Chapter VII Findings and Suggestion
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6. Appendix F
Interviewee: Mechanical Engineer Gender: Female
Marriage: Married
Working Experience: 12 years experiences of Mechanical design
1. What is your company’s policy for employees who are dispatched to work in Mainland China? What is important to you about the policy? Why? (PS-03)
To my case, I only have short term dispatch to China and the longest travel duration is in 30 days.1 My company doesn’t have any special policies for short term dispatch and the only policy is to fulfill the daily needs.2 The company doesn’t mind if the dispatch would bring any personal influences,3 they only care if we can achieve the mission.4 The company’s short term policies that only include living,5 UD 27 dollars of dispatch allowance (includes dinning fees)6 and other actual expense fees, like telephone fee and transportation fee and the like.7 I think the most of Taiwanese OEM/ODM enterprises that provide almost the same welfares for short term dispatch employees, unless, OBM industrial company would get better welfare for business trips. And now what I have for the business trips in China that is the children care, the dispatch duration8 and frequency9 are very important to me. As my present situation, family is the most important to me and I hope my company can adjust the working style of dispatch, for instances, to decrease the dispatch frequency or take turns for it.10 I think these solutions would help for many people who have the same situation about
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dispatch.11 As I know there are almost over than 95% of Taiwanese who reject these kind of situation, but can’t change anything about it.12
2. What kind of factors would affect your job selection personally? (PS-05)
If I was young and singe, wage would be the first consideration to make and save more money.13 But now I have a kid, I hope that I can take of her.14 I hope that I can have a job that allows me leave office on time to take care my kid and family.15 If I could take care of both my job and family, now wage would be the 2nd consideration,16 but not consider too much about wage and welfare.17
3. On the side of enterprise, what kind of policy would you prefer , when you consider a transnational enterprise? (PS-06)
I would consider about the stress from working (working duration),18 working pattern (dispatch frequency and duration)19 and wage.20 So far, the most of Taiwanese trans-national enterprises set their factories in China and assemble products in China. And I need to skill transfer, tooling trial shot and find resolution to make products to mass production. The Note-book belongs to consumer products, less life time, less develop time and sales at the expense of profits and further to increase my stress and ignore family.21 When I’ve a project, I almost over-time working every day and then having business trip in China that leads me don’t have much time to spend time with my family.22 I think only the same character of engineers as me who can understand the toilsome, so I think that enterprise
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should have the compensatory, such as salary or bonus.23 These are what I would consider about the trans-national enterprises’ when I look for a job.24
4. Every country has been recruiting domestic and overseas talents. Does it affect your employment situation in Taiwan or even overseas? Does it present opportunities or challenges to you? (PS-07)
I think it is a challenge to me, because I am not single and my focus is not on working.25 Family is accounted for the most to me,26 and I will probably lose the competition with domestic and foreign excellent talents.27 And, I would be afraid of looking for a new job, because enterprises have concern about married female. The reason is due to HR would consider that married females who can’t act in concert with job with 100% and whatever job needs.28 Then, the final part would be the influence on wage.29 I won’t consider about working overseas, so I would compete with foreign talents who are recruited for working in Taiwan.30 When I am getting old, enterprises would be willing to hire younger freshmen with cheaper money.31
5. Compared with other enterprises, what are your advantages with regards to retention?
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My company is the top five of Note-book company32 and the business is growth stable.33 Enterprise haven’t affected by the environment, such as, lay-off, salary-reduction or
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unpaid that shows the enterprise has good future prospect.34 My company’s constitution is good35 and has complete system.36 My company pays attentions to personal training to promote employees’ abilities on every different aspect,37 so there are many on-line programs or actual courses to employees. These courses are free and we don’t spend money for it. That would be very good to us. When we have less rush, we can have classes.38 Besides the various programs, there are some equipment for exercise and activities take place t.39 Company releases job vacancy irregularly and they have more opportunities to get proper job that other job seekers who are not present this enterprise’s employees.40 And the last one is special one that if we- professional engineers, such as, mechanical engineers and electronic engineers who have been working in the company over than three years and have good performance, company will sign a contract and provide bonus for remaining them and constrain them to work here at less over three years. It’s not a way to remain talents, but also a guarantee to company.41
6. What are your company’s policies compared with other companies’ to avoid or decrease
“brain drain”? (PL-02)
It’s definitely that the wage and welfare are better than the medium-small enterprises.42 I think these parts are almost every employee’s main goal to get more money, so that would be a high incentive to employees. For instance, we will get bonus once a year that is according to the personal performance.43 And as I mentioned last question, HR will refer to the personal performance and seniority that is not a small amount, so it would attract
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employees’ stay in company.44 It is a very special encouragement that only my company provides.45 And the last part is the internal job opportunities.46
7. In your opinion, does your company have advantages that would appeal to overseas professional talents? What are they? (PL-03)
Our company’s factories overseas locates in China, in my opinions, the incentives include complete system and working flows47 and its ranking is top five in the Note-book computer industries.48 Because company has a completed working and process flow that can help employees to accumulate and learn the fully and completed experiences and more systemize.49 Working in big enterprise would be an access board to the future working development that is same as domestic employees’ mindsets.50 That is also because if people who have experiences working in big company, the ability is affirmative.51 They will have more opportunities to get jobs than other job seekers.52 On the part of welfare that is also the incentive to Chinese job seekers that is better conditions than other enterprises.53 The division working is more specific that employee can focus the specific part.54
8. If being dispatched to work in China, how do you manage the family, health, career plan issues and so on, to be able to accept this job? Or does your company has any policies for you to solve or overcome these issues? (OB-03)
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To my condition, I am married and have kid, the dispatch job brings the family care,55 health56 and stress57 are the problems that I meet. These three problems are related to each other. To the whole employment environment in Taiwan, as an engineer that I can’t avoid dispatch,58 but I can’t change the big environment and my company doesn’t have any policies to help us on it.59 What I can do for this kind of situation that is to change myself and try to find out some solutions to adapt. Fortunately, my husband doesn’t need to have dispatch overseas and my mother-in-law who is very supportable to take care my kid that decrease my stress and it is better to the health stable.60
9. What are the issues that need to be solved urgently when you are dispatched to work in China? And what are the factors which will decide if you remain in the assignment or not?
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I think the urgent issues that need to solve as soon as possible or they would influence my personal decision about keeping working in this enterprise or quitting. To me, these factors include: dispatch frequency61 and dispatch duration.62 Besides the kid/family care63 and health are the other big concerns to me. Because as I am getting old and also have obligations to take care my family (kid64 and parents65), only to be healthy that can let me take care of them. After the five-year of dispatch frequently that makes my health get worse and am thinking of changing to another job that don’t need to have frequency dispatch.66
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10. As every country has been recruiting talents from around the world, are there any factors that influence your job selection? (OB-06)
If opening the policies to Chinese who work in Taiwan that I will get a very big influence/impact.67 Because I believe that enterprises will prefer the cheaper Chinese who graduated from the top universities.68 And I guess that I must decrease my wage to compete with them to get a great and ideal job.69 Unless the Taiwanese enterprises who prefer to Taiwanese whose attitude and value on jobs to leave opportunities to us. Or I think that I’m married with kid70 and more expensive than Chinese71 that I don’t have advantages to get ideal job.72 And also, because my focus is on my family care, I won’t consider to work overseas that has no influences if foreign enterprises to recruit talents.73
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