Determinants of the foreign professionals’ performance in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Seliverstova Natalia, 施娜娜
• Other Authors: Ping-Der Huang
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99981693020547418452

碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 100 === To find a job for a foreigner in Taiwan isn’t easy, and to be successful at work is the most difficult for everyone. And I’m not the exception, that’s why we think “Determinants of the foreign professionals” performance in Taiwan” is contemporary theme. It is worthy to analyze what are the criteria of the good job performance for the Taiwanese. This thesis investigates the reasons of the successful foreigners' job performance in Taiwan. Therefore we obtained interview with some successful people to examine the phenomena: Kseniya Mardaeva (GIGABYTE), Erenzhen Kornusov (P. Mauriat/Albest Musical Instruments), James Davidson Michael (the project Taipei Taoyuan International Airport Link), Mike Maydana (the Liankuann Enterprises Co.Ltd.), Ricardo N. Cuevas Villalobos (Polylight Electronics Co., Ltd.). In this research we intend to study determinants of foreign professionals' performance: how to achieve success in work in Taiwan, how to adopt yourself in Taiwan, how to build productive and intensive relationship with the supervisor. These are the major problems of this study. In order to expose these problems we have taken following steps: establishing research goal, establishing research questions, previous studies overview, defining sample universe, marking out representative sample, organize interview, analyze the data and interpreting the results. The analysis of foreigner’s performance will explore deeper understanding of achieving efficiency at the working place. Moreover it will also help people willing to stay in Taiwan to improve their individual characteristics, to get benefits from their strengths and to turn their weaknesses into strengths. There are three problem statements we are focusing on. The first one is the need to adjust our behavior to new cultural environments in order to reduce job uncertainty, because the greater the cultural sensitivity of the foreigner is the greater is his job performance. We got complete answer: it’s necessary to learn Chinese language, change yourself to the local culinary habits, dress yourself like a local and respect their customs, be prepared for the changes, respect the local law. The second one is creating productive relationship with the supervisors. Our foreign professionals suggest the following: show respect, don’t be afraid of your boss, don’t try to hide problems, maintain your boundaries, be positive, demonstrate initiative, embrace your strengths, make a plan, don’t harbor resentments, don’t personalize the impersonal, accept responsibility for your own behavior. The next determinant of successful performance is: how well performance is evaluated, how well feedback is provided and how well performance improvement achieved has also strong impact on the foreign professionals' performance in Taiwan.