Une étude communicationnelle de l’expérience émotionnelle de travailleurs expatriés à Taïwan
Grounded in Montréal School of organizational communication research, this qualitative study investigates the sources of emotions that are perceived as making a difference in the adaptation of occidental expatriate workers in Taiwan by viewing these sources as “agents.” Thus, this study uncovers how the agents are seen as influencing expats’ emotional experience during their adaptation to Taiwanese professional culture, showing that many organizational aspects are viewed as sources of negative emotions. For example, expats’ accounts show that they treat adherence to hierarchy and organizational rules and rigid work schedules as agents that provoke negative emotions during their adaptation to their new environments. In addition, this study shows that the emotions were also, for the expatriated workers, seen as agents that they mobilized to justify their actions during this particular period of their lives.
adaptation Expatriates adaptation emotions Taiwan agency Montreal School emotional experience organizational communication