dc.description.abstract | 20 years ago, Taiwanese company found out the potential of business in China and was aware that China market had the advantage of lower cost of social, land and labor. Many of Taiwanese company moved to China and most of them are traditional manufacturing industry. In recent years, China market was expanded and economic increased. The business model extended to service industry and also many kinds of different business area. Which cause the demand of knowledge workers and executive managers are raised. Some of the executive managers will resident in China because of the munificent wage. The goal of this research is to investigate and explore the Taiwanese female managers who leave their hometown to work in China. They live abroad which has different life-style and facing the pressure of the work-family conflict. What kinds of coping strategic did they use.
The objects of this research are five Taiwanese executive female managers who are working in China. In-depth interview method is used for investigating and analyzing the life-style of Taiwanese female in China, the job involvement in their career and the coping strategic of work-family conflict. The findings are as follows:
1. In traditional customs, the position of female was the family caregiver. Even though they were having the job, they should also take care of the family, child at the same time. Female managers bore lots of pressure of family responsibility, job involvement, children minding and child education problem.
2. The working time was extremely much of the Taiwanese female managers who are working in China. They can get the sense of personal achievement and raise up their valuable from the work. They belong to Neotraditional and have the intrinsic job motivation.
3. The Taiwanese female managers are good to use communication skill while facing the work-family conflict. Moreover, they want the atmosphere in the family was harmonious. In most of time, they adjust their psychology by themselves and find out the solution to satisfy all the demand to cope with conflict which keep the family
Therefore this research gives the following advises to the Taiwanese female managers in China: The female managers should looking forward to the modern women in new century. They care more about themselves and always keep in cheerful frame of mind. They find out the suitable way to release the pressure and keep the balance from the family, job and personal life. Enjoying the life can bring more positive power for the family and job.
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