本研究目的旨在希望了解派駐大陸管理人員海外適應狀況、其生涯規劃的影響因素、組織因素對派駐大陸管理人員生涯的影響以及外派事件對其生涯規劃的影響。為達此目的,本研究為描述性與探性的研究,採用質化取向中的個案研究方法,以深度訪談法進行研究。首先透過文獻探討,了解個人生涯規劃以及跨國企業在海外派遣及海外適應等方面相關之理論;其次,依據本研究目的及文獻探討資料形成訪談綱要,根據研究定義選取六位派駐或曾派大陸工作的管理人員,在徵得他們的同意後,逐一進行深度訪談。在訪談後逐一轉錄為逐字稿,進行分析,形成命題,並提出建議。本研究的共有十二項命題。在影響外派人員生涯規劃的因素,則有經濟景氣與環境因素、時機與機運因素、產業特性因素、家庭因素、個人因素等。組織因素對個案外派生涯產生影響的方面,則有組織的性質與型態;組織的氣氛與文化;母公司對子公司的控管、授權、後勤支援以及海外子公司的發展歷程等因素。在外派事件對研究個案生涯規劃的影響方面,則外派事件可使個人累積不同於台灣的工作經驗、加速實現個人的生涯規劃、並且影響個案未來的生涯規劃等。
The purposes of this study are to discuss the adjustment of the expatriate managers in China, the factors affecting their careers, and the influence of the expatriate events on them. In order to reach these purposes, qualtative case study is employed; besides, in-depth interviews are conducted in this descriptive and exploratory study. In this research, it comes at 20 points of discovery and 12 propositions. Furthermore, there are many factors influencing their careers, such as economic, environment, opportunity, industry, family, individual and so on. The influences of the organization factors on their careers are organization nature, industrial nature, organization atmosphere, organization culture, the control of the parent company, the degree of authoriztion, the logistic support offered by the parent company, and the gradations of the subsidiary company development. And the expatriate events help them accumulate the cross-culture experience, to make career plan come true earlier, and influence the coming career.