The Role of Host Employer’s Psychological Contract Fulfilment, with Alexei Koveshnikov, Miriam Moeller, and Cecile Dejoux.
Highlights
Using social influence theory, this study examines the relationship between self-initiated expatriates’ (SIE) political skill, as a measure of their social effectiveness, and cross-cultural adjustment (CCA). It also tests whether the host employer’s psychological contract (PC) fulfillment mediates this relationship. Partial least square structural equation modelling (covariance-based SEM) technique is employed to analyze a sample of 209 SIEs. The study finds a significant and positive relationship between political skill and general living, interactional, and work-related adjustment. It also finds that SIEs’ political skill is related positively and significantly to SIEs’ PC fulfilment, which, in turn, is related positively and significantly to SIEs’ general living and work-related but not interactional adjustment. The study adds to the literature on expatriates’ skills and CCA by theorizing and testing the hitherto unexplored role of SIEs’ political skill in their work and non-work CCA. It also theorizes and examines the host employer’s PC fulfilment as a mediating mechanism, through which SIEs’ political skill facilitates their CCA. Finally, it advances the literature on political skill by testing the construct’s application in the cross-cultural and non-work domain.
Presentation (AIB LAC 2020)
Cite
Koveshnikov, A., Wechtler, H., Moeller, M., & Dejoux, C. (2022). Political Skill and Cross-Cultural Adjustment Among Self-Initiated Expatriates: The Role of Host Employer’s Psychological Contract Fulfillment. Journal of Global Mobility: The Home of Expatriation Research.
Impact
Politically skilled – no benefits spilled: What do self-initiated expatriates need political skill for?
Published in The JGM BitBlog #43, with Koveshnikov, A., Wechtler, H., Moeller, M., & Dejoux, C. (2022).