The impact of expatriate supporting practices and cultural intelligence on cross-cultural adjustment and performance of expatriates in Singapore
By Pei-Chuan Wu, Soon Ang. 2011
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We test the relationships between corporate expatriate supporting practices, cross-cultural adjustment, and expatriate performance. Specifically, we propose that the facets of cultural intelligence moderate the expatriate supporting practices–expatriate adjustment relationship. Analyzing 169 expatriates residing in Singapore, we found that expatriate supporting practices were positively related to adjustment as well as performance. Further, we demonstrated that metacognitive and cognitive cultural intelligence negatively moderated the links between expatriate supporting practices and adjustment, while motivational cultural intelligence had a positive moderating effect. These findings have implications for organizations providing support for expatriates and the expatriate selection and training processes.
Subfields: Communication, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
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- The impact of international experience on cultural intelligence: an application of contact theory in a structured short-term programme (2014, background): “It is the source of drive in culturally diverse situations (Ang, Van Dyne, and Tan 2011) and it has been shown to have a direct positive impact on general adjustment of the expatriate (Wu and Ang 2011).”
- Cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates: The role of emotional intelligence and gender (2014, unknown): “…(Black, 1990; Lii & Wong, 2008); socio-ability and flexibility (Black & Stephens, 1989); interpersonal and social skills (Hechanova, Beehr, & Christiansen, 2003); language skills (Kim & Slocum, 2008); and, recently, cultural intelligence (Rose, Ramadu, Uli, & Kumar, 2010; Wu & Ang, 2011) on CCA.”
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