Development Program for Millennial Successors: A Case Study of Factory Y in High-Tech Manufacturing

Abstract

To develop necessary skills knowledge and attitude in employees and enable them to perform their duties effectively it is a critical business issue the enterprises that pursue sustainable development faced especially in high-tech manufacturing In recent years many researchers explored the process of organizational adaptation and role adjustment of newcomers but most of them are discussed from organizational adaptation or socialization through the perspective of observers This case study aims to investigate how to create and implement the development program(program M) includes soft skills and corporate value training activities for millennial successors and then measure their degree of organizational socialization and organizational identification within workplace Through interviews with 6 newly employed engineers who had already completed all training activities in program M the results show soft skills courses that highly connected with practical work could bring the positive feeling to trainees and also provide them with the information about performance proficiency; secondly trainees have no feeling toward corporate value training activities and there is no directly relevant to their organizational identification; finally if the employer could arrange a program for the key talents it will bring them positive feelings This study could be a reference for designing newcomers development program and evaluation methods in the enterprise There’re some directions could be provided to future researchers including involving more objective index enlarging the scope of research objects extending the period of research to verify the effect on the talent retention etc Key words: Successors Soft Skills Corporate Value Organizational Socialization Organizational Identification

Date of Award	2019
Original language	English
Supervisor	Yu-Lin Wang (Supervisor)