PERCEIVED NEED SATISFACTIONS OF DOMESTIC VERSUS OVERSEAS MANAGERS

Compared the perceptions of need satisfactions of (1) American managers currently working in overseas locations as a function of their position in the organizational hierarchy, and (2) the overseas American managers and their domestic counterparts. A need satisfaction questionnaire (see L. W. Porter, 36:2), previously employed in numerous studies to test the Maslow need-hierarchy concept, was used to collect the data from 127 overseas Americans. The domestic manager data used for comparisons were collected in a study by L. W. Porter (see 38:4). Findings indicate that no matter how Ss were classified, job level or domestic and overseas, the autonomy and self-actualization need categories are the least fulfilled. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1969 American Psychological Association.