The Relationships of Career Development, Job Satisfaction, and the Objectives of On-job Continuing Study of the Employees – A Case Study of Iron & Steel Industry

• Main Authors: Shu-Yu Kuo, 郭澍妤
• Other Authors: Liang-Chih Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2003
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/95287114553897581216

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 91 === The Relationships of Career Development, Job Satisfaction, and the Objectives of On-job Continuing Study of the Employees – A Case Study of Iron & Steel Industry Abstract Iron & steel Industry, the basic industry of a country, which is closely related to economic steadiness and defense independence, is known as “the Mother of Heavy Industry.” However, owing to the striking changes of the industrial structure in the recent years, employees must endeavor to life-long learning on their own initiatives, and enhance their career competitiveness by talents transition so as to seek for more opportunities for suitable jobs and growth in the career life. The purpose of this study is to have a further understanding of the influences of the career development phase, job satisfaction, and continuing study objectives of iron & steel industry employees on different personal variables, as well as their interrelationships, in the hope of providing the findings of this research to the iron & steel industry as the reference for the follow-up plan of education training or personal life-long learning in enhancing the job satisfaction of the employees and human resources qualities. This research is grounded on the theoretical basis derived from related literature. Then, questionnaire investigation is adopted with the employees of the manufactures affiliated to Taiwan Steel & Iron Industries Association taken as the targets, and 650 employees for sampling survey. The number of valid questionnaires obtained is 433. The followings are concluded after conducting quantitative analysis in statistic method with the information obtained. 1. Most of the employees of the iron & steel industry are in the phase of growth enhancement and mature development. 2. The division of the career phases of the employees in the iron & steel industry is not limited to age and seniority, but related to the personal variables including gender, education, marriage status, position, etc. 3. The job satisfaction of the employees in the iron & steel industry is only in the level of “fair.” Especially, most of the employees are not satisfied with the aspect of “administrative supervision.” 4. Continuing learning is highly demanded by the employees in the iron & steel industry. 5. The employees in the iron & steel industry pursue for continuing study with many-sided objectives which may differ because of various personal backgrounds. The objectives of “expansion in social contacts” and “opportunity for career change” are the most agreeable objectives, while “evasion or excitement” is the least agreeable one. 6. The perceptions of job satisfaction are related to the career phases of the employees. Especially, the phase of “mature development” and the job satisfaction in every perspective are positively interrelated, while the phase of “frustration and decline” and the job satisfaction in every perspective are negatively related. 7. Mostly, the objectives for employees to pursue for continuing study are not resulted from the influence of job satisfaction. Only the satisfaction with “task content” and “administrative supervision” has a cause-and-effect relation with the objective of “the expansion of social contacts.” 8. Career development phase may lead to different objectives for the employees to pursue further learning. Key words: Career Development, Job Satisfaction, Objectives of On-job Continuing Study.