A Study of Relationships among Cognition of User Enterprises, Cognition of Dispatched Enterprises, Personality traits, Job satisfaction and Turnover Intentions of Taiwanese Dispatched workers
Abstract
Recently, the number of dispatched workers has been increasing rapidly in Taiwan. Yet little is known of behavior and job attitudes of these workers. Enterprises use dispatched workers due to flexibility concerns or urgent workforce demands. Finding a suitable and stable dispatched worker proves to be a challenge to enterprises. Now, enterprise social accountability is an important subject. Besides the great profit, enterprises should concern job satisfaction and cognition of enterprises to dispatched workers .
This study focuses on Taiwanese dispatched workers and aims to examine the relationships among ¡§cognition of dispatched enterprises¡¨, ¡§cognition of user enterprises¡¨ , ¡§personality trait¡¨,¡¨ job satisfaction¡¨ and ¡§turnover intention¡¨.
After interviewing 5 dispatched workers and surveying 152 dispatched workers with questionnaires, the findings are as follows:
1. Female dispatched workers reveal agreeableness better than male.
2. Dispatched workers who are 29 or younger have higher score in Neuroticism; dispatched workers who are older than 29 have higher score in agreeableness and conscientiousness.
3. Dispatched workers who have graduated from high school show significantly higher score in ¡§cognition of dispatched workers toward dispatched enterprises¡¨ than those in university .
4. The contract period of the dispatched workers within 3 months show significantly higher score than those above 2 years.
5. Voluntary dispatched workers have better ¡§cognition of dispatched enterprises¡¨, higher ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ and lower ¡§ turnover intentions¡¨.
6. Dispatched workers belong to local dispatched enterprises have higher score in Conscientiousness.
7. Dispatched workers¡¦ ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ has an intermediate effect or an interactive effect between ¡§cognition of dispatched enterprises¡¨ and ¡§turnover intentions¡¨.
8. Dispatched workers¡¦ ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ has an intermediate effect or an interactive effect between ¡§cognition of user enterprises¡¨ and ¡§turnover intentions¡¨.
9. Agreeableness is positively correlated to ¡§job satisfaction¡¨.
10. Dispatched workers¡¦ ¡§job satisfaction¡¨ has no intermediate effect or interactive effect between ¡§personality traits¡¨ and ¡§turnover intentions¡¨.
Key words: dispatched worker, cognition, personality trait, job satisfaction, turnover intention
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0818105-110954 |
Date | 18 August 2005 |
Creators | CHEN, HUEI-FANG |
Contributors | none, none, none |
Publisher | NSYSU |
Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
Language | Cholon |
Detected Language | English |
Type | text |
Format | application/pdf |
Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0818105-110954 |
Rights | unrestricted, Copyright information available at source archive |
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