The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country
Multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to employ and send their expatriates to other countries known as host countries to manage international businesses. Once expatriates could adapt and adjust themselves to the host countries, perhaps in return would enhance their job performance. Normally, expatr...
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| author | Zakariya, Noor Hafiza Othman, Abdul Kadir Abdullah, Zaini |
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| description | Multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to employ and send their expatriates to other countries known as host countries to manage international businesses. Once expatriates could adapt and adjust themselves to the host countries, perhaps in return would enhance their job performance. Normally, expatriates are accompanied by their spouse and family members in the host countries. They could be a major influencer to expatriate
adjustment during the accomplishment of the international assignments at the host country. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the family-spouse adjustment on
expatriate adjustment in the host country, Malaysia. This study adopted a quantitative method with purposive sampling. Based on the result of 139 expatriates who are working at MNCs in Malaysia, family-spouse adjustment significantly influences expatriate adjustment. Therefore, MNCs should consider this factor in managing expatriates’ adjustment in the host country.
Also, this study would promote new insights for international human resource management field and cross-cultural managements’ scholars and practitioners. |
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| spelling | uum-266312019-12-02T08:15:22Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/26631/ The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country Zakariya, Noor Hafiza Othman, Abdul Kadir Abdullah, Zaini HD28 Management. Industrial Management Multinational corporations (MNCs) tend to employ and send their expatriates to other countries known as host countries to manage international businesses. Once expatriates could adapt and adjust themselves to the host countries, perhaps in return would enhance their job performance. Normally, expatriates are accompanied by their spouse and family members in the host countries. They could be a major influencer to expatriate adjustment during the accomplishment of the international assignments at the host country. Thus, the purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of the family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment in the host country, Malaysia. This study adopted a quantitative method with purposive sampling. Based on the result of 139 expatriates who are working at MNCs in Malaysia, family-spouse adjustment significantly influences expatriate adjustment. Therefore, MNCs should consider this factor in managing expatriates’ adjustment in the host country. Also, this study would promote new insights for international human resource management field and cross-cultural managements’ scholars and practitioners. UiTM Kedah 2019 Article PeerReviewed Zakariya, Noor Hafiza and Othman, Abdul Kadir and Abdullah, Zaini (2019) The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country. Voice of Academia (VOA), 15 (2). pp. 31-35. ISSN 1958-5079 https://voa.uitm.edu.my/v1/voa-issue/2019-volume-15/issue-2 |
| spellingShingle | HD28 Management. Industrial Management Zakariya, Noor Hafiza Othman, Abdul Kadir Abdullah, Zaini The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country |
| title | The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country |
| title_full | The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country |
| title_fullStr | The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country |
| title_full_unstemmed | The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country |
| title_short | The effect of family-spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment: Malaysia as a host country |
| title_sort | effect of family spouse adjustment on expatriate adjustment malaysia as a host country |
| topic | HD28 Management. Industrial Management |
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