Jaw, S. B. 2000. Human Resouce Control and Performance of Foreign Labors in Taiwan. NTU Management Review, 10 (2): 031-069
B. S. Jaw, Professor, Institute of Human Resource Management, National Sun Yat-sen University
Abstract
Recent years have witnessed an increased importion of foreign contract migrants into Taiwan manufacturing industries. The major difference between the management of transactional labor migrants and that of domestic employees is the influence of cultural differences. Therefore it is considered to be emergent to investigate the cross-cultural human resource control over transactional labor migrants.
In this research, based on empirical study of 171 Taiwanese companies, we investigate the relationship between human resource control on transactional labor migrants and their performance. In addition, we also examine the interaction of human resource control and cultural differences on foreign employee's performance.
The results revealed that HR control through selection, appraisal, cultural adaptation, monetary incentives have positive effects on the performance of foreign labors, especially monetary incentives has the most predictive power. In addition, cultural difference have interacting effects with training and monetary incentives on the performance variable. We believe that the results can be taken as important reference to the management of transactional labor migrants.
Keywords
Human resource control Cultural differences performance of labor migrants