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Effects of Family Conflict and Social Support on Intention to Stay of Expatriates in Medical Technology Industry
Effects of Family Conflict and Social Support on Intention to Stay of Expatriates in Medical Technology Industry

Author(s): Shu-Ya Chang, Chan-Fu Chuang, Huan-Chang Lin, Hsiang-Chen Hsu
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Sociology, Applied Sociology, Health and medicine and law, Family and social welfare, Migration Studies
Published by: Expert Projects Publishing
Keywords: medical technology industry; expatriates; family conflict; social support; intention to stay;

Summary/Abstract: Expatriates, during expatriation, would appear inadaptable feelings on work, life, and diet in different environment. Besides, expatriates, in medical technology industry, leaving home might neglect the family to result in imbalance between work and family. In this case, work-family conflict reveals the importance on expatriates. Expatriates in medical technology industry would appear psychosocial stress and conflict between work and life due to expatriation. Taking expatriates’ supervisors and expatriates in medical technology industry in southern Taiwan as the research object, total 360 copies of questionnaire are distributed, and the 278 valid copies are retrieved, with the retrieval rate 77%. The research results show that social support presents negative and significant effects on work-family conflict, work-family conflict reveals negative and remarkable effects on intention to stay, and social support appears positive effects on intention to stay. According to the results to propose suggestions, it is expected to provide healthy workplace in medical technology industry to improve expatriates’ work-family conflict and turnover.

  • Issue Year: 2021
  • Issue No: 75
  • Page Range: 104-114
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English