| dc.description.abstract | Taiwan-based companies invested in China for its advantages in strategic geography, ample workforce, same race of people,and absence of language barrier. However, in more than a decade, the economy skyrocketed in China, and so were workers’ wages. The labor advantage of China is no more. Particularly from 2003, the coastal parts of China started experiencing “labor shortage.” An article published on nfmedia.com on Mar. 8, 2010 pointed out that in the Province of Guangdong, the Pearl River Delta was in need for 2 million workers and Dongguan in need for 1 million. 《Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security》 published a survey report in 2010 indicating that 70% of businesses along the eastern coasts experienced labor shortage. Many of these businesses tried to recruit more workers by providing better pays and welfare, but the shortage was never resolved and had great impacts on the normal operations and in turn the competitiveness of companies. The guidelines of the 12th5-year plan of China starting in 2011 emphasizes on “increase of citizens’ incomes and improvement of domestic consumption.” All of the Provincial Governments started to increase minimum wage by 12.5~18% every year, which results in rapid increase of labor costs.
For this, the research and study was intended to establish a reasonable and encouraging payroll system as a human resource department of a corporation to prevent loss of employees, while investigating the possibility of introducing automation solution to reduce the dependence on workforce and reduce the impact of increased salaries and welfare on businesses. This study was performed with questionnaire survey and field survey. 280 copies of questionnaire were distributed to front-line workers in a module factory of the research company and visits were conducted. The data collected from the retrieved questionnaires and field visits was compiled and summarized to propose a useful practice. The result indicates that the encouragement taken based on the knowledge of employees’ demands can alter the target behaviors of employees and organization. The introduction of automation facilitates the improvement of workplace for workers, lower manpower costs, reduce the turnover rate of employees and finally reduce the dependence of company on workforce. The result of this study may provide a reference for employment encouragement for the human resource department of solar power industry. | en_US |