Identifying Motivation Factors for Employees in Engineering Consultant Firms

• Main Authors: Yi-an Chen, 陳怡安
• Other Authors: Wei Lo
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/08730448588147934518

碩士 === 國立高雄第一科技大學 === 營建工程所 === 96 === Engineering consultant firm provides technical services in civil and infrastructure engineering. Engineering consultant firms integrate different fields of engineering experts to design and construct management the civil and infrastructure engineering projects. Due to the rapid changes of the environment, the Engineering consultant firms have faced some impacts and problems. One of the methods is to establish an effective man power management system and to recruit excellent engineers, in order to strengthen the competition ability of the Engineering consultant firms. This thesis investigates and analyses the “A Class” engineering consultants to understand the preferences of employee and attributes of the variables and motivation factor mutual relations. The results are listed as follows: (1) The top three most attractive motivation factors are, “the pay raise treatment”, “improving performance bonuses”, and “job security”. The companies had adopted motivation factors for the top three types of “tourism activities or special leave”, and “provide retirement, disaster relief payments, insurance”, and “to provide education or training opportunities”. It shows that the motivation system provided by company and motivation factors preferred by staff are varied. (2) The employees with higher education expect better working conditions and higher pay; the elder employees prefer higher allowance subsidy. The more elder employees care about job security because of the unemployment crisis. (3) Those male employees more care about the performance bonus incentives than women employees; the employees with MS or higher degree more care about the working environment improvement. Those unmarried employees care about the benefit of the tourism activities or leisure recreation facilities; and the married employees care about the job security. The employees who service within 2 years care about the advanced learning opportunities; and the employees who service around 5 years more care about post transferring inside the company. Keywords：Engineering consultant firm, Scientific management, human resources management, motivation factor