Enterprise Resource Planning Certificate and Self-actuation of Employees from Theory of Work Adjustment

• Main Authors: Lai,Hungchun, 賴虹均
• Other Authors: Lin,Shinyi
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/67835084543928005684

碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 事業經營碩士學位學程 === 100 === Since 1990s, the growth of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system has been enormous. Related researches indicate that user is one of the key factors for the success of adopting ERP system. Therefore, if the company could enhance the understanding and development of ERP system before adopting it, the demand and cost inputs of consultants in the adopting process could be reduced. The signaling theory brings out that the behavior of employers hiring job seekers is an investment with uncertainty ,because the productivity of job seekers needs a period of for verification. In the past, the level of education is the most important signal resource. But with the increase of college amount and universal education, there are more and more graduates from all kinds of departments, even the numbers of Masters and Doctors are increasing rapidly. Nowadays, employers can no longer use only education level as a signal to judge the ability of job seekers, they have to turn to alternative signals, and the importance of certificates reveals. Chinese Enterprise Resource Planning Society (2011) finds that the number of people who applies for ERP certificate rises rapidly in recent years, which means that more and more people nowadays own ERP certificate. It shows that people pay more attention to ERP certificate now. This research focuses on manufacture companies using systems like DSC, Oracle and SAP, and are listed in the top 500 of Common Wealth Magazine (2012). The main purpose is to find out the differences between having ERP certificate or not on professional competency, computer self-efficacy, work satisfaction, job performanceand self-actualization. The other goal is to find out the self-actualization factors of employees having ERP certificate. This research use internet questionnaire for data collection, and received 102 valid questionnaires. The results shows that employees who have ERP certificates have higher professional competency and job performance than those without ERP certificate. Professional competency, computer self-efficacy, work satisfaction, job performance and self-actualization are found to be related to each other. At the end, this research offers a decision reference for schools to plan students’ certificate application and for enterprises to recruit employees.