Organizations often use various forms motivational methods. Motivation is known to be a type of force which effects on direction, level, and persistence of employees’ effort on performance. The direction, individual’s decision when presented with choices, level, the amount of effort, and persistence, the length of time one puts in, are crucial factors that decide the performance of the organization as a whole. There are various methods in how to improve the motivations: pay for performance, merit pay, skill based pay, gain sharing, and many more. Job designs and alternative work arrangements are also very important in increasing or decreasing employees’ motivation. Our group decided to focus on the motivational factors and the reality of it in a real business organization. We came across an acquaintance who currently works as Hyundai Heavy Industry (HHI). He told us about the unique culture of foreign dispatch system, common in industrial companies. According to our interviewee, foreign dispatch systems have clear pros and cons and that organizations use various methods in order to satisfy the ones who work abroad. Hyundai Heavy Industry is the world's largest shipbuilding company, headquartered in Ulsan, South Korea. It has seven business divisions: Shipbuilding, Offshore & Engineering, Industrial Plant & Engineering, Engine & Machinery, Electro & Electric Systems, Construction Equipment, and Green Energy. HHI was awarded a trophy to celebrate an achievement of exporting one hundred million dollars in 1974. Continuously, HHI was awarded one billion dollars trophy, five billion dollars trophy, ten billion dollars trophy, and fifteen billion dollars trophy before 2009, in the same field. HHI is one of the major companies which have more than twenty-five-thousand employees. Hyundai Heavy Industries Co., Ltd established a manufacturing plant of wind power generator in February 2009. Our interviewee currently works in the wind power generator...
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