The Relationship Between Cross Cultural Adaptation and Turnover Intention: A Study of Lao Employees in Foreign Enterprises

Abstract

With a variety of local advantages, a large number of foreign investments into Laos, Lao's employees in foreign enterprise began to be concerned about their turnover. However, research in this part is still blank. Since most of the researches based on the employees and the organization are belong to the same cultural background, we try to find out if the cultural factor also is one of important factor which impact to local employee's turnover intention. The relationship between cross cultural adaptation and turnover intention is main discussing topic on this study, local employee in foreign enterprise as the research subjects for this study. Based on survey data to calculate the cross-cultural adaptation index and turnover intention index, then regression analysis to find out the relationship of both index. The results proved that cross cultural adaptation and turnover intention was negatively correlated. This means cross-cultural adaptation is not a small obstacle but it's one of the most important factors to determine Laos's employees who work in foreign enterprises to leave or stay.