International work in domestic jobs: an individual explanation

The intercultural communication motivation scale: An instrument to assess motivational training needs of candidates for international assignments

“…Caligiuri, Jacobs, and Farr (2000); Graf (2004); Matsumoto et al (2001); Matsumoto, LeRoux, Bernhard, and Gray (2004) ;Paige, Jacobs-Cassuto, Yershova, and DeJaeghere (2003); and others have used international student samples for similar reasons. This study uses a pathfinder approach because actual expatriates are hard to recruit in sufficient numbers for exploratory research (Tharenou, 2005). This is in accordance with Sattler and Völker (2003), who suggest recruiting study participants who are sufficiently similar to the actual target group for early stages of investigative efforts and using the results of such exploratory findings in subsequent confirmatory studies with target subjects.…”

Female expatriates: towards a more inclusive view

“…Though much of the research about female expatriates has examined organizationally-assigned expatriates, within recent years this literature has expanded beyond examinations of just long-term organizational postings to also investigate women who self-initiate (Tharenou, 2009), and women who either self-initiate or accept organizational positions which involve undertaking international travel or components of international work within domestic jobs (Fischlmayr and Puchmüller, 2016;Hutchings et al, 2012;Tharenou, 2006). Further, recently consideration has been given to specific groups of non-traditional female expatriates such as lesbian expatriates (Gedro, 2010;McPhail, McNulty and Hutchings, 2016) and single parent expatriates (McNulty, 2015).…”

International Work Demands and Employee Well-Being and Performance

“…In addition to these demands, if the domestic international work is conducted via technological mediums such as the phone and internet, many logistical stressors are introduced such as time zone differences, and difficulty communicating in writing. Tharenou (2005) was the first to call attention to the idea of international work within domestic jobs in Australia. She described how these types of jobs are increasing in Australia, especially for workers within the headquarters offices of multi-national corporations.…”

“…Past research has established that today's workers are engaged in many different forms of international work ranging from international relocations, to frequent business travel, to collaboration across distances through internet and phone based resources (e.g. Collings, Scullion, & Morley, 2007;GMAC 2008;Tharenou, 2005;Welch & Worm, 2006;Lazarova & Cerdin, 2008). Study 1 lent some support to this idea, although many respondents were not detailed about the types of international work responsibilities they are currently experiencing.…”

“…Past research has established that workers in today's global marketplace are engaged in many different kinds of international work, including traditional expatriate assignments, international weekly or biweekly commutes (commuter or rotational assignments), short term assignments (1 to 12 months), virtual international assignments, and frequent business travel (Collings, Scullion, & Morley, 2007;GMAC 2008;Tharenou, 2005;Welch & Worm, 2006;Lazarova & Cerdin, 2008). In addition, workers who are located domestically also have international work responsibilities in the form of managing local multi-national work teams or simply coordinating by phone with workers in other countries who serve support functions, such as on-boarding or IT support (Harrison, Shaffer, & Bhaskar-Shrinivas, 2004).…”