Employees’ Subjective Well-being in Multinationals:Practices and influencing factors from an intrA-organizational context

摘要

The purpose of this paper is to determine the extent to which location has an influence over subjective wellbeing practices. Highly common human psychology and human resource management theories were employed to fish out hypotheses and determine exactly what matters in expatriation. Hofstede，Herzberg and Maslow's more publicized works were adopted as grounds for designing hypotheses and building are search spine across the different cultural demands.
　　Being that the study was a bit of a hybrid in terms of data type dependencies，proving information was a three-way comparison. The comparison was between the research hypotheses，desk research and the questionnaires handed out to subjects and as well as ones conducted through the telephone. With the data gathered，a tallying and rating system was drawn up to consolidate the numbers from the questionnaires. Off that tallying system a grounded conclusion could be drawn，having leveled the playing field. A total of 160 questionnaires were handed out. The findings all showed a strong concurrence between the two research methods as well as the picked hypotheses. The study showed that indeed

目录

Acknowledgements

Abstract

Table of Contents

1．INTRODUCTION

1．1 Background

1．2 Question Statement

1．3 Statement of Problem

1．4 Significance of Study

1．5 Structure of Thesis

2．LITERATURE REVIEW

2．1 Subjective Well-Being

2．1．1 Definition

2．1．2 Common SWB Models

2．1．3 Influencing factors of SWB

2．2 Maslow’s Hierarchy

2．2．1 Definition

2．2．2 Premise of Theory

2．2．3 Maslow’s Hierarchy in SWB

2．3 Hofstede’s Dimensions

2．3．1 Content of the Theory

2．3．2 Conception of the proposal

2．3．3 The Dimensions’ Bearing on SWB

2．4 Herzberg’s Motivation-Hygiene Theory

2．4．1 Understanding the Concept

2．4．2 Development of the core idea

2．4．3 Weight of the Theory’s implications on SWB

3．METHODOLOGY

3．1．Method Selection

3．2．Grounding of the methods

3．3．Questionnaire and Subject Selection Criteria

4．THEORATICAL HYPOTHESlS

4．1 Workload and Work Expectations play a pivotal role in SWB

4．2 Language and Culture are key players in Cross-cultural management

4．3 Power Distance is a major determinant of SWB in a multlnational organization

4．4 Camaraderie and professionalism in the office are some of the determinants of overall happiness in the job

5．RESEARCH FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS

5．1．Case Selection

5．2．Data Collection＆Coding

5．3．Finding／Results

5．3．1．Workload and Work Expectations

5．3．2．Language and Culture

5．3．3．Power Distance

5．3．4．Intra-organizational relationships

6．Conclusion and Limitations

6．1．Conclusion

6．2．Limitations

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