Wandering at The Crossroads? Phenomenological Study on Career Development and Choice Process of Taiwanese Managers dispatched to Mainland China / 徘徊海峽兩岸的十字路口?台商派駐大陸管理人員生涯發展與抉擇歷程之現象學研究

碩士 / 國立臺灣師範大學 / 教育心理與輔導學系 / 104 / Abstract
The purpose of this study was to make a thorough inquiry about their career transition experiences of Taiwanese managers dispatched to Mainland China. The researcher used purposive sampling to select six participants who were 35 to 55-year old with over 2-year working experience of dispatched to Mainland China. Semi-structured interview was appied to explore their mentality of career transition experience, to understand the impact of their transition factors and to discover the related influence and meaning for the dispatched managers. The researcher implied qualitative method and phenomenological method as basis of data analysis. The steps included empathic immersement, meaning units, constituent themes, situated structure, general structure for understanding study participants’ career transition experiences.
The results indicated that participants’ motivation in career transition includes personal factors, environmental factors and interaction of personal and environmental factors. All the participants over the course of career transition challenge and difficulties included: (1) disturb from unexpected; (2) individual ability and willingness; (3) concerns form family issues; (4) problem and attack of acculturation; and (5) caring of career development and return chance.
Participants’ coping strategies in the process of career transition includes: (1) well grasping industry’s and company’s situation; (2) life-long learning and enhance competitiveness; and (3) adapting culture and life abroad. In the meanwhile, the Human Resource Department in the company can provide: (1) reviewing and renewing the oversea dispatching policy and regulation; (2) enhancing employees’ abilities and
motivation through in service training;(3) providing competitive dispatching support program; and (4) setting up management system for dispatching employees.
Implications of the study indicated that the following aspects are important for dispatched managers: (1) continuing career exploration; (2) self-evaluation, especially personal potentials; (3) flexible mindset on career change; (4) accumulating ability to face pressure and challenge; and (5) creating the meaning of life. Finally, limitations and recommendations for this study were provided.
Key words: oversea dispatch, human resource, career transition, phenomenology

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/104NTNU5328036
Date January 2016
CreatorsHsu, Wei-Chin, 徐位瑾
ContributorsTien, Hsiu-Lan, 田秀蘭
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format177

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