近幾年來，許多組織已經開始在尋求方法來重新聚焦於核心競爭力。而委外企業某些功能將是一個很好的選擇，人力資源功能委外就是一個很好的例子，而訓練委外則是其中常見的一個手法。

　　在這篇論文裡，以台灣高科技產業作為最主要的一個調查對象。在這裡選擇高科技產業的原因是，台灣的高科技產業近幾年來快速的成長，且高科技產業都在尋求方法來提高競爭力。對於這些高科技產業來說，訓練不是他們主要的核心功能，但是訓練卻可以間接提升競爭力，因此如果這些產業想要提升競爭力，以及改善訓練品質，可以選擇將訓練功能委外給提供訓練的廠商。

　　然而，在訓練委外的一個過程中，不能忽視的是夥伴關係在這其中所扮演的一個重要角色，有兩點必須注意。第一，哪些因素或去影響到雙方所建立的夥伴關係。第二，如何去衡量建立夥伴關係之後，整體組織績效的提升。在台灣，很少人去探討委外訓練的情形，更少人去了解夥伴關係在這其中所扮演的角色。因此，這篇論文使用簡單隨機抽樣的方法，對台灣高科技產業做問卷發放的動作，來探討台灣高科技產業委外訓練的情形，原因，因素，以及衡量結果。

　　在本篇論文中，契約明確性、溝通行為、獨特性訓練、夥伴關係以及委外訓練績效都一一被探討其中的關係以及是否具有明顯的影響。而調查出來的結果發現，台灣訓練委外的情形已經很普遍。除了契約明確性不會對夥伴關係有明顯影響外，其他因素如溝通行為、獨特性訓練皆會對夥伴關係有顯著的影響。而建立良好的夥伴關係也將會影響到公司整體表現績效。研究的最後與實務專家做一個討論，探討出這些結果背後的管理意涵。

　Many organizations make efforts in outsourcing and find it helpful to enable organizations to focus on their core competencies. Therefore, outsourcing is generally used in many business functions, like human resource management and so on.

　This study focused on outsourcing training in high-tech industries in Taiwan. High-tech industries are quickly growing and many high-tech organizations consider training function is important but not core functions. One of methods they can use to refocus on core competencies is outsourcing this function.

　Here, two points need to be made. One is what factors will affect partnership. Another one is how to measure outcomes after building partnership. Hence, this study uses simple random sampling and questionnaires to high-tech industries to examine the outsourcing situation, the reasons, and measurement about partnership when outsourcing training in Taiwan.

　Here, about 75% high-tech companies outsourced training in Taiwan. Expect contractual specificity, communication behavior and idiosyncratic training affected partnership. And Partnership affected outsourcing training performance. The relationship among these dimensions was investigated, and then the results were explained and compared with other researchers.

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