Cross-cultural Human Resource Management: The Study of Foreign Labors in Taiwan

People with different cultural background will cultivate various work values which have critical impact on business operations. Managers in the enterprises possessed of labors with plural nationalities must therefore develop sensitiveness toward different cultures so that they could adjust their management style according to the characteristics of each culture.

Taiwan has approved the import of foreign labors since 1989, but the problems of managing foreign workers have gradually created negative effect on the society. An ideal administrative institution for foreign labors is thus necessary to meet the purpose of importing labors from other countries. In order to investigate the differences of work values between local and foreign workers due to their divergent cultural background, this study will aim to realize the viewpoints of foreign labors toward the operation of organization and their expectation and needs from the job.