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The Analyses of Job Satisfaction
Title of Thesis: of Mainlander Employees Total Pages 106
in Korean Enterprises in China
Key Ward: Work Value, Work Motivation, Job Satisfaction,
Mainland China, Korean Enterprise.
Name of Institute: Graduate Institute of China Study; Culture and
Education Division, Tamkang University
Graduate Date: January, 1999 Degree confereed: Master
Name of Student:(英文) Kim Deok Hye Advisor: DR. Yu Min Wang
(中文) 金 德 惠
This study explores the varieties in work values, motivations and job satisfaction of two tribes of mainland employers, Han (the majority of Chinese) and Chao-Shen (the descendants originally a tribe of Korean), of the Korean enterprise in China. Quantitative data were collected by surveys conducted on one hundred mainland workers of five Korean factories in Chin-Toa area. Questionnaires include a series of questions asking the two tribes of Chinese employees their work values, motivations, and job satisfaction. Participant observation was employed in collecting qualitative data. This writer worked and lived with mainland workers in a Korean factory in the locality for two months (from July to August 1997).
Findings indicate that for those Han workers, salary and close to home are the most important causes of their employment at such factories. They are satisfied with their work in general. It is because that most Korean factory pay better than the local Chinese factories and most of them are located in the suburban area where the majority of the workers reside. In contrast, those Chau-Shen employers who are from afar (the three provinces in Northeast) reached a relatively lower job satisfaction result. It is because that they feel superior for being able to master two languages (Chinese and Korean) which enables them to have a better employment opportunity, and they therefore believe that they deserve to be treated better and get higher pay. Conflicts between workers of the two tribes and among the three parties (the two tribes and the management) are resulted from the difference in cultural background. A number of suggestions on management are provided for Korean entrepreneurs.
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