Lingua necessaria? Language proficiency and expatriate success
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Managing expatriates: Success factors in private and public domains. ed. / Brenton M. Wiernik; Heiko Rüger; Deniz S. Ones. Opladen: Verlag Babara Budrich, 2018. p. 195-208 (Beiträge zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft; Vol. 50).
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T1 - Lingua necessaria?
T2 - Language proficiency and expatriate success
AU - Wiernik, Brenton M.
AU - Albrecht, Anne-Grit
AU - Dilchert, Stephan
AU - Deller, Jürgen
AU - Ones, Deniz S.
AU - Paulus, Frieder M.
N1 - c 2018, ersch. 12.2017
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Local language proficiency is often regarded as a key enabling factor for expatriate success. In this study, we use data from the iGOES project to examine how language proficiency contributes to expatriate outcomes. Language proficiency is negligibly to weakly related to most outcomes, but does show positive relations with interaction adjustment. Moderator analyses support the interpretation of this relation as reflecting increased comfort from being able to communicate effectively, rather than reflecting cultural engagement or social inclusion effects. Overall, results indicate that local language proficiency can contribute to expatriate comfort, but is not absolutely necessary for expatriate success.
AB - Local language proficiency is often regarded as a key enabling factor for expatriate success. In this study, we use data from the iGOES project to examine how language proficiency contributes to expatriate outcomes. Language proficiency is negligibly to weakly related to most outcomes, but does show positive relations with interaction adjustment. Moderator analyses support the interpretation of this relation as reflecting increased comfort from being able to communicate effectively, rather than reflecting cultural engagement or social inclusion effects. Overall, results indicate that local language proficiency can contribute to expatriate comfort, but is not absolutely necessary for expatriate success.
KW - Management studies
KW - Auslandsentsendung
KW - Expatriate-Forschung
KW - expatriation
KW - Business psychology
KW - Auslandsentsendung
KW - Expatriate-Forschung
KW - expatriation
UR - https://shop.budrich-academic.de/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/9783847420316_iv.pdf?v=3a52f3c22ed6
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 978-3-8474-2031-6
T3 - Beiträge zur Bevölkerungswissenschaft
SP - 195
EP - 208
BT - Managing expatriates
A2 - Wiernik, Brenton M.
A2 - Rüger, Heiko
A2 - Ones, Deniz S.
PB - Verlag Babara Budrich
CY - Opladen
ER -