Research in the Impacts of Perceived Organization Support and Psychological Workplace Stress on Expatriate Adjustment and Job Satisfaction.
| Autor: | Pei-yu Kao, 高珮育 |
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| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
| Druh dokumentu: | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Popis: | 95 With the development of internationalization, the enterprises go abroad to broaden the scope of their business. The status of expatriate is getting more and more important. This research integrates the following variables: perceived organization support, psychological workplace stress, expatriate adjustment and job satisfaction. After examining the relationships between these four variables, this research hopes to help the enterprises understand the psychology of expatriates and to help them to adjust to the foreign environment and enhance their job satisfaction accordingly. 219 questionnaires were collected as valid samples. After a hierarchical-regression analysis, the results show that the expatriates’ perceived organization support has a negative impact on the psychological workplace stress, the psychological workplace stress has a negative impact on the expatriate adjustment, and the expatriate adjustment has a positive impact on job satisfaction. This research also found that the expatriate adjustment has a mediation effect between the psychological workplace stress and job satisfaction. The contributions of this study include two sides, academic and practical. It can help enterprises to understand expatriates’ perceived organization support and psychological workplace stress. It provided implications for organizations to establish appropriate mechanism to help expatriates, then raise the expatriates’ job satisfaction. Lastly, future research directions are recommended. |
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