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Research paper thumbnail of Moderating effects of age and experience on the relationship between emotional intelligence and cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates

Research paper thumbnail of Adjustment of expatriates : tesing specific déterminants of distance, expérience and gender

Research paper thumbnail of 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 Expatriate Management Research

PurposeUsing social influence theory, this study examines the relationship between self-initiated... more PurposeUsing 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.Design/methodology/approachPartial least square structural equation modeling (covariance-based SEM) technique is employed to analyze a sample of 209 SIEs.FindingsThe study finds SIEs' political skill positively and significantly associated with SIEs' work-related adjustment. The relationship with interactional adjustment is only marginally significant. It also finds that SIEs' PC fulfillment mediates the relationship between SIEs' political skill and work-related adjustment. The mediation is marginally significant for the relationship between SIEs' political skill and general living adjustment.Originality/valueThe study adds to the liter...

Research paper thumbnail of Employment relationships and their implications among self-initiated expatriates

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

Research paper thumbnail of Expatriates on the run: The psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on expatriates’ host country withdrawal intentions

International Business Review

Extant research on expatriation in high-stress environments where stress is caused by ongoing and... more Extant research on expatriation in high-stress environments where stress is caused by ongoing and unexpected natural crises remains limited. Drawing on stress theory, in this study, we develop a model to examine the stress-inducing effects of intra-family concerns and workplace discrimination on the intentions to leave the host country among expatriates in the high-stress environment of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We also explore whether gender and the level of work adjustment moderate the propensity of intra-family health concerns and workplace discrimination to induce psychological stress. Based on our analysis of 381 expatriates living and working in the United Arab Emirates, we find the model to be generally supported. We also reveal an intriguing moderating effect of work adjustment on the relationship between intra-family health concerns and psychological stress. Overall, the analysis is among the first ones to shed light on the role of natural crises’ stressors in defining expatriate outcomes.

Research paper thumbnail of “Mirror, Mirror in the Net”: A Sentiment Analysis of the Trailing Spouses’ Online Blogs

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018

In this study, we aim at contributing to the literature on adjustment of trailing spouses to new ... more In this study, we aim at contributing to the literature on adjustment of trailing spouses to new cultural environments. We do so by using an innovative research design where we employ sentiment ana...

Research paper thumbnail of The Spouse as “the Forgotten Other”: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Expatriation Literature

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018

In this paper, we explore how the spouse is discursively constructed and represented in the expat... more In this paper, we explore how the spouse is discursively constructed and represented in the expatriation literature since the publication of “The influence of the spouse on American expatriate adju...

Research paper thumbnail of Know Thyself": Career anchors and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriates

Research paper thumbnail of Staying and Engaging in Work Against the Odds: Investigating Corporate Stockholm Syndrome

Research paper thumbnail of 11. La présence syndicale est-elle liée à la performance économique et financière des entreprises ?

Les relations sociales en entreprise, 2008

Alors que certains dressent un constat sévère sur le paysage syndical français, la négociation co... more Alors que certains dressent un constat sévère sur le paysage syndical français, la négociation collective s'est fortement développée dans les entreprises au cours des dix dernières années. En 2004, 87 % des établissements de plus de vingt salariés déclaraient avoir ...

Research paper thumbnail of Age and motivations to enroll a MOOC in management: A lifespan perspective

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as an innovative practice in tertiary education ... more Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as an innovative practice in tertiary education globally over the last few years. Yet still little is known about the motivations and characteristic...

Research paper thumbnail of Selecting for Retention: The Interactive Role of Coupledom and Mobility Frequency

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020

It is valuable when making hiring decisions to be able to use objective biographical data from jo... more It is valuable when making hiring decisions to be able to use objective biographical data from job applications to predict who will leave quickly – i.e., to select for retention duration. However, ...

Research paper thumbnail of The nonlinear relationship between atypical applicant experience and hiring: The red flags perspective

Journal of Applied Psychology, 2021

Hiring managers regularly encounter job applicants with atypical levels of experience across seve... more Hiring managers regularly encounter job applicants with atypical levels of experience across several common domains-For example, occupational experience, general work experience, educational experience, and life experience. Surprisingly, few large-scale studies have investigated how hiring managers respond to applicants with atypical experience for the job, leaving a substantial lacuna in our knowledge. The primary goal of the present study is to examine the association between relative under- and over-experience in the aforementioned domains and the likelihood of applicants being subsequently interviewed and eventually hired. We draw on insights from attribution theory to introduce the concept of red flags in the judgment of applicant experience. In doing so, we propose that hiring managers may avoid interviewing and hiring applicants with atypical experience relative to the applicant pool (i.e., relative over- or underexperience). Overall, our red flags perspective posits that job applicants with typical amounts of experience will be favored by hiring managers, which may be a useful lens for explaining why highly experienced applicants are not always considered. We test these predictions on a unique dataset parsed from 53,194 résumés and the corresponding application forms from 42 different organizations. Our results are broadly consistent with the red flags perspective, notably uncovering some intricate nonlinear effects. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Research paper thumbnail of Dispositional optimism, entrepreneurial success and exit intentions: The mediating effects of life satisfaction

Journal of Business Research, 2020

This study focuses on how life satisfaction mediates the links from dispositional optimism to ent... more This study focuses on how life satisfaction mediates the links from dispositional optimism to entrepreneurial success and exit intentions. The theoretical basis of this study is a hierarchical approach to personality, and its primary contribution is to the research on psychological entrepreneurship. To analyze potential links among these constructs we develop five hypotheses and then test them on small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. Hypotheses are tested by using consistent bootstrapped PLS-SEM estimations. Our results indicate that dispositional optimism is associated with entrepreneurial success. Our study also reveals that life satisfaction mediates the relationship between dispositional optimism and entrepreneurial success in addition to the relationship between dispositional optimism and exit intentions. Our study demonstrates that entrepreneurial success is related to exit intentions. We conclude by discussing the implications for researchers and practitioners.

Research paper thumbnail of The Three Graces of Leadership: Untangling the Relative Importance and the Mediating Mechanisms of Three Leadership Styles in Russia

Management and Organization Review, 2020

ABSTRACTDrawing on the job-demand resource theory, the article examines the relative importance a... more ABSTRACTDrawing on the job-demand resource theory, the article examines the relative importance and the complementarity of three widely practiced leadership styles – transformational, paternalistic, and authoritarian. It investigates how the three styles relate to followers’ work engagement amongst employees in Russian domestic organizations. It also theorizes and tests the mediating effects of three psychological mechanisms, namely self-efficacy, self-esteem, and job control, on the examined relationships. The findings show that all three leadership styles relate to followers’ work engagement positively. The relationship of transformational leadership is dominant and mediated by all three psychological mechanisms. The remaining two styles also make their unique contributions to followers’ work engagement. Whereas authoritarian leadership influences followers by enhancing their self-efficacy and self-esteem, paternalistic leadership operates more extrinsically by increasing follower...

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the consequences of knowledge hiding: an agency theory perspective

Journal of Managerial Psychology, 2020

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to explore empirically the consequences of knowledge hiding at... more PurposeThe purpose of the study is to explore empirically the consequences of knowledge hiding at the individual level and from the knowledge hiding committers' perspective. Hence, in line with agency theory and prior literature on knowledge hiding, the study investigates the associations between different facets of knowledge hiding and individual-level job performance, as well as the mediating role of employee well-being in the associations.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modeling was used to analyze multisource survey data from a sample of 214 employees and 34 immediate supervisors, in a professional services company in Finland.FindingsEvasive hiding was found to be negatively associated with in-role job performance and positively associated with innovative job performance. Playing dumb was found to be positively associated with in-role job performance. Finally, even though the association between rationalized hiding and innovative job performance was found to b...

Research paper thumbnail of Retail entrepreneurs’ exit intentions: Influence and mediations of personality and job-related factors

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2020

Abstract In this study we investigate retail entrepreneurs' exit intentions by focusing on th... more Abstract In this study we investigate retail entrepreneurs' exit intentions by focusing on their job satisfaction, job-related stress, customer orientation, and dispositional optimism. We develop and test four hypotheses with structural equation modelling on a sample of 365 retail entrepreneurs. Our results indicate that dispositional optimism is a substantial driver of retail entrepreneurs’ customer orientation and job satisfaction. Dispositional optimism also decreases their job-related stress. We also find that both customer orientation and job-related stress mediate the relationship between dispositional optimism and job satisfaction prior to exit intentions. Finally, we found that job satisfaction has a mediating effect on the relationship between job-related stress and exit intentions.

Research paper thumbnail of The Relationship Between Applicant Experience and Hiring: Human Capital vs Red Flag Predictions

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Overqualification among Migrants: A Social Judgment Theory Perspective

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Do You Have What It Takes? Political Skills and Adjustment of Self-initiated Expatriates

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017

In this paper, we examine the influences of self-initiated expatriates’ core self-evaluations on ... more In this paper, we examine the influences of self-initiated expatriates’ core self-evaluations on their cross-cultural adjustment. In addition, we theorize and test the role of self-initiated expatriates’ political skills as a mechanism explaining these influences. We find that among the core self-evaluations only emotional stability is consistently and positively associated with general living, interactional and work adjustment. Other self-evaluations, with the exception of the effect of locus of control on work adjustment, do not exhibit significant associations. At the same time, self-initiated expatriates’ locus of control and self-esteem appear to be conducive to the development of their political skills. Ultimately, expatriates’ political skills mediate, via indirect and complementary effects, the relationships between their locus of control and self-esteem, on the one hand, and general living and work adjustment, on the other hand. Overall, the study is among the first ones to shed light on the role...

Research paper thumbnail of Moderating effects of age and experience on the relationship between emotional intelligence and cross-cultural adjustment of expatriates

Research paper thumbnail of Adjustment of expatriates : tesing specific déterminants of distance, expérience and gender

Research paper thumbnail of 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 Expatriate Management Research

PurposeUsing social influence theory, this study examines the relationship between self-initiated... more PurposeUsing 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.Design/methodology/approachPartial least square structural equation modeling (covariance-based SEM) technique is employed to analyze a sample of 209 SIEs.FindingsThe study finds SIEs' political skill positively and significantly associated with SIEs' work-related adjustment. The relationship with interactional adjustment is only marginally significant. It also finds that SIEs' PC fulfillment mediates the relationship between SIEs' political skill and work-related adjustment. The mediation is marginally significant for the relationship between SIEs' political skill and general living adjustment.Originality/valueThe study adds to the liter...

Research paper thumbnail of Employment relationships and their implications among self-initiated expatriates

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

Research paper thumbnail of Expatriates on the run: The psychological effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on expatriates’ host country withdrawal intentions

International Business Review

Extant research on expatriation in high-stress environments where stress is caused by ongoing and... more Extant research on expatriation in high-stress environments where stress is caused by ongoing and unexpected natural crises remains limited. Drawing on stress theory, in this study, we develop a model to examine the stress-inducing effects of intra-family concerns and workplace discrimination on the intentions to leave the host country among expatriates in the high-stress environment of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. We also explore whether gender and the level of work adjustment moderate the propensity of intra-family health concerns and workplace discrimination to induce psychological stress. Based on our analysis of 381 expatriates living and working in the United Arab Emirates, we find the model to be generally supported. We also reveal an intriguing moderating effect of work adjustment on the relationship between intra-family health concerns and psychological stress. Overall, the analysis is among the first ones to shed light on the role of natural crises’ stressors in defining expatriate outcomes.

Research paper thumbnail of “Mirror, Mirror in the Net”: A Sentiment Analysis of the Trailing Spouses’ Online Blogs

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018

In this study, we aim at contributing to the literature on adjustment of trailing spouses to new ... more In this study, we aim at contributing to the literature on adjustment of trailing spouses to new cultural environments. We do so by using an innovative research design where we employ sentiment ana...

Research paper thumbnail of The Spouse as “the Forgotten Other”: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Expatriation Literature

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2018

In this paper, we explore how the spouse is discursively constructed and represented in the expat... more In this paper, we explore how the spouse is discursively constructed and represented in the expatriation literature since the publication of “The influence of the spouse on American expatriate adju...

Research paper thumbnail of Know Thyself": Career anchors and cross-cultural adjustment among expatriates

Research paper thumbnail of Staying and Engaging in Work Against the Odds: Investigating Corporate Stockholm Syndrome

Research paper thumbnail of 11. La présence syndicale est-elle liée à la performance économique et financière des entreprises ?

Les relations sociales en entreprise, 2008

Alors que certains dressent un constat sévère sur le paysage syndical français, la négociation co... more Alors que certains dressent un constat sévère sur le paysage syndical français, la négociation collective s'est fortement développée dans les entreprises au cours des dix dernières années. En 2004, 87 % des établissements de plus de vingt salariés déclaraient avoir ...

Research paper thumbnail of Age and motivations to enroll a MOOC in management: A lifespan perspective

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2016

Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as an innovative practice in tertiary education ... more Massive Online Open Courses (MOOCs) have emerged as an innovative practice in tertiary education globally over the last few years. Yet still little is known about the motivations and characteristic...

Research paper thumbnail of Selecting for Retention: The Interactive Role of Coupledom and Mobility Frequency

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2020

It is valuable when making hiring decisions to be able to use objective biographical data from jo... more It is valuable when making hiring decisions to be able to use objective biographical data from job applications to predict who will leave quickly – i.e., to select for retention duration. However, ...

Research paper thumbnail of The nonlinear relationship between atypical applicant experience and hiring: The red flags perspective

Journal of Applied Psychology, 2021

Hiring managers regularly encounter job applicants with atypical levels of experience across seve... more Hiring managers regularly encounter job applicants with atypical levels of experience across several common domains-For example, occupational experience, general work experience, educational experience, and life experience. Surprisingly, few large-scale studies have investigated how hiring managers respond to applicants with atypical experience for the job, leaving a substantial lacuna in our knowledge. The primary goal of the present study is to examine the association between relative under- and over-experience in the aforementioned domains and the likelihood of applicants being subsequently interviewed and eventually hired. We draw on insights from attribution theory to introduce the concept of red flags in the judgment of applicant experience. In doing so, we propose that hiring managers may avoid interviewing and hiring applicants with atypical experience relative to the applicant pool (i.e., relative over- or underexperience). Overall, our red flags perspective posits that job applicants with typical amounts of experience will be favored by hiring managers, which may be a useful lens for explaining why highly experienced applicants are not always considered. We test these predictions on a unique dataset parsed from 53,194 résumés and the corresponding application forms from 42 different organizations. Our results are broadly consistent with the red flags perspective, notably uncovering some intricate nonlinear effects. Implications for theory and practice are discussed. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).

Research paper thumbnail of Dispositional optimism, entrepreneurial success and exit intentions: The mediating effects of life satisfaction

Journal of Business Research, 2020

This study focuses on how life satisfaction mediates the links from dispositional optimism to ent... more This study focuses on how life satisfaction mediates the links from dispositional optimism to entrepreneurial success and exit intentions. The theoretical basis of this study is a hierarchical approach to personality, and its primary contribution is to the research on psychological entrepreneurship. To analyze potential links among these constructs we develop five hypotheses and then test them on small and medium-sized entrepreneurs. Hypotheses are tested by using consistent bootstrapped PLS-SEM estimations. Our results indicate that dispositional optimism is associated with entrepreneurial success. Our study also reveals that life satisfaction mediates the relationship between dispositional optimism and entrepreneurial success in addition to the relationship between dispositional optimism and exit intentions. Our study demonstrates that entrepreneurial success is related to exit intentions. We conclude by discussing the implications for researchers and practitioners.

Research paper thumbnail of The Three Graces of Leadership: Untangling the Relative Importance and the Mediating Mechanisms of Three Leadership Styles in Russia

Management and Organization Review, 2020

ABSTRACTDrawing on the job-demand resource theory, the article examines the relative importance a... more ABSTRACTDrawing on the job-demand resource theory, the article examines the relative importance and the complementarity of three widely practiced leadership styles – transformational, paternalistic, and authoritarian. It investigates how the three styles relate to followers’ work engagement amongst employees in Russian domestic organizations. It also theorizes and tests the mediating effects of three psychological mechanisms, namely self-efficacy, self-esteem, and job control, on the examined relationships. The findings show that all three leadership styles relate to followers’ work engagement positively. The relationship of transformational leadership is dominant and mediated by all three psychological mechanisms. The remaining two styles also make their unique contributions to followers’ work engagement. Whereas authoritarian leadership influences followers by enhancing their self-efficacy and self-esteem, paternalistic leadership operates more extrinsically by increasing follower...

Research paper thumbnail of Exploring the consequences of knowledge hiding: an agency theory perspective

Journal of Managerial Psychology, 2020

PurposeThe purpose of the study is to explore empirically the consequences of knowledge hiding at... more PurposeThe purpose of the study is to explore empirically the consequences of knowledge hiding at the individual level and from the knowledge hiding committers' perspective. Hence, in line with agency theory and prior literature on knowledge hiding, the study investigates the associations between different facets of knowledge hiding and individual-level job performance, as well as the mediating role of employee well-being in the associations.Design/methodology/approachStructural equation modeling was used to analyze multisource survey data from a sample of 214 employees and 34 immediate supervisors, in a professional services company in Finland.FindingsEvasive hiding was found to be negatively associated with in-role job performance and positively associated with innovative job performance. Playing dumb was found to be positively associated with in-role job performance. Finally, even though the association between rationalized hiding and innovative job performance was found to b...

Research paper thumbnail of Retail entrepreneurs’ exit intentions: Influence and mediations of personality and job-related factors

Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, 2020

Abstract In this study we investigate retail entrepreneurs' exit intentions by focusing on th... more Abstract In this study we investigate retail entrepreneurs' exit intentions by focusing on their job satisfaction, job-related stress, customer orientation, and dispositional optimism. We develop and test four hypotheses with structural equation modelling on a sample of 365 retail entrepreneurs. Our results indicate that dispositional optimism is a substantial driver of retail entrepreneurs’ customer orientation and job satisfaction. Dispositional optimism also decreases their job-related stress. We also find that both customer orientation and job-related stress mediate the relationship between dispositional optimism and job satisfaction prior to exit intentions. Finally, we found that job satisfaction has a mediating effect on the relationship between job-related stress and exit intentions.

Research paper thumbnail of The Relationship Between Applicant Experience and Hiring: Human Capital vs Red Flag Predictions

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Overqualification among Migrants: A Social Judgment Theory Perspective

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2019

Research paper thumbnail of Do You Have What It Takes? Political Skills and Adjustment of Self-initiated Expatriates

Academy of Management Proceedings, 2017

In this paper, we examine the influences of self-initiated expatriates’ core self-evaluations on ... more In this paper, we examine the influences of self-initiated expatriates’ core self-evaluations on their cross-cultural adjustment. In addition, we theorize and test the role of self-initiated expatriates’ political skills as a mechanism explaining these influences. We find that among the core self-evaluations only emotional stability is consistently and positively associated with general living, interactional and work adjustment. Other self-evaluations, with the exception of the effect of locus of control on work adjustment, do not exhibit significant associations. At the same time, self-initiated expatriates’ locus of control and self-esteem appear to be conducive to the development of their political skills. Ultimately, expatriates’ political skills mediate, via indirect and complementary effects, the relationships between their locus of control and self-esteem, on the one hand, and general living and work adjustment, on the other hand. Overall, the study is among the first ones to shed light on the role...