Relationship between the Personality and Gender and the Adjustment to a Foreign Culture: Comparative Research between Expatriates and Business Trip Travelers

Hana Ornoy, Goni Levi- Nishri and Liad Uziel

International Journal of Business Administration, 2014, vol. 5, issue 3, 122-135

Abstract: The research examines how personality characteristics and gender influence adjustment to a foreign culture among workers participating in one of two international assignment types: expatriation and frequent business trips. The research presents first evidence of relationships between personality and adjustment among business travelers, joins previous findings of relationships between personality characteristics and adjustment to a foreign culture among expatriates, and enables comparison between the two assignment types. The research contributes new findings on differences between the sexes in global employment: contrary to our hypothesis, men adjust better than women to a foreign culture in the two assignment types, in two of four dimensions examined.

Keywords: personality; gender; adjustment; expatriates; business trip travelers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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