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Employee Engagement in Multinational Diverse Organization in Difficult Terrain: A Study of Non-Family Station Organization

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  • Clarisse Blazi
  • Olawumi D Awolusi

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Engagements and commitments of many expatriates are often determined by several socio-economic, demographic, cultural, environmental and organizational factors. These issues faced by employees in duty stations like United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) often have telling effects on their work. Consequently, the broad objective of this study was to assess the influence of the working environment on foreign job commitment in UNAMID. The study applied "a mixed-method research approach", utilizing both "qualitative and quantitative research" strategies, with a sample size of 100 respondents from the United Nations Peace Keeping Mission in Darfur, Northern Sudan. Specifically, questionnaires and in-depth Interview were the main instruments. Findings from the quantitative studies showed no significant relationship between employee disengagement, work terrain, job stress, communication, socio-cultural factors and expatriate’s job commitment in UNAMID. While for the qualitative analysis, it was reported that there are both negative and positive effects of working in another country. The study, therefore, concludes that employee disengagement, job stress, working terrain, communication and socio-cultural factors are not associated, with expatriate's job commitment in UNAMID. It is therefore recommended that organizations should develop organizational peculiar plans and programs that would help cushion the physical and psychological effect of new working terrain on expatriates for them to be able to be effective, productive and be able to eventually achieve the ultimate goal of their deployment to the new work station.

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  • Clarisse Blazi & Olawumi D Awolusi, 2020. "Employee Engagement in Multinational Diverse Organization in Difficult Terrain: A Study of Non-Family Station Organization," Information Management and Business Review, AMH International, vol. 12(1), pages 45-62.
    • Handle: RePEc:rnd:arimbr:v:12:y:2020:i:1:p:45-62
    DOI: 10.22610/imbr.v12i1(I).3025
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