Date of Award
2007
Document Type
Dissertation
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Peterson, Mark F.
Abstract
This dissertation analyzes how the reactions of repatriates and spouses/partners about their new lifestyle and compensation package upon repatriation relate to several repatriate turnover outcomes. U.S.-based multinational organizations often provide global assignees with an extensive benefit package, including such items as housing allowances, foreign-service premiums, tuition for international schools, and club memberships. Once the assignment is over, these additional benefits are necessarily terminated. Results of a qualitative analysis of 14 semi-structured interviews and a quantitative analysis of 37 U.S. repatriated executives and 34 spouses/partners of repatriated executives suggest that repatriate perceptions of distributive justice positively relate to all facets of pay satisfaction (i.e. pay level, pay raise, benefits, and pay structure and administration satisfaction), while procedural justice relates positively to pay structure and administration satisfaction. Overall pay satisfaction, in turn, positively relates to the intentions to increase one's investment in company-specific skills. Repatriate and spouse/partner attitudes about the changes in benefits they encounter upon repatriation are predicted by their children's satisfaction with their new lifestyle. Furthermore, some evidence suggests support for the proposition that overall pay satisfaction and benefit change satisfaction of repatriates and spouses/partners negatively relate to the actual turnover of repatriates. The implications drawn from this dissertation inform theories of social status, spillover, equity, and expatriate adjustment. Multinational organizations employing expatriates may additionally consider the practical implications useful when establishing compensation packages and repatriation programs for international assignees.
Extent
244 p.
Recommended Citation
Thomason, Stephanie J., "How Perceptions of Justice, Children's Lifestyle Satisfaction, and Several Turnover Outcomes Relate to Repatriate and Spouse/Partner Compensation and Lifestyle Satisfaction" (2007). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 1284.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/1284
Identifier
FA00000616
Comments
Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2007.|Dissertation (Ph.D.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2007.