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78% of the respondents felt that they are satisfied with their salary and 55% of them felt happy about the working environment. Based on the interview result, the majority of the R&D engineers thought their income is comparable with other similar background companies. But 24% of participants still felt not satisfied with it due to the less annual bonus or bad overtime pay system. They felt that they never received the regular subsidies even after the submitting the overtime request form. There are 45% of the respondents not satisfied with the working environment. Based on the interview feedback, there are 3 factors which cause this result. Firstly, Eurustech’s office is located at Ubi industrial area where there …show more content…
This indicates that Eurustech did not have a good focus on career planning system for their employees. For statement of “12) I know organization short term and long term plans (42.86%)”, even fewer, only 42.55% respondents agreed on that. Hence Eurustech should implement effective career development plan to all employees. It contains milestones for the achievement of learning goals and direction of the career path. 51.29% of respondents felt that they were given enough authority to make decisions. This is relatively reasonable result as a R&D department. All the decisions were not easy to be made individually because of complicated design work and collaboration with other team members. In order to reach consensus without creating bickering and backfired results, most of time the decision was made in the group …show more content…
This is due to the unique nature of R&D department as compared to other industries. Eurustech’s business depends on the scientific and technological progress, R&D department keep developing the new products constantly. To deliver perfect product with competitive price becomes a challenging task to all R&D engineers. It showed that majority of them were motivated from the self-fulfilment from the job.
Merely about half of the engineer felt that there was clear career advancement for them (46%). Although there was a system of career advancement for all employees, the final decision always can be only done by the management. Many respondents felt that it was made through seniority over merit. That’s probably the reason why the turnover rate for young employees was much higher than old folks. Eurustech management should setup a more subject promotion pathway fairly for all employees and communicate well during performance appraisal. This will assist them build up the mind that seniority isn't the only factor in deciding