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The Overseas Assignment Preferences of Japanese Managers

Department of Management of the University of Western Australia.

Bruce W. Stening

Department of Management of the University of Western Australia.

The overseas assignment preferences of 76 Japanese managers being trained for overseas postings are analyzed, together with their assessments of ten potential destination cities on ten relevant evaluation criteria. A clear preference for Western postings is evident. Discriminant analysis based on the evaluation criteria is used to map the cities, and the discriminant map almost completely explains the mean preferences for the ten cities. The Japanese managers are found to be homogeneous in their preferences and assessments of overseas postings. The mean preferences for the cities are strongly related (over 98% explained variance) to the mean assessments on the evaluation criteria. In contrast, individual differences in preferences for the cities are only weakly related (7% explained variance) to individual differences in assessments on the evaluation criteria.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 21, No. 2, 151-174 (1989)
DOI: 10.1177/0013916589212002


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