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  title info:
    title: Factors that facilitate or limit expatriates' adapting and adjusting to another country
  name:
    name part: Shim, In-Sun.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 138 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This study examines the internal and external changes that expatriates experience as they adapt and adjust to living and working in a foreign country, and their learning methods in the host country. As businesses continue to expand into other countries, issues of adjustment will become increasingly important. Work assignments in other countries have not been always successful because of the difficulties employees face when adapting to another culture. Therefore, this study analyzes how expatriate employees change and learn during their time in another country. A questionnaire was developed using a two-phased research design: 1) interviewing persons and screening questions based on a review of the literature, and 2) designing the questionnaire. The questionnaire was composed of six sections and two open-ended questions dealing with demographic factors, the sociocultural adaptation scale (SCAS), facilitating factors for adaptation (FFA), the cultural adjustment scale (CAS), learning methods (LM), the identification scale (IS), initial expectation and reality, and self-identification. The survey was completed via e-mails and the World Wide Web by 70 expatriates of either an automation company or an oil company. The statistical procedures utilized descriptive analysis, one sample t-test, independent t-test, one-way analysis of variance, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple regression analysis. The study found that expatriates changed externally and acquired cross-cultural effectiveness skills. Expatriates did not experience perspective transformation. Age, gender, or cross-cultural experiences appeared to be significant factors in initial adaptation. There were strong relationships between initial adaptation and current adaptation, and between initial adaptation and adjustment. Expatriates appeared to learn the host culture reflectively, but did not agree on nonreflective learning. Those who learned the host culture did so by examining the assump…
  note: by In-Sun Shim.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Educational Human Resource Development".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilm Inc.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 2001.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 89-97).
  subject:
    topic: Major educational human resource development
  identifier: 30-11800 UMI
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