The Impact of Personality and Workplace Friendship of Expatriates on Oversea Adaptation

• Main Authors: Wan Chun Wang, 王婉純
• Other Authors: Shwu Ming Wu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/83749166213458507576

碩士 === 國立高雄應用科技大學 === 人力資源發展系 === 99 === Due to trend of economic globalization, enterprises need to designate better employees to their subsidiaries for helping business. However, the performance of expatriates may be affected by oversea adaptation. Therefore, this study is to examine the personal background differences of expatriates with respect to personality, workplace friendship, and oversea adaptation and to explore the relationships of oversea adaptation with personality and workplace friendship. This study adopted a questionnaire survey approach and the research subjects were 93 expatriates recruiting from different industry. Through one-way ANOVA, correlation and stepwise regression analyses, the findings indicated that male expatriates exhibited more personalities towards extraversion, openness to experience than those of female, whereas those expatriates graduating from college and graduate showed greater extraversion. Next, the lower-level and mid-level managers demonstrated more openness to experience; the expatriates of the manufacturing industry showed greater agreeableness, openness to experience, and conscientiousness than those of the service one. The expatriates in the R & D department demonstrated higher extraversion, agreeableness, and friendship opportunity, while the ones in the manufacturing industry showed better friendship prevalence. Then, the expatriates with age of 41-45 showed better general adaptation and those ones of keeping company with family members and having work experiences more than five years demonstrated better work adaptation. In addition, personalities of extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and workplace friendship were positively related to oversea adaptation of expatriates. The friendship prevalence, neuroticism, and extraversion had positive effects on general adaptation, whereas the friendship prevalence, neuroticism, and conscientiousness had positive effects on interaction adaptation. Then, the friendship opportunity was the best indicator of work adaptation. The implications of this study are to select personalities of extraversion, agreeableness, openness to experience, conscientiousness and low neuroticism for expatriates, and to value workplace friendship for organization, and to enhance the oversea adaptation of expatriates.