Research on Organizational Merger and Administrative Efficiency in Taiwan

International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-6, Issue-4, Apr.-2020 http://iraj.in RESEARCH ON ORGANIZATIONAL MERGER AND ADMINISTRATIVE EFFICIENCY IN TAIWAN 1TSANG-TA TSAI, 2CHIA-NAN WANG 1,2National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology, Kaohsiung, Taiwan E-mail: [email protected], [email protected] Abstract - This paper focuses on the administrative effectiveness of organizational mergers.The main research objectives areunderstanding efficiencyaffect, and benefit. This research uses document analysis to do the study. A depth interview questionnaire is designed and used. The results are positive for management efficiency, low integration impact and good benefits. This merger is successful and good contributions. Keywords - Organizational Development, Organizational Merger, Efficiency, Document Analysis. I. INTRODUCTION merged and transformed the administrative organization, is the administrative effectiveness? On December 25, 2010, Taiwan completed the Really, improvement as expected? Alternatively, is election of the mayors of big 5 municipalities, and the actual situation after the merger far from Taiwan officially implemented the administrative expected? The merger of counties and cities is a division of the five metropolitan areas. The so-called major change in the government's administrative big 5 municipalities are Taipei City, New Taipei City, organization. It is also an excellent case study to Taichung City, Tainan City ,Kaohsiung City, etc. verify the theory of organizational development. Among them, Taipei City is an existing municipality Through the research, I hope to gain a better directly under the Central Government, New Taipei understanding of the relationship between City is an independent restructuring system, Taichung organizational transformation and administrative City is a merger and restructuring of Taichung effectiveness. County and Tainan City is a merger and restructuring of Tainan County. Although Kaohsiung City is also a This study conducts more than one year after the county and city merger and restructuring, the former merger of counties and cities. This fashion is a Kaohsiung City was formerly the municipality merger and run-in period. In addition to the practical directly under the Central Government and the former observations for the first time of the history of local Kaohsiung County are provincial city and are the self-government development, it should also provide only special case of big 5 municipalities. reference for similar government organization merger However, in big 5 municipalities, Taichung City, projects in the future. Tainan City, and Kaohsiung City have all carried out This paper focuses on the administrative effectiveness county and city merger projects. The heads of the of organizational mergers, and the main objectives of three cities are seeking to merge the new city this research are: government quickly, and to appease personnel and First: Before the merger of count and city, business disputes in a short period. Resolving governance focus on power operation, and disputes in a political way such as "double bureaucratic culture of two local governments are administrative center" and "Average distribution different,the merger process will inevitably encounter setting". However, scholars believe that this lack of several obstacles, and what is the practice of the design from the administrative (or economic) municipal government to resolve organizational perspective will result in a decrease in administrative efficiency conflicts? How to make different demands efficiency due to lack of policy support. In particular, and establish new ways of power operation? What the "double administrative center" can respond to the effect does the original bureaucratic culture and needs of voters in different regions, but it will cause administrative views have on administrative difficulties in the coordination and integration of the effectiveness after the merger? municipal planning, such as the business that can be signed in ten minutes. After the "organizational Second: Pursuing administrative efficiency is an merger", it may take a day or more, which of course important administrative goal of all levels of affects the administrative efficiency [1]. government. Before the merger of county and city, One of the objectives of the local government's regardless of whether the central or global efforts to merge and reform is to improve the government believes that the rational adjustment of administrative efficiency by transforming the administrative areas and unified powers will be organization. However, the merger of counties and beneficial to the improvement of administrative cities is a rare move in the history of Taiwan's local efficiency. This search hopes to verify whether there autonomy. When the county and the city actually is any drop. Research on Organizational Merger and Administrative Efficiency in Taiwan 33 International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-6, Issue-4, Apr.-2020 http://iraj.in II. LITERATURE REVIEW operation process referred to the ability requirements that must be possessed in order to achieve good 2.1 Review of organizational development theory governance effects, mainly focusing on the internal In terms of the definition and content of factors of the administrative organs. This aspect organizational development, Wu [2] summed up three included the following elements: planning and budget points for the definition of organizational preparation, budget execution ability, the cause of the development: I. The organizational development was government officesystem, professional competence of based on the theory and technology of behavioral and the government officesystem,information disclosure, scientific knowledge. II. The purpose of knowledge management status, and process organizational development was to maintain and simplification. Administrative performance update the organization, and to enhance the orientation referred to the specific behavior presented effectiveness of individuals and organizations. III. through the administrative operation processes, The main object was maintained by organizational included honest, promote enterprise development development as artificial organizational systems and measures, promoted taxpayer satisfaction measures, interpersonal relationships. promoted complainant satisfaction measures, Pan [3] proposed that organizational development promoted service recipient satisfaction measures, was an eternal effort that lasts for a long time. It effective leadership, electronic government, and systematically analyzed the various problems existing innovative performance, etc. in the entire working group of the enterprise, finds out the crux of the problem, and proposed appropriate III. RESEARCH METHOD cooperative management methods. Through the assistance of various change groups, catalytic Document analysis is the most basic research method. personnel, the application of behavioral science By collecting the books, journals, papers, and theories, and techniques to solve problems or improve government related publications, which are related to programs, improved interpersonal, personal county and city mergers as the basis for this research. organizational relationships, and enhance This research will design a questionnaire related to organizational effectiveness.At the same time, the use county and city mergers, and administrative of the group and organization process was focused on effectiveness. With the principal of the Kaohsiung the overall organizational culture, and the changed of City Government Bureau and the principal of the planning, to facilitate the organization's resilience to district as the main part, select a certain number of improve business performance (i.e. organizational interviewees, use written in-depth interviews, collect performance). relevant opinions and then summarize them. The Zhan[4] sorted out the three core theories of main process of this research is shown in Figure1: organizational development: I. Resource dependence theory defined an environmental system as an alliance formed by an organization(or sub-system). Each organization joined the alliance in order to obtain the resources it needs. Organizational efficiency was the key to the survival of the organization, and the level of effectiveness was judged by outside organizations. II. Organizational reinforcement theory was an incentive theory that employee behavior could be shaped, adjusted, or changed by manipulating reward systems, or suppressed by other related behaviors. III. Organizational expectations theory was also an incentive theory, but the focus was on the linksamongeffort-performance, work-reward, and when employees felt that their efforts lead to successful job performance, or organize employees' work performance. They would get their employees with highly motivated when they reported compensation or results. 2.2 Organizational change and administrative effectiveness The administrative efficiency factors related to this study, Shih[5] divided the administrative effectiveness into administrative operation process and administrative performance. The administrative Figure 1. Research architecture flow chart Research on Organizational Merger and Administrative Efficiency in Taiwan 34 International Journal of Management and Applied Science, ISSN: 2394-7926 Volume-6, Issue-4, Apr.-2020 http://iraj.in Among them, the related research topics are as Kaohsiung

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