The Job Attitudes of Automobile Industry Workers under the Restructuring

本研究旨在了解汽车行业员工的工作态度，尤其是当前行业趋势--“转型”、人际关系的变化、工作场所培训的变化对员工工作态度的影响。为此，我们以问卷调查的方式获得了2002年马自达公司298名员工的数据。主要研究结果如下：第一，根据员工的前景，他们的任务执行所需的胜任力正在发生变化。他们认为“领导”能力和“沟通”能力越来越重要。“日常工作踏实”、“在职培训技能”和“合作与团队合作”在受访者中的受推崇程度较低。这些变化似乎缩短了白色员工和蓝色员工之间的距离。第二，工作满意度的主要来源是他们工作的内在回报。但是，工作场所人际关系满意度在蓝色部分比在白色部分更重要。这将弥补蓝军劳动中相对缺乏内在回报的情况。

The aim of this research project is to clarify the workers' job attitudes in the automobile industry, especially how they are affected with the effects of current trends of industry, that is, "restructuring", the changes of the human relations, and the changes of the on-the-job training in their workplace.For this end, we got the data of the 298 workers working for the Mazda Corporation with questionnaire method, in 2002. The main findings are as follows :Firstly, according to the workers' prospects, the competence necessary for their task-performance are changing. They regard the competence of "leadership" and the competence of "communication" as being more and more important. "Steadiness for the routine work", "Skills trained on the job" and "Cooperation and team-work" are forecast being less respected among them. These changes appear to reduce the distance between the white-color workers and the blue-color workers.Secondly, the main sources of job-satisfaction is intrinsic rewards of their work. But, the satisfaction of the human relations in the workplace plays more important role in the blue-colors' section than in the white-colors' section. It would compensate the relative lack of intrinsic rewards in the blue-colors' labor.