Political skill and cross-cultural adjustment among self-initiated expatriates: the role of host employer's psychological contract fulfillment
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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Date
2022-07-22
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en
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20
312-331
312-331
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Journal of Global Mobility, Volume 10, issue 3
Abstract
Purpose: Using social influence theory, this study examines the relationship between self-initiated expatriates' (SIE) political skill, as a measure of their social effectiveness, and cross-cultural adjustment (CCA). It also tests whether the host employer's psychological contract (PC) fulfillment mediates this relationship. Design/methodology/approach: Partial least square structural equation modeling (covariance-based SEM) technique is employed to analyze a sample of 209 SIEs. Findings: The study finds SIEs' political skill positively and significantly associated with SIEs' work-related adjustment. The relationship with interactional adjustment is only marginally significant. It also finds that SIEs' PC fulfillment mediates the relationship between SIEs' political skill and work-related adjustment. The mediation is marginally significant for the relationship between SIEs' political skill and general living adjustment. Originality/value: The study adds to the literature on expatriates' skills and CCA by theorizing and testing the hitherto unexplored role of SIEs' political skill in their work and non-work CCA. It also theorizes and examines the host employer's PC fulfillment as a mediating mechanism, through which SIEs' political skill facilitates their CCA. Finally, it advances the literature on political skill by testing the construct's application in the cross-cultural and non-work domain.Description
Publisher Copyright: © 2022, Alexei Koveshnikov, Heidi Wechtler, Miriam Moeller and Cecile Dejoux.
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Cross-cultural adjustment, Political skill, Psychological contract, Self-initiated expatriates
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Koveshnikov, A, Wechtler, H, Moeller, M & Dejoux, C 2022, ' Political skill and cross-cultural adjustment among self-initiated expatriates : the role of host employer's psychological contract fulfillment ', Journal of Global Mobility, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 312-331 . https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-12-2021-0100
