Career Anchors and Cross-Cultural Adjustment Among Expatriates in a Non-Profit Organization

Business, pleasure or both?: motivations and changing motivation of self-initiated expatriates

“…Moreover, Linder (2018) found SIEs tend to be less embedded in organisations than AEs, and as career satisfaction is a result of deep embeddedness, AEs were more likely to perform tasks exceeding contractual requirements. Increased evidence of boundaryless career orientations among expatriates underlines the growing importance of internal career characteristics for their career decisions (Wechtler, Koveshnikov, & Dejoux, 2017) but there has been limited examination of SIEs' career decisions. Given that Gratton (cited in McKeown & Leighton, 2016) suggested an ageing world population will have multiple stages of life and a much wider array of ways of working into older ages, self-initiated expatriation is likely to form part of working in different life stages.…”

Entrepreneurial passion for founding as a mediator of the career anchors to entrepreneurial behavior relationship

“…The mediation effect of EPF is understandable and expected because passion considered to be a powerful propensity toward behavior that people like; and they find it valuable and invest time and energy within it (Gielnik et al, 2017;Vallerand et al, 2003). On the other hand career anchors influence employees' career choice and behavior; as well as lead people to choose a specific career path (Wechtler et al, 2017). Moreover, Lee and Wong (2004) found that entrepreneurial intentions are significantly driven by career anchors as they found that there is a positive relationship between the managerial anchor and entrepreneurial intention as well as individuals with technical anchor gain a strong entrepreneurial intention to begin their new business in their area of expertise.…”

“…Another sector of career anchor researches centered on institutional expatriates' career anchors, These researches have suggested a ninth type of anchor called internationalism which identifies people interested in global movement (Wechtler et al, 2017). Finally, career anchors have been studied in the field of cross-cultural adjustment (CCA); and it has been found that distinct career anchors are positively associated with distinct aspects of CCA (Wechtler et al, 2017).…”

“…Career anchors are key elements in identifying employee career paths as employees continue to adhere to their internal job guidelines SAIF and rules in the organizational system. (Wechtler et al, 2017). Career anchors, therefore, identify a career path for an individual and entrepreneurial passion then helps this individual to persist in this direction.…”

“…Investigating the role of career anchors in predicting EB and the mediation effect of EPF in this pathway is very important because career anchors influence career choices for individuals; they are critical factors that lead individuals to choose a particular career as individuals prefer to stick to their underlying inner profession orientations within the organizational context (Wechtler, Koveshnikov, & Dejoux, 2017). This means that individual behavior is influenced by a certain individual's type of career anchors.…”