The Effects of Expatriate’s Personality and Cross-cultural Competence on Social Capital, Cross-cultural Adjustment, and Performance: The Context of Foreign-Owned Multinational Firms

Alfiyatul Qomariyah, Phuoc-Thien Nguyen, Wann-Yih Wu and Vinh-Long Tran-Chi

SAGE Open, 2022, vol. 12, issue 3, 21582440221126689

Abstract: Expatriation is still a challenging task, although the determinants of expatriate adjustment and performance have been evaluated extensively. This study aimed to empirically investigate the influence of the expatriates’ personality and cross-cultural competence on social capital, cross-cultural adjustment, and performance with expatriates from foreign-owned multination firms in Taiwan. This study integrated three perspectives to explain expatriate success and failure. The first perspective involves expatriate-related factors, including the Big Five personality traits, and the emotional intelligence (otherwise known as emotional quotient or EQ) of expatriates. The second perspective is cross-cultural competence factors, including cultural intelligence, cultural adaptability, and cultural empathy. The third perspective is the social capital of expatriates, which includes leader-member exchange (LMX), perceived organizational support (POS). Furthermore, this study incorporated these perspectives into antecedents and identified their individual and combined effects on expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment and performance. The findings of this study may be helpful for human resource managers in managing their expatriates. The findings may also help academicians in exploring expatriate management.

Keywords: expatriate personality; cross-cultural competence; social capital; expatriate performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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