The Effects of Taiwanese Female Expatriates'' Experience on Networking and Career Success:Moderating Effect of Extraversion

• Main Authors: Ye-Chin Ong, 王毓情
• Other Authors: Chin-T Hsu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/692zz3

碩士 === 銘傳大學 === 諮商與工商心理學系碩士班 === 102 === Following the social network theory viewpoint, this study has three objectives: to examine the effects of female expatriates’ experience on career success (subjective and objective career success), to assess the mediating effect of networking (internal and external networking) on the relationship between female expatriates’ experience and career success and to explore the moderating effect of extraversion on the relationships between female expatriates’ experience and networking. A sample of 178 Taiwanese female expatriates submitted the online survey; the findings reveal that female expatriates’ experience is positively related to subjective and objective career success, respectively. Further, the internal and external networking partially mediates the relationship among the female expatriates’ experience, subjective career success and overall number of promotions (except annual salary). Finally, extraversion moderates the relationship between expatriate experience and external networking, but not internal networking, such that the relationship is stronger when individual extraversion is higher (vs. lower). Implications for theory and practice are discussed.