Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
1120914 Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 2012 8 Pages PDF
Abstract

Due to the fierce competition globally, most of the manufacturing companies seek for low cost manufacturing resources globally to keep their competitiveness. In most of the cases, the core management team of these manufacturing factories is consisted of expatriates from other countries. The retention of these expatriate is one of the most troublesome issues in human resource management in these companies. In this paper, the effects of organizational supports on the retention of expatriates were studied. We collected information through survey of more than 50 Taiwanese companies in Vietnam and interviewed 10 executive managers who are working at Taiwanese companies in Vietnam. After analyzing the results of survey and interviews, the finding of this research are:.1.The perceived organizational supporting: expatriate trainings mostly focus on technical skills but not skills on crossing cultural barriers and other living information.2.The perceived organizational supporting has positive effect on the oversea adjustment.3.The oversea adjustment has positive effect to their intention to stay in Vietnam.4.The perceived organizational supporting is showing positively influencing to their intention to stay in Vietnam. The oversea adjustment is a mediating factor between the perceived organizational supporting and their intention to stay in Vietnam.The results of this research suggest that holistic support from the company is a key factor for expatriate to stay comfortable in Vietnam. That would also be the key to the successful business of the company in Vietnam.

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