A Study on the Relationships Among the Practices for Preventing Foreign Laborers Run Away, Continuance Commitment, Internal Locus of Control－ An Investigation of the Philippine Laborers in Kaohsiung’s NEPZ

• Main Authors: Michael Hsieh, 謝瑞源
• Other Authors: Dr. Philip C.F. Tsai
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/35434440446912647794

碩士 === 文藻外語學院 === 國際事業暨文化交流研究所 === 98 === Taiwan’s government passed a law in 1989 regarding the hiring of foreign laborers for the purpose of meeting the following needs: human resources shortage in Taiwan’s 14 major construction projects, caretakers for certain households. The passage of the law alleviated the problems of Taiwan’s basic manpower and caretakers manpower shortage. However, the problem of increasing numbers of foreign laborers running away has arisen because they can not get used to the policy, management style, culture, working habit, lifestyle, etc. From the theory of organizational behavior, when foreign laborers run away, it signifies that they have lower continuance commitments toward their organizations. They neither identify nor intend to stay in their organizations. This research provides precautions to counter the runaway problems from relevant literatures, to verify if they can enhance the foreign laborers’ continuance commitments. Besides, the theory of locus of control suggests that personality affects one’s adjustment behavior towards the environment; this research also introduces the internal locus of control as the moderating variable to determine if it can enhance the relationship between the practices to prevent foreign labors from runway and continuance commitments. This study utilizes a quantitative method and questionnaire as the methodology by which to investigate the Philippine laborers of the electronic companies in Kaohsiung Nantze Export Processing Zone, and attempts to analyze the interrelationships among the independent variable “practices to prevent foreign labors from runway”, the dependent variable “continuance commitment” and the moderating variable “internal locus of control”. 268 copies of questionnaires were complete. The findings of this research are:The practices to prevent foreign laborers from running away will strengthen the continuance commitment of foreign laborers. Also, the moderating effect of internal locus of control to the relation of the practices for preventing foreign workers from running away and continuance commitment is not significant. Through this empirical research, it is expected that specific approaches to manage the runway problems will become more effective and contribute to providing useful suggestions for the business owners, society and academics.