Study on the Reasons for Expatriate Manager’s Resignation

• Main Authors: Mei-hui Lai, 賴美惠
• Other Authors: Jer-san Hu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/68419067264994350283

碩士 === 雲林科技大學 === 企業管理系碩士班 === 96 === The investment of Taiwanese businessmen in China not only is for the living itself, but also becomes part of business internationalization and globalization. In addition to an integrated strategic planning, outstanding professionals are needed for a sustainable and cross-world operation in business. However, if an enterprise intends to employ and retain competent employees, it needs to look into several problems that expatriate managers in China usually face. For this reason, the study chose K Company from the hand tool industry that has been investing in China for years as an example, and investigated the reasons that cause its expatriate managers to resign the overseas assignments based on the organizational management of the company, the adaptation ability of expatriate managers and some personal factors. By the investigation, the study was to help the company identify: (1)What characteristics should be focused during the expatriate selection process; (2)If the reasons that result in the leaving of expatriate managers are of organizational management or personal factors. By case study, this study conducted interviews and collected the related data focusing on the problems of the expatriate manager’s leaving in K Company. After encoding, analyzing and arranging the data acquired from the interviews, the study then discovered the following factors that are keys to the expatriate manager’s resignation: (1) insufficient authorization, (2) inadequate professional skills, (3) unsatisfactory salary, (4) recruitment issues, and (5) insufficient training. All of them are categorized to the organizational management problems. In order to stabilize the managing personnel in overseas factories and develop the management efficiency, the study at the same time proposed several suggestions which are also expected to be useful to the human resources management in the hand tool industry.