The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale
The adjustability of expatriate managers has a major influence on the success or failure of their mission. Yet, because of the difficulty of measuring this antecedent, it does not always receive the attention that it deserves. The objective of this research is to propose an improved measurement scal...
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| author | Waxin, Marie-France |
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| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | Waxin, Marie-France |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2005 2019-04-10T05:10:57Z 2019-04-10T05:10:57Z |
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| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | Waxin, M-F., 2005. The adjustability of the expatriate manager: Proposal of an improved measurement scale, 20th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, EIASM, Brussels, April 28-29. http://hdl.handle.net/11073/16415 |
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| dc.publisher.none.fl_str_mv | European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management |
| dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv | Expatriate Adjustability Dimensions Scales Measures Willingness to communicate Substitution ability Social orientation Openness ability Technical abilities Active stress resistance |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale Improved scale for adjustability |
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| description | The adjustability of expatriate managers has a major influence on the success or failure of their mission. Yet, because of the difficulty of measuring this antecedent, it does not always receive the attention that it deserves. The objective of this research is to propose an improved measurement scale of the six dimensions of expatriates' adjustability. We have simplified the measures of the first five dimensions of adjustability and have operationalized active stress resistance by creating an index based on Folkman et al. (1986)'s work. Our sample consisted of 224 managers, of which 54 were French, 53 German, 60 Korean and 57 Scandinavian. The respondents were expatriated in the area of New Delhi, India. In order to test the structure of our scale, we conducted principal components factor analyses on the complete sample and on the four cultural samples. Our research allowed us to propose an improved measurement scale of adjustability, a scale that comprises fewer items and that can be used more easily in researches on cross-cultural adjustment. We showed that the structure of the six dimensions of adjustability remained stable for the different countries of our research. |
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| spelling | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scaleImproved scale for adjustabilityWaxin, Marie-FranceExpatriateAdjustabilityDimensionsScalesMeasuresWillingness to communicateSubstitution abilitySocial orientationOpenness abilityTechnical abilitiesActive stress resistanceThe adjustability of expatriate managers has a major influence on the success or failure of their mission. Yet, because of the difficulty of measuring this antecedent, it does not always receive the attention that it deserves. The objective of this research is to propose an improved measurement scale of the six dimensions of expatriates' adjustability. We have simplified the measures of the first five dimensions of adjustability and have operationalized active stress resistance by creating an index based on Folkman et al. (1986)'s work. Our sample consisted of 224 managers, of which 54 were French, 53 German, 60 Korean and 57 Scandinavian. The respondents were expatriated in the area of New Delhi, India. In order to test the structure of our scale, we conducted principal components factor analyses on the complete sample and on the four cultural samples. Our research allowed us to propose an improved measurement scale of adjustability, a scale that comprises fewer items and that can be used more easily in researches on cross-cultural adjustment. We showed that the structure of the six dimensions of adjustability remained stable for the different countries of our research.European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management2019-04-10T05:10:57Z2019-04-10T05:10:57Z2005Published versioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfWaxin, M-F., 2005. The adjustability of the expatriate manager: Proposal of an improved measurement scale, 20th Workshop on Strategic Human Resource Management, EIASM, Brussels, April 28-29.http://hdl.handle.net/11073/16415en_USoai:repository.aus.edu:11073/164152024-08-22T12:18:32Z |
| spellingShingle | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale Waxin, Marie-France Expatriate Adjustability Dimensions Scales Measures Willingness to communicate Substitution ability Social orientation Openness ability Technical abilities Active stress resistance |
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| title | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale |
| title_full | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale |
| title_fullStr | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale |
| title_full_unstemmed | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale |
| title_short | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale |
| title_sort | The adjustability of the expatriate manager: proposal of an improved measurement scale |
| topic | Expatriate Adjustability Dimensions Scales Measures Willingness to communicate Substitution ability Social orientation Openness ability Technical abilities Active stress resistance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11073/16415 |