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 Volume 6, Issue 3 (March 2019), Pages: 1-11

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 Original Research Paper

 Title: An investigation about the satisfaction and loyalty of workers in Taiwanese enterprises located in Vietnam

 Author(s): Thanh-Tuyen Tran *

 Affiliation(s):

 Scientific Research Office, Lac Hong University, No. 10 Huynh Van Nghe, Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai, Vietnam

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9900-8592

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.03.001

 Abstract:

Since open stage, Vietnam has created a very potential environment for all enterprises around the world to invest in. Statistics has shown that Taiwanese government has encouraged its business people to invest in Vietnam and other Southeast Asian countries. This study is to give better understanding for employee perception towards Taiwanese entrepreneurs in addressing the factors which will significantly improve the business success. After a long process to investigate workers in those companies by using multiple statistical analyses, including exploratory factor analysis, reliability analysis, mean point value, and multiple linear regressions. The results have shown that the most significant factors affecting laborers’ loyalty towards Taiwanese companies in Vietnam were salary and compensation, labor safety and welfare, and management style. This research provides useful findings to managers who can take reference in the purpose of supporting policies for the laborers, who are directly working in the Vietnamese industrial zone. 

 © 2019 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Job satisfaction, Taiwanese enterprise, Laborer, Vietnamese industrial zone

 Article History: Received 3 September 2018, Received in revised form 1 January 2019, Accepted 6 January 2019

 Acknowledgement:

No Acknowledgement

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Tran TT (2019). An investigation about the satisfaction and loyalty of workers in Taiwanese enterprises located in Vietnam. International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(3): 1-11

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