Academic expatriation: Experiences from within the United Arab Emirates

Sanderson, Kay

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“…Alsulami and Sherwood (2020) pointed out the problem of discriminatory behaviour and negative stereotypes experienced by academics from their colleagues, leaders and students. Other psychological outcomes, such as culture shock, depression, anger and excessive self-motivation were mentioned by Sanderson (2014). Gupta et al .…”

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“…Similarly, Gress and Shin (2020b) noticed that such organisational culture was a source of confusion and distrust for most expatriate academics. Sanderson (2014) analysed the fulfilment of two missions (teaching and learning) by foreign academics, saying that many complained about the focus on teaching rather than research. Sing et al (2021) focused on mutual relations between expatriates and students, showing instead a disconnection and misapprehension in several issues regarding culture, motivation, concepts of teaching and student needs.…”

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“…Alsulami and Sherwood (2020) pointed out the problem of Expatriate academics discriminatory behaviour and negative stereotypes experienced by academics from their colleagues, leaders and students. Other psychological outcomes, such as culture shock, depression, anger and excessive self-motivation were mentioned by Sanderson (2014). Gupta et al (2017) pointed out the role of emotional intelligence in coping with burnout, low productivity, increased turnover intentions, low job satisfaction and low morale amongst expatriate academics.…”

Section: Theme 5 Academic Careermentioning

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Expatriate academics: what have we known for four decades? A systematic literature review

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2023

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PurposeThe main objective of this paper is twofold: to analyse the progress of a research stream concerning expatriate academics in the last four decades and to make recommendations for further studies in this field.Design/methodology/approachIn this study, the systematic literature review (SLR) concerning expatriate academics was applied. The search embraced the period from 1980–2022. The review was performed in two interdisciplinary electronic databases: Web of Science and Scopus. The selection process of papers was conducted in steps, as recommended by the PRISMA protocol. The total pool of articles received after the exclusion criteria was 110. The content of each paper was thus extracted and categorised in Excel file: author, year of publication, tittle of article, journal, theory applied, research method, sample size, country/field of investigation.FindingsFor almost three decades this topic was almost absent in the literature of the subject. The most active publication period started from 2009 and since then there have been two “waves” of published articles devoted to expatriate academics: 2009–2014 and 2017–2021. The significant number of studies appeared in Journal of Global Mobility followed by Personnel Review, IJHRM, Higher Education. The thematic analysis revealed six themes which have been already researched on expatriates academics: (1) motives, (2) adjustment, (3) job factors and work outcomes, (4) academic missions, (5) academic career, (6) women and men in academia.Practical implicationsPractitioners and university management might find this article useful as the article allows to manage this pool of international academics more efficiently with mutual benefits for expatriates and organisations. This study may assist the university authorities to develop systemic approach to attract foreign academics; adjust the same in work and culture domain through effective training; support in organisational, financial and career field; create the performance criteria of expatriate work related to three missions: research, teaching and service; introduce metrics and indicators to evaluate the contribution and work outcomes of foreign scientists into the host university.Originality/valueThis review shows that there are many new perspectives and models through which the academic expatriation can be analysed. This paper gives an insight into the academic literature on academics expatriates. The paper is innovative and has contributed to research by doing an SLR in a new area (academic expats) and tackling all the areas that has been covered by academic research so far. New research directions have been recommended for future research, to open the field further.

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A model for Shaping the Focus and Content of Cross-Cultural Orientation and Training (CCOT) Programs in HEIs in the United Arab Emirates

Quansah¹

2018

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The purpose of this paper is to develop a model for shaping the focus and content of Cross-Cultural Orientation and Training (CCOT) programs for expatriate academics in higher education institutions (HEIs) in the UAE. The research design used for the study was the mixed method approach using a sequential technique. A total of 324 expatriate academics employed in three HEIs in the UAE responded to the questionnaire, and 57 of them participated in face-to-face interviews. Pearson product moment correlation, multiple regression, ANOVA, Survey Monkey's categorize feature (text analysis), and content analysis approach (general inductive approach)were employed in analyzing the data. The results of this study confirmed that CCOT programs made a significant unique contribution to expatriate academics' cross cultural adjustment and their intention stay. The findings also revealed that five distinct content areas were identified by incumbent expatriate academics as being the most important content areas to be included in any CCOT program. The scope of each content area is explained and discussed in this paper. In many instances, these five content areas overlap in regards to the issues that they address, and are in some cases interrelated. Although the purpose of this study is not to generalize, the researcher suggests future research involving host country nationals, students, faculty recruitment specialists, and CCOT specialists or consultants. By expanding the sample size and including various parties or stakeholders including different methodologies for data collection, this topic can be explored further, and the range of issues discussed in this paper can be expanded.

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Academic expatriation: Experiences from within the United Arab Emirates

Cited by 2 publications

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Expatriate academics: what have we known for four decades? A systematic literature review

Expatriate academics: what have we known for four decades? A systematic literature review

A model for Shaping the Focus and Content of Cross-Cultural Orientation and Training (CCOT) Programs in HEIs in the United Arab Emirates

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