Examines how sense-making facilitates employee adjustment when employees experience geographic transfers, a form of transition. Studies 91 transferees, finding that transferees experienced unmet expectations during transitions. Finds employees who were better able to make sense of appropriate forms of task communication in new environments tended…

The Immigrant and Refugee Planning Center conducted a survey to determine the progress of Indochinese refugee resettlement in Orange County, California, in 1983-84 and to compare it with that reported in a similar survey conducted in 1981. As in 1981, the results of interviews with employers, residents, and refugees were compiled in four critical…