China Southern Airline Shenyang Overhaul Department Employee Motivation Study

China civil aviation industry has made remarkable progress since China adopted reform and opening-up policy in late of 1970s, the number of planes have increased many times than before. The sustainable and healthy development also brought the prosperity of civil aviation maintenance industry. In addition, as China enters into WTO, many foreign companies have established joint ventures for aircraft maintenance. With advanced management mechanism and superior staff, these joint ventures have brought great challenge to our civil aviation maintenance enterprise.The stereotype of plan economy still exerts influence on the human resources management of civil aviation maintenance enterprises after a long time of plan economy. Human resources management can only be adjusted step by step with the reform. To some extent, this lag will prevent other resources of enterprises from being fully used.The article chooses China Southern Airline Shenyang Overhaul Department as object. Number analysis, qualification analysis and age structure analysis were employed to give a general idea about the current situation of human resources of the Overhaul Department. After basic analysis, employee satisfaction survey was introduced to reveal the problem existing in the human resource management system, then gave some suggestions to perfect Overhaul Department human resource management system, and increase the competition ability of Overhaul Department in maintenance market.The article consists of six parts:The first section put the question, point out the reason to study motivation of Overhaul Department employee, then introduce the meaning and method of study.The second section is about the general introduction of motivation theory including the meaning, content and some relevant theory.The third section simply introduce Overhaul Department including the development process and the existing problem.The fourth section put emphasis on Overhaul Department employee motivation survey and analysis, then draw the conclusion.The fifth section put forward some reform suggestions.The sixth is the final speech of the article.