Expatriates' adjustment and performance in risky environments: the role of organizational support and rewards, risk propensity and resilience
ISSN: 0048-3486
Article publication date: 25 April 2022
Issue publication date: 15 May 2023
Abstract
Purpose
Drawing upon the social exchange and psychological capital literature and applying a multilevel perspective, this paper examines how personal and organizational factors contribute to expatriates' adjustment and performance of international assignments in a terrorism-induced risky environment.
Design/methodology/approach
Data were collected using a non-probability sampling approach (e.g. purposive and subsequent snowball sampling). The authors tested the hypotheses using survey data of 138 expatriates with current international assignments in Pakistan.
Findings
Expatriates' perceived organizational and risk-taking propensity influences their performance through improved adjustment. Moderating effects suggest that an individual's satisfaction with the received organizational rewards strengthens the risk-taking propensity to adjustment relationship; resilience strengthens the adjustment to performance relationship.
Originality/value
This study extends existing expatriation literature by focusing on a specific type of risk factor pertinent to international assignments, i.e. terrorism. Integrating individual and organizational factors that influence adjustment and subsequent performance provides a clear picture rather if such factors are operationalized separately in the terrorism-induced risky environment context.
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Citation
Sarfraz, M., Nisar, Q.A. and Raza, A. (2023), "Expatriates' adjustment and performance in risky environments: the role of organizational support and rewards, risk propensity and resilience", Personnel Review, Vol. 52 No. 4, pp. 1126-1145. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-05-2021-0309
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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