The Effect of Human Resource Management Strategies on Job Insecurity and Organizational Performance Under Financial Tsunami

• Main Authors: Pei-Shan Liu, 劉佩珊
• Other Authors: 王精文
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/13997456799735552166

碩士 === 國立中興大學 === 企業管理學系所 === 98 === The subprime mortgage crisis in America has raged the worldwide economics, and at 2009 the growing rate in Taiwan presents negative rate (-1.87%) which has been the lowest in the past eight years; however, lots of enterprises take actions of laying off, cutting pay, reducing workweeks or freezing hiring to reduce the expense of personnel matters, and that’s why the unemployment rate reaches the highest rate in the past eight years (5.9%). While enterprises are trimming personnel, they seem to ignore that employees are with worth, ambition and memories and if an enterprise want to work efficiently and then it must rely on those high quality personnel and good labor relationship. Therefore, the research is based on the financial crisis to discuss the working of human resources system among enterprises, relationship among human resource system orientation and the organizational downsizing strategy, and the relationship among the organizational downsizing strategy, the insecurity in those employees who aren’t lay off and the business performances and the research examines if the downsizing supplementary measure has moderating impact on organizational downsizing, job insecurity and organizational performances. The research find that external market transaction-oriented organization takes more action in the severe downsizing strategy than internal development commitment. Besides, it also finds that the job insecurity presents positive and the organizational performances negative to the severe downsizing strategies. At last, and the supplementary measure has moderating effect on the severe downsizing strategy, the job insecurity and the business performance. According to the result, the research suggests that if the trimming is essential and then it must be very careful to the planning before the trimming, the execution during the trimming and the adjustment after the trimming. Besides, the enterprises have to take care of those personnel who are and aren’t lay off and a fine supplementary measure will sooth the bad impact of the trimming.