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Showing 1 to 20 of 106 for “"Expatriates"”.
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Exploration of nonevent among Israeli expatriates
… the experience of nonevent among Israeli expatriates. A nonevent is the failure of an expected pivotal life event, or change, to occur. An account of the lived experience of nonevent and its personal meaning has been lacking in the literature to date. This study has attempted to fill some …
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Overseas effectiveness of American expatriates in Germany
… research is to identify how managers can select expatriates based on their personal characteristics and can intervene in the adjustment process to reduce the effects of adjustment difficulties on overseas effectiveness. The personal characteristics studied in this research effort are age, marital …
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The Expatriates: American Writers Who Never Left Home
… after World War I reveals that the so-called Expatriates were actually never Expatriates, did not consider themselves Expatriates. To them America remained home. The focus of this paper is the Expatriate Movement. First, I will examine why the American Expatriates left their homeland and went …
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Life Course Narratives from U.s. Expatriates: Continuity Work
… through narrative accounts of twenty, former expatriates. All participants had lived and worked in another country for a minimum of at least one year before returning to the US. In-depth, face-to-face interviews were conducted between April 2011 and June 2012. Interviews were unstructured and …
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Expatriate selection : are high self-monitors better expatriates?
… markets abroad, many firms have decided to use expatriates. It has been well documented in the literature that expatriate assignments are subject to very high failure rates. In the literature on expatriate adjustment several personal dimensions have been studied to see if they influence an …
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Laowai: Contested Identity and Imagined Community among Shanghai's Expatriates
… narrative, I document the construction, by expatriates, of small, tightly bounded networks of support as well as the broader imagined community of "Westernness" from which these fictive kinship groups were typically drawn. Analysing transmigrancy through a ritual lens, I argue that this …
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Transnational lives and their boundaries : expatriates in Jakarta, Indonesia
… thesis investigates the lives of Euro-Americans expatriates, who are posted by multinational companies for a period between 1 to 5 years to the city of Jakarta, Indonesia. The main argument of this thesis is that expatriates' transnational lives are marked by boundaries. The prevalence of …
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Socio-Cultural Adjustment of International Students as Expatriates in America
This study examined the relationships between international students’ ethnic identity, self-efficacy, uncertainty avoidance, and their socio-cultural adjustment. A total of 65 international students (aged 18 to 33 years) from seven countries completed the online questionnaire. As hypothesized, path …
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Understanding the Adjustment of Chinese Business Expatriates: A Grounded Theory Study
The number of Chinese expatriates has vastly expanded with an increase of 240% to more than 1.4 million during the last decade (MOFCOM, 2021; 2010). However, little attention has been paid to them and their adjustment experiences in academic circle. Currently, the majority of research of expatriate …
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Human resources development and the utilisation of expatriates in Namibia's public sector
… resource development and the utilisation of expatriates in Namibia's Ministries of Health and Social Services and Basic Education, Sports and Culture. The two ministries are among those which were projected to continue to suffer from scarcities of skilled and professional human resources by …
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Work-life balance, identity salience and break taking behaviors in Indian expatriates
… study focuses on the challenges faced by Indian expatriates working in the IT industry in the USA. It specifically examines participants’ work-nonwork role relationship quality, identity salience, and break taking behaviors. The sample for this study consisted of 415 Indian expatriates working in …
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EXPATRIATES OF "GOOD" MOTHERHOOD: BEARING WITNESS, GUILT, AND BURDENS OF TRANSGRESSIVE MOTHERHOOD
<p>To be an expatriate requires emotional stamina to withstand culture shock, loneliness, and self-doubt. To be an expatriate of “good” motherhood is no less shocking, no less lonely, and no less anxiety-inducing. This collection braids original creative pieces with critical inquiry into the roots …
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Determinants of success in international assignments for Quebec expatriates and their spouses
… firms. The second study, conducted with 104 expatriates and 74 spouses currently on assignment abroad assesses the impact of cross-cultural training, social support, and culture novelty on expatriates' and spouses' adjustment, satisfaction and stress. Their intention to stay and willingness …
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Factors Affecting Cross-Cultural Adjustment Of Taiwanese Expatriates Assigned to Subsidiary Companies In Mainland China
… multinational corporations (MNCs). International expatriates are imperative to the survival of global enterprises in the twenty-first century. Expatriates can become an important human resource to international enterprises or multinational operations. To facilitate the adjustment of business …
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Kommunikationsprobleme zwischen deutschen Expatriates und Chinesen in der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit -- Empirische Erfahrungen und Analyse der Einflußfaktoren
… der Kommunikationsprobleme der deutschen Expatriates und Chinesen in der wirtschaftlichen Zusammenarbeit. Die Untersuchung basiert auf einem Datenmaterial, das aus 86 Interviewgesprächen mit Betroffenen besteht. Zentrale Fragestellungen der vorliegenden Arbeit sind: 1. Mit welchen …
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INVESTIGATING THE PERCEPTION OF EXPATRIATES TOWARDS IMMIGRATION SERVICE QUALITY IN SHARJAH, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES THROUGH MIXED METHOD APPROACH
… Arab Emirates is a favoured destination for expatriates due to its own citizens form a minority of the population and are barely represented in the private sector workforce. These highly unusual demographics confer high importance on the national immigration services. Recently, increased …
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Co-creation and user value in the smart city digital sharing economy: perspectives of expatriates in Dubai, UAE
… also addresses gaps in the literature around expatriates, which is currently focused largely on the assimilation of expatriate talent to their new roles within a workplace environment, rather than looking at the impact their new wider environment is having on them. This research was undertaken …
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Investigation of Mentoring Relationships of Korean Expatriates in the United States in Relation to Adjustment and Demographic Similarities
… with a home country background as mentors for expatriates is suggested. The results showed that Korean-American mentors met the psychosocial mentoring needs of the Korean expatriates as much as the Korean mentors did. Future research directions were suggested.
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