碩士 / 國立清華大學 / 科技管理研究所 / 101 / This paper examines how friendship opportunity provided by foreign subsidiary influences the expatriate adjustment for fitting into the new culture and how adjustment subsequently influences affective commitment to the foreign operation. Data was collected from 155 expatriates, mainly Taiwanese, working in multinational corporations. Hierarchical regressions are used in the statistical analyses.
Results indicated that the opportunity for establishing friendship in workplace was related to expatriate’s affective commitment towards foreign subsidiary through expatriate adjustment. In addition, the results showed that adjustment acted as a full mediator of the relationship between friendship opportunity and affective commitment towards the foreign subsidiary. The results also showed that length of time on current assignment moderates the relationship between adjustment and affective commitment towards the foreign subsidiary. Specifically, friendship opportunity influence expatriate’s emotional attitudes toward the foreign subsidiary through the mediation effect of expatriate adjustment.
There are implications for the settlement of expatriates. First, MNCs are encouraged to provide expatriates with more opportunities to support them establishing close ties with their new coworkers and building up friendships. Second, this study provides evidence showing that MNCs should be aware of the effect of moderation effect of expatriates’ length of time on current assignment when considering expatriates’ commitment toward foreign operation.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TW/101NTHU5230013 |
| Date | January 2013 |
| Creators | Hung, Yupei, 洪瑜珮 |
| Contributors | Liu, Yuwen, 劉玉雯 |
| Source Sets | National Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan |
| Language | zh-TW |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | 學位論文 ; thesis |
| Format | 38 |
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