Title: The Influencing Factors of Employment Satisfaction of Higher Vocational Graduates under the School-Enterprise Cooperation – A Case Study of Weifang Engineering Vocational College
Author: Liu Yitong
Advisor: Dr. Zhang Li
Degree: Master of Business Administration
Major: International Business Management
Faculty: บัณฑิตวิทยาลัย (Graduate School)
Academic year: 2567 (2024)
Published: The 14th National and International Academic Conference “Empowering Innovtion and Sustainability in the Next Normal” 27 November 2021 (pp.1555-1563) Click PDF
Abstract
Higher vocational education institutions are based on the cultivation of vocational skill-oriented talents as a starting point, which is a solid foundation to support China’s innovation and manufacturing. At present, the long-term lack of communication between schools and enterprises has led to higher vocational graduates facing a more severe test in employment. However, the employment satisfaction of graduates is an important index to measure the quality of employment, how to improve the employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates and the and investigation of its influencing factors has become an urgent problem to be solved at present.
The research objectives of this paper were as follows: (1) To analyze the influence of nature of work on the employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates under the school-enterprise cooperation; (2) To analyze the influence of work reward on the employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates under the school-enterprise cooperation; (3) To analyze the influence of development prospect on the employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates under the school-enterprise cooperation; (4) To analyze the influence of school factors on the employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates in school-enterprise cooperation; (5) To examine the differences of employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates. This study took the graduates of Weifang Engineering Vocational College in Shandong Province of China in the past three years as the research subjects, and based on the combination of related literature, empirical analysis of employment satisfaction and its influencing factors was carried out through questionnaire survey and statistics, and SPSS was used to carryout descriptive statistics, independentsamplest-test, one-way ANOVA, correlation analysis and regression analysis on the 617 valid questionnaires.
The results of the study show that： 1) Nature of work has a significant positive effect on the employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates under the school- enterprise cooperation; 2) Work reward has a significant positive effect on employment satisfaction of graduates under the school-enterprise cooperation; 3) Development prospect has a significant positive effect on employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates under the school-enterprise cooperation; 4) School factors have a significant positive effect on the employment satisfaction of higher vocational graduates under the school-enterprise cooperation; (5) Graduates of different genders and parents’educational backgrounds have significantly different levels of employment satisfaction, while there are no significant differences in residence area, income in the last six months and preferred work area.
Keywords: employment satisfaction, higher vocational graduate, school-enterprise cooperation
The Influencing Factors of Employment Satisfaction of Higher Vocational Graduates under the School-Enterprise Cooperation – A Case Study of Weifang Engineering Vocational College /
6317195465 Liu Yitong 2567 (2024) The Influencing Factors of Employment Satisfaction of Higher Vocational Graduates under the School-Enterprise Cooperation – A Case Study of Weifang Engineering Vocational College สารนิพนธ์ (Independent Study), Advisor: Dr. Zhang Li, ปริญญาโท (Master’s Degree), บัณฑิตวิทยาลัย (Graduate School), Master of Business Administration, International Business Management, Bangkok: Siam University