Impact of Leader-Member Exchange and Team-Member Exchange on Expatriates’ Overseas Adjustment - Psychological Empowerment as a Mediator

• Main Authors: Jun-Cheng Lin, 林俊丞
• Other Authors: Ya-Ping Chiu
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/n3d382

碩士 === 中原大學 === 企業管理研究所 === 103 === Nowadays, under the trends of liberalization and globalization, an company needs a more international vision to broaden its scope of businesses for surviving in the global markets. Therefore, enterprise increases the number of multinational companies, in order to achieve the strategic goal. However, for the purpose of control the subsidiary companies, resulting in increase the importance of expatriates. The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship of leader-member exchange and team-member exchange on expatriates overseas adjustment, and mediation effect of psychological empowerment, to explore the influence of psychological empowerment to overseas adjustment. For data collection, this study selected Taiwanese expatriates as samples and use hand-out paper, Internet survey and e-mail collect questionnaires. A total of 170 valid questionnaires were collected. The results showed that leader-member exchange and team-member exchange will positively affect the overseas adjustment. As well as the psychological empowerment were partially affect the work adjustment. The study also confirmed that the mediation effect of psychological empowerment between leader-member exchange and overseas adjustment. It means that the manager develop a higher exchange relations with employees, the employee perception of increased psychological empowerment thereby reducing uncertainty and increasing adaptive effect. Furthermore, to enhance the relationship between managers and employees can improve employee self-efficacy. Finally, the relationship between team-member exchange in subsidiaries and overseas adjustment can effect through the meaning, competence, and self-determination. It illustrate that expatriates can easily communication and coordination with the local workers, makes expatriates discover the importance of their work roles, as well as better alleviate the pressure of work, in order to increase the adjustment results