Institutional Discrimination of Women and Workplace Harassment of Female Expatriates: Evidence from 25 Host Countries
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in: Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Research, Jahrgang 6, Nr. 1, 21.03.2018, S. 40-58.
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T1 - Institutional Discrimination of Women and Workplace Harassment of Female Expatriates
T2 - Evidence from 25 Host Countries
AU - Bader, Benjamin
AU - Störmer, Sebastian
AU - Bader, Anna Katharina
AU - Schuster, Tassilo
PY - 2018/3/21
Y1 - 2018/3/21
N2 - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate workplace gender harassment of female expatriates across 25 host countries and consider the role of institutional-level gender discrimination as a boundary condition. Further, the study investigates the effects of workplace gender harassment on frustration and job satisfaction and general job stress as a moderator.Design/methodology/approachThe sample is comprised of 160 expatriates residing in 25 host countries. The authors test the model using partial least-squares structural equation modeling.Findings: The results show that female expatriates experience more workplace gender harassment than male expatriates. This effect is particularly pronounced in host countries with strong institutional-level gender discrimination. Moreover, the authors found significant main effects of gender harassment on expatriates’ frustration and job satisfaction. Further, the authors identified a significant association between frustration and job satisfaction. No significant moderation effect of general job stress was found.Research limitations/implications: The study’s data are cross-sectional. Future studies are encouraged to use longitudinal research designs. Further, future studies could center on perpetrators of harassment, different manifestations of harassment, and effective countermeasures.Practical implications: The study raises awareness on the challenges of harassment of female expatriates and the role of the host country context. Further, the study shows the detrimental effects of gender harassment on female expatriates’ job satisfaction which is a central predictor of variables crucial to international assignments, for example, performance or assignment completion.Originality/value: The study is among the first endeavors to include institutional-level gender discrimination as a boundary condition of workplace gender harassment of female expatriates, and therefore puts the interplay between macro- and micro-level processes into perspective.
AB - Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate workplace gender harassment of female expatriates across 25 host countries and consider the role of institutional-level gender discrimination as a boundary condition. Further, the study investigates the effects of workplace gender harassment on frustration and job satisfaction and general job stress as a moderator.Design/methodology/approachThe sample is comprised of 160 expatriates residing in 25 host countries. The authors test the model using partial least-squares structural equation modeling.Findings: The results show that female expatriates experience more workplace gender harassment than male expatriates. This effect is particularly pronounced in host countries with strong institutional-level gender discrimination. Moreover, the authors found significant main effects of gender harassment on expatriates’ frustration and job satisfaction. Further, the authors identified a significant association between frustration and job satisfaction. No significant moderation effect of general job stress was found.Research limitations/implications: The study’s data are cross-sectional. Future studies are encouraged to use longitudinal research designs. Further, future studies could center on perpetrators of harassment, different manifestations of harassment, and effective countermeasures.Practical implications: The study raises awareness on the challenges of harassment of female expatriates and the role of the host country context. Further, the study shows the detrimental effects of gender harassment on female expatriates’ job satisfaction which is a central predictor of variables crucial to international assignments, for example, performance or assignment completion.Originality/value: The study is among the first endeavors to include institutional-level gender discrimination as a boundary condition of workplace gender harassment of female expatriates, and therefore puts the interplay between macro- and micro-level processes into perspective.
KW - Sociology
KW - Discrimination
KW - Job satisfaction
KW - Harassment
KW - Expatriation
KW - PLS-SEM
KW - Female assignees
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U2 - 10.1108/JGM-06-2017-0022
DO - 10.1108/JGM-06-2017-0022
M3 - Journal articles
VL - 6
SP - 40
EP - 58
JO - Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Research
JF - Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriate Research
SN - 2049-8799
IS - 1
ER -