze the data. Major empirical findings are summarized as follows: 1.There are significant differences in job involvement among difference education degree. 2.There are significant correlations between the awareness of the organizational climate and the job involvement. 3.The employ type has no significant moderating effect on the relationship between organizational climate and job involvement.

The Corporate Real Estate Executive has many factors to consider when selecting and outfitting workspace for the company's employees, most of whom are knowledge workers. There are many factors to consider other than cost including the office space design, the LEED or other green building characteristics of the space,the business context in which the company operates, and how all these factors work together to impact productivity. A workplace and productivity assessment tool was completed for four different companies to assess eight different productivity elements and how they interact to impact productivity. Two companies occupied LEED certified facilities, one company occupied a green building, and the fourth company was in conventional office space.

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