IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/intman/v28y2022i3s107542532200028x.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Adjustment and work outcomes of self-initiated expatriates in the United Arab Emirates: Development and testing of a model

Author

Listed:
  • Singh, Sanjay Kumar
  • Tarba, Shlomo Y.
  • Wood, Geoffrey
  • Bozionelos, Nikos
  • Del Giudice, Manlio
  • Pereira, Vijay
  • Latan, Hengky

Abstract

Drawing upon anxiety/uncertainty management (AUM) theory and organization support theory (OST), we developed and tested a model on how globally mobile talent – in this instance, self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) - stay and perform well in the organization. We collected data from 276 superior-subordinate dyads, which were analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). Our results suggest that role clarity mediates the influence of perceived organizational support and work adjustment. Furthermore, we found that work adjustment mediates the influence of role clarity on task performance and organizational citizenship behavior. We draw out the implications for advancing theory and practice in expatriate management.

Suggested Citation

  • Singh, Sanjay Kumar & Tarba, Shlomo Y. & Wood, Geoffrey & Bozionelos, Nikos & Del Giudice, Manlio & Pereira, Vijay & Latan, Hengky, 2022. "Adjustment and work outcomes of self-initiated expatriates in the United Arab Emirates: Development and testing of a model," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 28(3).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:intman:v:28:y:2022:i:3:s107542532200028x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.intman.2022.100953
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S107542532200028X
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.intman.2022.100953?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Shay, Jeffrey P. & Tracey, J. Bruce, 2009. "Expatriate adjustment and effectiveness: The mediating role of managerial practices," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 15(4), pages 401-412, December.
    2. Becker, Jan-Michael & Ismail, Ida Rosnita, 2016. "Accounting for sampling weights in PLS path modeling: Simulations and empirical examples," European Management Journal, Elsevier, vol. 34(6), pages 606-617.
    3. Guo, Ying & Rammal, Hussain Gulzar & Pereira, Vijay, 2021. "Am I ‘In or Out’? A social identity approach to studying expatriates’ social networks and adjustment in a host country context," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 558-566.
    4. Suutari, Vesa & Brewster, Chris, 2000. "Making their own way: international experience through self-initiated foreign assignments," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 35(4), pages 417-436, January.
    5. Du, Yana & Zhang, Li & Tekleab, Amanuel G., 2018. "Job strains, job control, and POS on employee performance: An interactionist perspective," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 213-219.
    6. Fan, Di & Zhu, Cherrie J. & Huang, Xinli & Kumar, Vikas, 2021. "Mapping the terrain of international human resource management research over the past fifty years: A bibliographic analysis," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 56(2).
    7. DeConinck, James B., 2010. "The effect of organizational justice, perceived organizational support, and perceived supervisor support on marketing employees' level of trust," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 63(12), pages 1349-1355, December.
    8. Wong, Yui-Tim & Ngo, Hang-Yue & Wong, Chi-Sum, 2006. "Perceived organizational justice, trust, and OCB: A study of Chinese workers in joint ventures and state-owned enterprises," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 41(4), pages 344-355, December.
    9. Lauring, Jakob & Selmer, Jan, 2018. "Person-environment fit and emotional control: Assigned expatriates vs. self-initiated expatriates," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 27(5), pages 982-992.
    10. Shao, Jun Jie & Ariss, Akram AL, 2020. "Knowledge transfer between self-initiated expatriates and their organizations: Research propositions for managing SIEs," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 29(1).
    11. Kim, Kwanghyun & Slocum Jr., John W., 2008. "Individual differences and expatriate assignment effectiveness: The case of U.S.-based Korean expatriates," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 109-126, January.
    12. Riggle, Robert J. & Edmondson, Diane R. & Hansen, John D., 2009. "A meta-analysis of the relationship between perceived organizational support and job outcomes: 20 years of research," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 62(10), pages 1027-1030, October.
    13. Singh, Sanjay Kumar, 2019. "Territoriality, task performance, and workplace deviance: Empirical evidence on role of knowledge hiding," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 10-19.
    14. Furusawa, Masayuki & Brewster, Chris, 2019. "The Determinants of the Boundary-spanning Functions of Japanese Self-initiated Expatriates in Japanese Subsidiaries in China: Individual Skills and Human Resource Management," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 25(4).
    15. Paillé, Pascal & Raineri, Nicolas, 2015. "Linking perceived corporate environmental policies and employees eco-initiatives: The influence of perceived organizational support and psychological contract breach," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 68(11), pages 2404-2411.
    16. Nikos Bozionelos & Sanjay Kumar Singh, 2017. "The relationship of emotional intelligence with task and contextual performance : More than it meets the linear eye," Post-Print hal-02311995, HAL.
    17. Valenzuela, Marcus A. & Flinchbaugh, Carol & Rogers, Sean Edmund, 2020. "Can organizations help adjust?: The effect of perceived organizational climate on immigrants' acculturation and consequent effect on perceived fit," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 26(3).
    18. Hussain, Taiba & Deery, Stephen, 2018. "Why do self-initiated expatriates quit their jobs: The role of job embeddedness and shocks in explaining turnover intentions," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 27(1), pages 281-288.
    19. Chen, Yu-Ping & Shaffer, Margaret A., 2017. "The influences of perceived organizational support and motivation on self-initiated expatriates’ organizational and community embeddedness," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 52(2), pages 197-208.
    20. Abdul Malek, Marlin & Budhwar, Pawan, 2013. "Cultural intelligence as a predictor of expatriate adjustment and performance in Malaysia," Journal of World Business, Elsevier, vol. 48(2), pages 222-231.
    21. Zhou, Qin & Martinez, Luis F. & Ferreira, Aristides I. & Rodrigues, Piedade, 2016. "Supervisor support, role ambiguity and productivity associated with presenteeism: A longitudinal study," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 69(9), pages 3380-3387.
    22. Samuel Davies & Albert Kraeh & Fabian Froese, 2015. "Burden or support? The influence of partner nationality on expatriate cross-cultural adjustment," Journal of Global Mobility, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 3(2), pages 169-182, June.
    23. Chatterjee, Sheshadri & Chaudhuri, Ranjan & Vrontis, Demetris, 2022. "Managing knowledge in Indian Organizations: An empirical investigation to examine the moderating role of jugaad," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 141(C), pages 26-39.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Sanjay Kumar Singh & Shlomo Y. Tarba & Geoffrey Wood & Nikos Bozionelos & Manlio del Giudice & Vijay Pereira & Hengky Latan, 2022. "Adjustment and work outcomes of self-initiated expatriates in the United Arab Emirates," Post-Print hal-04325598, HAL.
    2. Dimitrova, Mihaela & Chia, Sherwin Ignatius & Shaffer, Margaret A. & Tay-Lee, Cheryl, 2020. "Forgotten travelers: Adjustment and career implications of international business travel for expatriates," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 26(1).
    3. Yasmin Nur Nahar & Ralf Bebenroth, 2022. "Emerging Market Expatriates in Japan during Covid-19 Pandemic," Discussion Paper Series DP2022-04, Research Institute for Economics & Business Administration, Kobe University.
    4. Guo, Ying & Rammal, Hussain Gulzar & Pereira, Vijay, 2021. "Am I ‘In or Out’? A social identity approach to studying expatriates’ social networks and adjustment in a host country context," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 136(C), pages 558-566.
    5. Du, Yana & Zhang, Li & Tekleab, Amanuel G., 2018. "Job strains, job control, and POS on employee performance: An interactionist perspective," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 82(C), pages 213-219.
    6. Kubovcikova, Annamaria & van Bakel, Marian, 2022. "Social support abroad: How do self-initiated expatriates gain support through their social networks?," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 31(1).
    7. Sangeeta Gupta & Poonam Devdutt & Urmila Jagadeeswari Itam, 2022. "Centrality of psychological well-being of IT employees during COVID-19 and beyond," DECISION: Official Journal of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, Springer;Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, vol. 49(4), pages 365-380, December.
    8. Priyanko Guchait & Ki-Joon Back, 2016. "Three country study: impact of support on employee attitudes," The Service Industries Journal, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 36(7-8), pages 299-318, June.
    9. Leonel Prieto & Muhammad Ruhul Amin & Arman Canatay, 2022. "Examining Social Sustainability in Organizations," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-43, September.
    10. Guttormsen, David S.A., 2018. "Does the ‘non-traditional expatriate’ exist? A critical exploration of new expatriation categories," Scandinavian Journal of Management, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 233-244.
    11. Émilie Lapointe & Christian Vandenberghe & Shea X. Fan, 2022. "Psychological contract breach and organizational cynicism and commitment among self-initiated expatriates vs. host country nationals in the Chinese and Malaysian transnational education sector," Asia Pacific Journal of Management, Springer, vol. 39(1), pages 319-342, March.
    12. Sebastian Stoermer & Samuel Davies & Fabian Jintae Froese, 2021. "The influence of expatriate cultural intelligence on organizational embeddedness and knowledge sharing: The moderating effects of host country context," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 52(3), pages 432-453, April.
    13. Heesup Han & Wei Quan & Amr Al-Ansi & Hyunah Chung & Abdul Hafaz Ngah & Antonio Ariza-Montes & Alejandro Vega-Muñoz, 2020. "A Theoretical Framework Development for Hotel Employee Turnover: Linking Trust in Supports, Emotional Exhaustion, Depersonalization, and Reduced Personal Accomplishment at Workplace," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(19), pages 1-13, September.
    14. Zhang, Yi & Hussain, Taiba, 2021. "SIEs’ interaction and adaptation to their task performance," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 128(C), pages 370-380.
    15. Thomas Rockstuhl & Robert Eisenberger & Lynn M. Shore & James N. Kurtessis & Michael T. Ford & Louis C. Buffardi & Salar Mesdaghinia, 2020. "Perceived organizational support (POS) across 54 nations: A cross-cultural meta-analysis of POS effects," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 51(6), pages 933-962, August.
    16. Shah, Dhara & de Oliveira, Rui Torres & Barker, Michelle & Moeller, Miriam & Nguyen, Tam, 2022. "Expatriate family adjustment: How organisational support on international assignments matters," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 28(2).
    17. Fan, Di & Wu, Sihong & Su, Yiyi & Li, Yi, 2022. "Managing expatriates to achieve mutual benefits: An integrative model and analysis," Journal of International Management, Elsevier, vol. 28(2).
    18. Nikos Bozionelos, 2020. "Career Barriers of Chinese Self-Expatriate Women : Neither Double Jeopardy nor Ethnic Prominence," Post-Print hal-03296969, HAL.
    19. María Bastida & Belén Bande Vilela & Luisa H. Pinto & Sandra Castro-Gonzalez, 2023. "“Be Happy†While You Can: How Expatriates’ Accomplishments Affect Their Subjective Well-Being and Job Satisfaction," SAGE Open, , vol. 13(3), pages 21582440231, July.
    20. Ildikó Rudnák & Ayman Alshaabani & Jingjing Wu, 2022. "The Relationship between Perceived Organizational Support and the Intentions of International Students in Hungary to Stay in Hungary: The Role of Conflict Climate and Intercultural Adjustment," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(21), pages 1-20, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:intman:v:28:y:2022:i:3:s107542532200028x. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/601266/description#description .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.