The Adjustment of Japanese Expatriates to Living and Working in Britain
调查了91名在伦敦工作的日本外派经理和专业人士，发现他们的工作幸福感和心理健康低于其他样本，且适应过程呈现U型曲线模式，对国际人力资源管理有启示。
SUMMARY Ninety‐one Japanese managers and professionals on international assignments in the London offices of trading houses and insurance companies responded to a wide‐ranging survey on work and non‐work adjustment. Dependent variables included standardized measures of adjustment, well‐being, mental health and modes of adjustment (personal change and role innovation). In comparisons with samples from other studies, the expatriates experienced lower work well‐being and mental health, and, compared with a sample of United Kingdom domestic job changers, engaged in less role innovation but recorded higher personal change, especially in their values. Predictor variables, including predeparture experience, family factors, self‐rated job performance, self‐efficacy, work‐non‐work spillover, social interaction and perceived company purpose in the assignment, were found to be differentially related to outcome measures. A new method of retrospectively recording changes in feelings over time in the work and non‐work domains was also applied, supplying tentative evidence for a negative shift in affect on arrival, especially in the non‐work domain, and a further fall after arrival, especially in the work domain. In most cases, this latter dip was followed by a recovery, providing some evidence in favour of the U‐curve hypothesis. Implications for theory and practice are reviewed.