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The Job Satisfaction of Convenient Storekeeper-A Research on 7-ELEVEN in Taiwan

Due to the rapid development of the retail industry in Taiwan, the transaction cost of product circulation is reduced, thus promotes the economic growth and improves people¡¦s living standard. The reason businesses can succeed in the retail industry in Taiwan is generally because they have correct business models and strategic positions. However, they cannot usually maintain their human capital due to bad job characteristics and lack of sound personnel systems. With the maturity of the industry, improvement of human resources management is absolutely the primary source of differentiation for business competition.
This study is based on 7-ELEVEN, one of the leaders in the retail industry in Taiwan, to explore the current circumstances of job satisfaction of the convenient storekeepers, and then to find out effective ways that help upgrade their human resources management and finally offer some comments. The findings of this study are as follows:
1. The convenient storekeepers of 7-ELEVEN in Taiwan have high degree of job satisfaction because the work value of the employees matches up well with the job characteristics of the organization.
2. In this study, 6 dimensions in job satisfaction have been sorted out by factor analysis. They are ¡§organization administration and development¡¨, ¡§supervisor leadership¡¨, ¡§autonomy¡¨, ¡§nature of work¡¨, ¡§work support¡¨, and ¡§social relation¡¨. Among the degree of satisfaction on the 6 dimensions, ¡§work support¡¨ and ¡§social relation¡¨ are higher, while ¡§organization administration and development¡¨ and ¡§supervisor leadership¡¨ are lower.
3. According to the result of ANOVA, different personal variables have significant influences on job satisfaction: different ¡§academic background¡¨ have significant difference on ¡§supervisor leadership¡¨; different ¡§storekeeper seniority¡¨ have significant difference on ¡§nature of work¡¨; different ¡§working region¡¨ have significant difference on ¡§social relation¡¨. Moreover, different ¡§storekeeper category¡¨ and ¡§working region¡¨ both have significant difference on ¡§total job satisfaction¡¨; ¡§female storekeepers in Kaohsiung¡¨ have significantly higher degree of ¡§total job satisfaction¡¨ than other groups.
4. According to the result of regression analysis, ¡§organization administration and development¡¨ is the only factor having significant influence on ¡§total job satisfaction¡¨. Therefore, improving ¡§organization administration and development¡¨ is the most effective way to increase ¡§total job satisfaction¡¨.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0710103-182508
Date10 July 2003
CreatorsChu, Guang-Fu
Contributorsnone, none, K. S. Yeh
PublisherNSYSU
Source SetsNSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive
LanguageCholon
Detected LanguageEnglish
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Formatapplication/pdf
Sourcehttp://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0710103-182508
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