You're from where? The influence of distance factors on New Zealand expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment

Jenkins, Emma M.; Mockaitis, Audra I.

doi:10.1080/09585192.2010.528653

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“…In their research, international HR managers lamented that although organizations see training programs (typically from one to two days in duration) as beneficial, few expatriates and their accompanying family members show interest in participating in these programs. Some research has also found that expatriate training has little or no effect (Selmer, 2005) or even negative effects (Jenkins & Mockaitis, 2010) on cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates. Generic or 'one size fits all' approaches to training that neglect unique workplace demands in specific countries are in part to blame (Vance & Paik, 2002).…”

Section: Global Teams As a Cross-cultural Training Toolmentioning

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The benefits of global teams for international organizations: HR implications

Mockaitis

Zander

Cieri

2018

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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In this special issue we aim to advance the theoretical, conceptual and empirical knowledge about the relationship between global teams and human resource management in international organizations. We argue that although the prevalence of global teams in international organizations is rapidly rising, simultaneously affecting the management of firms on global, regional and local levels, the response of firms and scholars alike to such changes has been slower, especially in the area of IHRM. The HR function in organizations could play a vital role in understanding, managing and leveraging the benefits of global teams to ensure that they contribute positively to the performance of firms, organizational units, and people. We demonstrate that there is still a disconnect in this respect and we highlight several areas in which the increasing use of global teams may challenge our conventional understanding of IHRM issues, and at the same time offer solutions for improvement in international organizations. The selected articles in this special issue provide both theoretical and practitioner implications by highlighting the need to explore the relationship between global teams and IHRM more generally and fully, as well as the need for HR practitioners and IHRM scholars to focus more on the 'human' and less on the 'resources' aspect. We trust that readers of this issue will agree that the articles all offer novel insights into key issues that open new avenues for further research in this nascent yet promising area.

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Section: Global Teams As a Cross-cultural Training Toolmentioning

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The benefits of global teams for international organizations: HR implications

Mockaitis

Zander

Cieri

2018

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…More recently, a number of studies have focused on the significance for the adaptation process of the cultural distance between home and host countries (Hemmasi & Downes, 2013;Jenkins & Mockaitis, 2010). Generally speaking, cultural distance refers to differences between home and host cultures (Hemmasi & Downes, 2013).…”

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“…Generally speaking, cultural distance refers to differences between home and host cultures (Hemmasi & Downes, 2013). Beyond objective differences of this kind, it has been argued that the mindset of expatriates influences the adaptation process, as in their mental image of the foreign country and the validity of this image (Jenkins & Mockaitis, 2010).…”

Section: Factors Influencing Expatriate Adjustmentmentioning

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Adjustment to Pakistan among Finnish expatriates

Salminen¹,

Mattila²,

Jokela³

2016

IJRSM

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Expatriation has become an insightful context for studying employees' adjustment to different host organisations and countries, because it contains a vast array of contradictions and tensions. This context has attracted several studies, which have studied different characteristics of the adjustment as well as processual aspects involved in it. The adjustment of self-initiated expatriates working in distant locations which are substantially different from their own -in particular the move from the developed to the developing country with very different cultural characteristics -has, however, gained less interest. To develop the current understanding about western expatriates' adjustment in this setting further, the study adapts an individual-level perspective to expatriation and uses hermeneutical approach to describe and analyse the adjustment of Finnish expatriates to Pakistan. A qualitative study was carried out; seven Finnish expatriates having expatriation experience from Pakistan were contacted and interviewed, and the qualitative content analysis method was used to analyse and interpret the generated research data. The study shows how young Finnish expatriate proactively seek overseas experiences. They are also largely motivated by altruism. Their personal ambitions to do social good for both the local community and to the host country drive for expatriation.In addition, the studied expatriates actively try to overcome the experienced cultural differences. However, the experienced organisational hierarchies, the expatriates' freedom of choice, and the gender roles influence their adjustment, both regarding to the host organisation and the country.

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“…Geographical distance can, for example, be measured either between the capital city of the home country and the capital city of the target country (Jenkins and Mockaitis, 2010) or between the geographic centre of the home country and the geographic centre of the target country (Ojala and Tyrväinen, 2007). Certain factors connected with an increasing geographical distance have a direct impact on the individual, e.g.…”

Section: Geographical Distancementioning

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“…Certain factors connected with an increasing geographical distance have a direct impact on the individual, e.g. something as simple as the duration of travel (and any associated time zone shift to the host country) can have a significant effect on the abilities to function on a day-to-day basis (Shenkar, 2001;Jenkins and Mockaitis, 2010). Hutzschenreuter et al (2011) state that "the need to bridge the distance between the loci of extant operations and new local contexts" (p. 307) is the key characteristic of international expansion.…”

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Standardisation vs. adaption: a conjoint experiment on the influence of psychic, cultural and geographical distance on international marketing mix decisions

Kraus

Meier

Eggers

et al. 2016

EJIM

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This paper delivers new insights into how psychic, cultural and geographical distance influence international marketing mix decisions on the basis of a choice-based conjoint analysis with 96 managers from Switzerland and Liechtenstein. In this experiment, the managers had to decide whether the four Ps of the marketing mix have to be adapted or standardised for international markets (neighbouring country/European country/non-European country). Overall we found that psychic, cultural and geographical distance 128 S. Kraus et al.have a significant moderating effect on the degree of marketing mix adaptation: the larger the distance towards a market, the more inclined the managers are to make a decision that involves a larger degree of adaptation of the four Ps towards the simulated markets. The marketing mix elements product and promotion tend mostly to be adapted when cultural distance increases, while the elements price and distribution are more adapted when psychic distance is high.

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You're from where? The influence of distance factors on New Zealand expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment

Cited by 40 publications

References 49 publications

The benefits of global teams for international organizations: HR implications

The benefits of global teams for international organizations: HR implications

Adjustment to Pakistan among Finnish expatriates

Standardisation vs. adaption: a conjoint experiment on the influence of psychic, cultural and geographical distance on international marketing mix decisions

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