A Comparative Study On Patterns Of Consumption Of Staff Welfare

Staff welfare is an important part in salary system. In China, with the deepening of the reform of market economic system and the establishment of the modern enterprise system, the form of staff welfare will also be transferred from its traditional national featuring under the planning economic system. By legislation and macroscopic readjustment, our country has established a sound social security system, and has directed and supervised the further development of staff welfare system so as to improve the living standard of employees. Therefore, the enterprise should attach great importance to and properly set the staff welfare system. Staff welfare can guarantee the interests of employees and stimulate staffs, and a scientific and reasonable staff welfare plans can create powerfully competitive advantage for the enterprise. With the further exploration of staff welfare perfection, more and more managers began to realize that the single distribution can't exert the function of benefits effectively, so they turn to concern staff welfare in its consumption level. They not only attach importance to the staff welfare effects, but also study the way of the consumption patterns of welfare. The research method of this thesis can be divided into three aspects:the field survey is used as the research method; questionnaire method, literature survey method and interview method are used in data collection; in material analysis, the Social Sciences statistical software SPSS 13.0 is used to carry out statistics and questionnaire data analysis, using qualitative methods to analyze the interview data and literature data.This thesis is based on the quantitative research and supplemented by qualitative research, deeply analyzing the current situation, the similarities and differences and the influencing factors of staff welfare in three enterprises of Beihai, the city of GuangXi, and exploring the relationship among staff welfare's patterns of consumption, national politics and regulations, enterprises and personal staffs. The thesis can be divided into four parts. The first part is an introduction and literature review, mainly discussing the proposal of the problem, the significance of the research, the definition of basic concepts, research ideas and research methods and make a review of research findings on staff welfare at home and abroad in enterprises and establishing the theoretical basis of this study. The second part is about the content and the current consumption situation of the welfare of employees. The third part is about the factors influencing the way of consumption selections of staff welfare. The fourth part is the basic conclusions and discussion.Based on the field investigation on three enterprises of Beihai, the author of this thesis gives out 120 pieces of questionnaires, retrieves 100 pieces of questionnaires and interviews 6 ordinary staffs and 2 managers. The basic conclusion of this thesis is that the similarities of the welfare of staff in different enterprises lies in their basic statutory-benefits pattern of consumption, material benefit pattern of consumption and opportunistic benefit pattern of consumption. However, the differences among different enterprises are that enterprise A mainly adapts material benefit pattern of consumption, supplementing the service-type benefit pattern of consumption, enterprise B focus on the collective activities in opportunistic benefit pattern of consumption and enterprise C emphasizes the staff training in opportunistic welfare pattern of consumption. The reason why different enterprises choose different patterns of consumption lies in the adjustment of national macro politics and regulations, education degree by employees and the total numbers of staffs, more even lies in business reasons:salary strategies, the cost of benefits, the function of labor union and the ideas from all staffs.