International employees plead for education and assistance in adjusting to living foreign cultures.

Autor/in	McFarland, Jean R.
Titel	International employees plead for education and assistance in adjusting to living foreign cultures.
Quelle	Aus: Lasonen, Johanna (Hrsg.): EERA - Network 2 Programme: Network on Vocational Education and Training Research (VETNET) and Academy of Human Resource Development (AHRD). Conference proceedings. Jyväskylä: Univ. of Jyväskylä (1999) S. 253-261Verfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben 23
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
Schlagwörter	Vergleichsuntersuchung; Anpassung; Interkulturelle Kommunikation; Kulturelle Integration; Kulturschock; Arbeit; Integration; Konferenzschrift; Ausländer; Rückwanderer; Ausland; USA; Westeuropa
Abstract	This report makes obvious the need for intercultural communication competence for three types of international employees, and the common thread that links them. It summarizes three sequential studies by the author of international employees and their adjustment to living in unfamiliar cultures. The informants of the studies were 1) United States' expatriates living in Europe, 2) repatriates to the United States from Europe, and 3) impatriates to the United States from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. In each study an ethnographic interview technique was used to collect data for hermeneutic phenomenological analyses. Results indicate that wether employees are leaving their home country, returning, or entering a host country, they experience loneliness, loss, and desperation for assistance in making the cultural adjustment. They report that their emotional status diminishes their performance, and they offer suggestions to enhance the competence of international sojourners and those who work with them. (DIPF/orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2001_(CD)