Examining the Relationship between Leader-Member Exchange and Work-Family Conflict in the Context of Expatriate Assignment: Using Perceived Organizational Support and Workload as Mediators

• Main Authors: Bich-Ngoc Tran, 陳氏玉碧
• Other Authors: Yaping chiu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/48z47h

碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 103 === Nowadays, the growth of global business and benefits of global markets make the demand for expatriates increase because multinational companies (MNCs) often use them to run its business in host countries. It is obvious that the importance of expatriates’ performance promotes studies of them in diverse aspects, such as predictors for selection, expatriate commitment and willingness, organizational supports and expatriate failure’s factors. However, few empirical researches are carried out to test the relationship between expatriate job performance and work-family conflict (WFC) while family also plays an essential part in every corner of expatriate life. When an expatriate works abroad, he adapts to new workplace and does his task at the same time besides facing emotional deprivation. Hence, the expatriate has to solve the conflict of role between work and family unless it may lead him to decrease his productivity and work spirit because of increasing stress. In addition, causes of WFC remain questionable; however leader-member exchange (LMX) can reason it through workload and perceived organizational support (POS). Given that fact, this study would like to empirically examine deeper about the relationships among LMX, workload, POS, WFC and job performance. In details, it firstly investigates the effects of LMX on WFC through mediating roles of workload and POS. After that, it explodes whether WFC negatively affects job performance. To do so, it applies the convenient sampling approach to distribute questionnaires to Taiwanese expatriates. In the end, 179 answers are collected and 170 of them are valid to research. In conclusion, empirical results show that the quality of LMX is negatively related to workload and positively related to POS. Also, it confirms that workload is a mediator in the relationship between LMX and WFC, but POS is not. As for WFC and job performance, a negative relationship is found.