dc.description.abstract | Internationalization and globalization have been well-known concepts these years. To expand overseas markets or to lower the production costs, it is necessary for international enterprises to send expatriates to host countries. However, expatriates would face culture shock after arrivals, that could influence expatriates’ adjustment and even the success or failure of expatriate assignments. Therefore, this study hopes to give valuable advices to international enterprises through doing the research about factors that could influence expatriate adjustment, these factors includes spouse, social support, organizational support, organizational commitment, job characteristics, interpersonal interaction and host country factor.
The study used meta-analysis to explore the correlations between these factors and expatriate adjustment on the basis of Bhaskar-Shrinivas, Harrison and Luk (2005)’s research, and the results were as below:
(1)Spouse adjustment and expatriate adjustment, general adjustment, work adjustment, interaction adjustment; family support and expatriate adjustment, general adjustment, interaction adjustment; training support and expatriate adjustment; organizational commitment and expatriate adjustment, general adjustment, work adjustment, interaction adjustment; job role discretion and general adjustment, work adjustment, interaction adjustment; workplace friendship and general adjustment, work adjustment, interaction adjustment were positive correlations.
(2)Training support and general adjustment; job role novelty and general adjustment; job role ambiguity and general adjustment, work adjustment, interaction adjustment; job role conflict and general adjustment, work adjustment, interaction adjustment; culture novelty and expatriate adjustment, general adjustment, work adjustment, interaction adjustment were negative correlations.
(3)Family support and work adjustment; training support and work adjustment, interaction adjustment; job role novelty and work adjustment, interaction adjustment; job role ambiguity and expatriate adjustment had no influences between each other. | en_US |