Effect of job transfer on american women

This study was conducted to investigate the reasons why some employees and their families are willing to move and others are not, to examine what conditions make moving easy versus difficult, and to assess the effects of a mobile lifestyle. Ten Employee Relocation Council member companies were invited to participate by providing the independent researchers with the names of employees who had been transferred in the previous three to five years. The companies were representative of U.S. companies at large. Approximately 3,000 names were submitted, and employees from each of 10 participating companies were randomly selected and invited to be participants. Questionnaires were mailed in the fall of 1977, and of the 500 families identified, 348 or 70% responded. These employees were then recontacted in the fall of 1979. Second wave questionnaires were returned by 80% of the first wave families. The first wave questionnaire sent to each employee included a separate instrument for the spouse (in this sample, all wives), and the children (completed by a parent). The measures consisted of predominantly short answer or Likert scale items, with no open-ended questions. Aside from demographic