A Study of the Effects of Personality Traits for Expatriates on Entrepreneurship and Cross-Cultural Adjustment

• Main Authors: Hsueh-wen Chang, 張學文
• Other Authors: Bih-shiaw Jaw
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2010
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/92236245039370328033

碩士 === 國立中山大學 === 人力資源管理研究所 === 98 === Due to global market competition, to increase business advantage and to reduce the producing cost, more and more companies branch in overseas countries. Therefore, it’s important if the dispatched personnel could follow the policy of the company and create business advantage. Overseas personnel have to face different culture and people. How they adapt to multi-culture would be effected by their personality, background, and experience. If overseas personnel could adapt to multi-culture well would lead to good operation of business policy. Therefore, do the Overseas personnel s have sharp observation on their entrepreneurship, how could they Risk-taking, their determination and locus of control when an enterprise choose Overseas personnel. In the past, Scholars mainly study Personality Traits tocross-cultural adjustment or Personality Traits to entrepreneurship’s effect. However, is overseas personnel’s adaption to the new culture, work, and life effecting their Innovativeness、Risk-taking and Proactiveness This research will study the relations between Overseas personnel’s personality, cross-cultural adjustment, and entrepreneurship by using questionnaire. After the empirical research, the findings as follow: 1. Overseas personnel’s personality has significant positive effect on cross-cultural adjustment. 2. Overseas personnel’s personality has some positive effect on entrepreneurship. 3. Overseas personnel’s personality has mediating effect between through personality and entrepreneurship. 4. The correlations between Overseas personnel’s multi-culture adaption and entrepreneurship is partly positive. 5. Overseas personnel’s background has great effect on their personality is partly proofed to be positive. 6. Overseas personnel’s background has great effect on their cross-cultural adjustment is partly proofed to be positive. 7. Overseas personnel’s background has great effect on their entrepreneurship is partly proofed to be positive.