Different Attitudes of Internship Programs between Employers and Students

• Main Authors: Wei-Chen Hsieh, 謝瑋真
• Other Authors: I-Heng Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/44310393413529810754

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 101 === The employment rate of youth kept increasing every year, both employers and faculty mention a way to decrease the gap between school study and employment- internship programs. However, look back to Taiwan’s literature review and thesis, there were not so many studies related to the topic. Thus, present study aims to Taiwanese society to study the different attitudes between employers and students. The U.S. scholars Mark Hall, Gerald Stiles, John Kuzma and Kevin Elliott’s (1995) questionnaire were used in present study. The questionnaire consisted of 5 dimensions, general attitudes and support, students learning outcomes, immediate payoff, academic requirement and Employment/ Students/ Advisors’ roles. Electronic questionnaire and paper questionnaire were both used to collect the data. After collection, we were using two different analyze skill (i.e. T-test and MANOVA) to examine the disparity and consistency between groups. The statistical result shows that discrepancy attitudes indeed existed between employers and students, the discrepancy attitude especially between employers and students with no internship experience. In present study, we tried to explain the reasons for the disparity and also consistency attitudes. We bring up some suggestions to human resource people, faculty and students, hoping to better the internship programs and to create the win-win situation.