A Study on the Job Satisfaction of Expatriate Managers from Taiwan Corporations in china

• Main Authors: Lu Mei-Yea, 盧美月
• Other Authors: Kao Charng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 1998
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/41166644904889096241

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 86 === With the intensified competition in the world''''''''s economy, the globaliza-tion of business has become the only way to ensure its growth. Moreover, asglobalizational operations increase, so does the emphasis on the adaptabili-ty outside the home country for expatriate managers. From the viewpoint of Taiwan managers assigned to Mainland china, this study attempts to examinewhat factors may affect the job satisfaction of expatriate managers and therelationship between those factors and overseas adaptations. In this study, we use individual factors (individual characteristics and motivations behind being expatriate) and organizational factors (expat-riate characteristics and policies of control & support) as independent va-riables, overseas adaptations (living adaptations and work adaptations) as intermediate variables, and job satisfaction (intrinsic and extrinsic satis-faction) as dependent variables. Gathering the data from 100 Taiwanese expa-triate managers in such areas in Mainland China as Beijeng, Tienching, Shan-ghai, Chiangsu, Kuangtung, and Shenjeng, ect., we use descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA, Pearson correlation, canonical correlation, and step-wise regression to analyze the data. The results indicates that:1.Work adapations is better than living adaptations; intrinsic satisfaction is higher than extrinsic satisfaction; as for motivations for being expat- riate, intrinsic rewards