The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context

The time required by expatriates to become proficient in their new positions is important to both employers and employees. The existing literature on expatriate success is largely blind to what may be significant factors in the process of creating and sustaining job performance amongst the expatriat...

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المؤلف الرئيسي: Waxin, Marie-France (author)
مؤلفون آخرون: Brewster, Chris (author), Ashill, Nicholas (author)
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منشور في: 2016
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dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv Waxin, M-F., Brewster, C., Ashill, N., Chandon, J-L., 2016. The impact of expatriates’ home country culture on their time to proficiency: empirical evidence from the Indian context. Journal of Developing Areas, Volume 50, No. 4: 401-422.
1548-2278
http://hdl.handle.net/11073/16372
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dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv Tennessee State University College of Business
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Expatriation
Time to proficiency
Adjustment
Performance
Culture of origin
Home country culture
Organizational antecedents
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description The time required by expatriates to become proficient in their new positions is important to both employers and employees. The existing literature on expatriate success is largely blind to what may be significant factors in the process of creating and sustaining job performance amongst the expatriate group: the effect of time and the effect of home country culture. In this study, we examined the impact of five organizational antecedents (role clarity, role discretion, supervisory support, coworkers support and perceived organizational culture dissimilarity) on corporate expatriates' Time to Proficiency (TTP) in four home country cultures (HCC) samples. We specifically examine the direct impact of HCC on expatriates’ TTP and the moderating effects of HCC on TTP’s organizational antecedents. We used a self-administrated questionnaire on a sample of 224 expatriated managers in New Delhi, India, from four different home countries: France, Germany, Korea, and Scandinavia. To analyze the data, we used PLS Graph version 3.00, a component based Structural Equation Modeling technique. We tested the impact of HCC on TTP by examining the mean scores in TTP across HCC. Differences between path coefficients across the four HCC were analysed using path coefficients’ comparison. Our results show that 1) on the full sample, all five organizational antecedents have a significant impact on expatriates’ TTP, 2) TTP mean scores significantly vary across HCC and 3) the organizational antecedents of expatriate TTP and their relative importance vary across HCC. Our results are broadly consistent with the cultural studies: except for the Korean expatriates, the larger the cultural distance, the longer the TTP. Knowledge that HCC is a significant predictor of TTP suggests that organizations may need to reconsider their international staffing policies, especially in the fields of recruitment, staffing policies and support policies.
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spelling The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian contextWaxin, Marie-FranceBrewster, ChrisAshill, NicholasExpatriationTime to proficiencyAdjustmentPerformanceCulture of originHome country cultureOrganizational antecedentsThe time required by expatriates to become proficient in their new positions is important to both employers and employees. The existing literature on expatriate success is largely blind to what may be significant factors in the process of creating and sustaining job performance amongst the expatriate group: the effect of time and the effect of home country culture. In this study, we examined the impact of five organizational antecedents (role clarity, role discretion, supervisory support, coworkers support and perceived organizational culture dissimilarity) on corporate expatriates' Time to Proficiency (TTP) in four home country cultures (HCC) samples. We specifically examine the direct impact of HCC on expatriates’ TTP and the moderating effects of HCC on TTP’s organizational antecedents. We used a self-administrated questionnaire on a sample of 224 expatriated managers in New Delhi, India, from four different home countries: France, Germany, Korea, and Scandinavia. To analyze the data, we used PLS Graph version 3.00, a component based Structural Equation Modeling technique. We tested the impact of HCC on TTP by examining the mean scores in TTP across HCC. Differences between path coefficients across the four HCC were analysed using path coefficients’ comparison. Our results show that 1) on the full sample, all five organizational antecedents have a significant impact on expatriates’ TTP, 2) TTP mean scores significantly vary across HCC and 3) the organizational antecedents of expatriate TTP and their relative importance vary across HCC. Our results are broadly consistent with the cultural studies: except for the Korean expatriates, the larger the cultural distance, the longer the TTP. Knowledge that HCC is a significant predictor of TTP suggests that organizations may need to reconsider their international staffing policies, especially in the fields of recruitment, staffing policies and support policies.Tennessee State University College of Business2018-12-20T10:42:13Z2018-12-20T10:42:13Z2016PostprintPeer-Reviewedinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfWaxin, M-F., Brewster, C., Ashill, N., Chandon, J-L., 2016. The impact of expatriates’ home country culture on their time to proficiency: empirical evidence from the Indian context. Journal of Developing Areas, Volume 50, No. 4: 401-422.1548-2278http://hdl.handle.net/11073/1637210.1353/jda.2016.0171en_UShttps://doi.org/10.1353/jda.2016.0171oai:repository.aus.edu:11073/163722024-08-22T12:16:17Z
spellingShingle The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
Waxin, Marie-France
Expatriation
Time to proficiency
Adjustment
Performance
Culture of origin
Home country culture
Organizational antecedents
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title The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
title_full The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
title_fullStr The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
title_full_unstemmed The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
title_short The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
title_sort The impact of expatriate's home country culture on their time to proficiency : empirical evidence from the Indian context
topic Expatriation
Time to proficiency
Adjustment
Performance
Culture of origin
Home country culture
Organizational antecedents
url http://hdl.handle.net/11073/16372