台灣科技探索(候鳥計畫)執行效益之影響因素之研究

A Study of the Factors Affecting the Performance of Taiwan Tech Trek 2006

莊雪玲(Sheuh-Ling Chuang)

指導教授 ： 謝龍發

中原大學/商學院/企業管理學系/碩士(2007年)

https://doi.org/10.6840/cycu200700148

摘要

海外華人是台灣發展歷程中珍貴的資產之一，為了鼓勵更多的海外華人回台貢獻一己之長，台灣國科會發起一項年度計畫－台灣科技探索（簡稱候鳥計畫），希望透過海外青年利用暑期回台實習及生活體驗的過程中，了解台灣、促進其對台灣的情感，進一步提升其未來回台發展的意願。由於個人有機會參與2006年候鳥計劃，為能夠貢獻一份心力，希望能透過此研究提供建議及修正方案供未來之候鳥計畫執行上的參考。
本研究透過情境學習等相關文獻探討建立本文之研究架構，並以實習前及實習後兩份問卷調查277位參與2006年候鳥計劃的學員們在參與候鳥計畫前後對研究架構中各研究變項（包括：實習內容、計劃安排、溝通、對台灣經濟環境的了解、對台灣文化環境的了解、滿意度以及回台意願）之認知的差異。此問卷調查總共獲得210份有效問卷（佔參加人數的75.81%）。以下為本研究的重要發現：
1. 在研究架構中，推定「實習內容」、「計劃安排」及「溝通」為自變項，「對台灣經濟環境的了解」、「對台灣文化環境的了解」及「滿意度」為中介變項，而最後的應變項為學員們之「回台意願」。透過以線性結構方程式檢驗假設模式，其適配指標為CFI=0.98、GFI=0.92及IFI=0.98，此顯示本研究模式獲得實證支持。
2. 學員們對台灣經濟及文化的了解與對候鳥計畫的滿意度對於提升其未來回台意願扮演著重要角色。若候鳥計劃主辦單位欲提升學員們回台發展的可能性，則必須更加重視如何協助學員們多了解台灣經濟及文化與提升其對候鳥計畫的滿意度。
3. 候鳥計畫學員們在參與計畫期間對實習內容、計劃安排與溝通的認知影響其是否能透過計畫提升對台灣經濟及文化環境的了解與其對計畫的整體滿意度。由於，實習內容、計劃安排與溝通品質是候鳥計畫主辦單位較能夠控制及改善的要素，因此，若欲透過促進學員們對台灣經濟及文化的了解與提升學員其對候鳥計畫的滿意度來提升學們未來的回台發展意願，可由改善實習內容、計劃安排與溝通三項要素著手。在實習內容部份，主辦單位須確認實行內容是否具實際價值、學習性，以及是否符合學員們的需求；在計畫安排部份，主辦單位則須確認團體訓練及實習期間的規劃是否適當，以及在訓練及實習期間所提供的資訊是否具有效用；另外，在溝通方面，主辦單位也必須注意實習內容是否太過困難以至於學員們無法獲得良好的溝通、學員們所分派的產業環境是否適合其產生良好的溝通效果，學員們是否能與實習夥伴、主管及實習單位人員擁有良好的溝通。

關鍵字

海外華人 ； 溝通 ； 實習 ； 台灣科技探索(候鳥計畫) ； 情境學習 ； 滿意度

並列摘要

Overseas Taiwanese are treasurable assets of Taiwan, and provide an original momentum to support the development of Taiwan. For encouraging more overseas Taiwanese to be actually contributive to Taiwan’s development, National Science Council in Taiwan drove an annual program named “Taiwan Tech Trek” (TTT) to encourage overseas Taiwanese youths coming back Taiwan. I am a lucky domestic student to take participant in TTT 2006 and hope to devote some for the program. Thus, we conduct the research to find the key factors of the program and the causal relations between these key factors for amending further TTT program.
This study referenced some relative research literatures to shape the research model and investigated trekkers’ perceptions of the research constructs (i.e. “Practice Content”, “Program Planning”, “Communication”, “Economical Familiarity”, “Cultural Familiarity”, “Satisfaction”, and “Coming Back”) by using both pre-intern and post-intern questionnaires to catch the concrete discrepancy scores of the trekkers between before and after participating the TTT program. Overall, in surveys with all 277 trekkers of the TTT 2006, the study had 210 usable samples that resulting in an effective response rate of 75.81%. The main findings of this study are:
1. By using linear structural equation modeling to test the hypothesized model, the study finds that this research model was well supported because the indicators of model fitness are acceptable (CFI=0.98, GFI=0.92, IFI=0.98). In this model, “Practice Content”, “Program Planning” and “Communication” are antecedent variables; “Economical Familiarity”, “Cultural Familiarity” and “Satisfaction” act as moderating variables; and “Coming Back” plays the role of consequence variable.
2. A trekker’s understanding of both Taiwan economical and cultural environment and his/her satisfaction with TTT program all play important roles to affect the extent of the trekker’s will to come back Taiwan. If the host of TTT want to enhance the possibility of the trekkers’ will to came back Taiwan, they need to pay more attention on helping trekkers understand more about Taiwan environment and letting them feel satisfied with TTT program.
3. Practice content, program planning, and communication within TTT program a trekker perceived have some influence on his/her economical and cultural familiarity during TTT and the satisfaction with TTT. Basically, these three factors were more controllable to the host of the program than a trekker’s economical and cultural familiarity and his/her satisfaction with TTT program. Hence, by promoting the levels of these three amendable factors of the program, the host of TTT can improve the performance of a trekker’s economical and cultural familiarity and his/her satisfaction with TTT program, and then through which the extent of a trekker’s will to come back Taiwan will arise. Moreover, for approaching these, on the side of practice content, the host must concern about if the practice content is valuable, instructive, relevant to the focal trekker’s interesting and education, and conforms to what s/he seeks for; on the side of program planning, the host must concern basically about if the orientation itinerary is suitably arranged, if the information provided during the internship and orientation is useful, and if the internship arranged is suitable; and on the side of communication quality, the host needs to be aware of if the content is too difficult to discuss with, if the environment is not suitable for them to make discussion, and if the supervisors and partners of trekkers were not suitable for them to make good communication quality.

並列關鍵字

Satisfaction ； Communication ； Intern ； Situated learning ； Taiwan Tech Trek ； Overseas Taiwanese

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