USAGE OF CORPORATE CAREER DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES BY EXPATRIATE MANAGERS AND THE EXTENT OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL ADJUSTMENT

Abstract

A sample of 343 Western business expatriates assigned to Hong Kong responded to a mail survey regarding usage of corporate career development activities and their extent of international adjustment. Although such activities are targeted at the job and its context, there was no (positive) association as anticipated between career development activities and work adjustment of the expatriates. Instead, there was a significant positive relation between these activities and psychological adjustment, as measured by subjective well‐being. Implications for globalizing corporations of these findings are discussed in detail.

Citation

Selmer, J. (2000), "USAGE OF CORPORATE CAREER DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES BY EXPATRIATE MANAGERS AND THE EXTENT OF THEIR INTERNATIONAL ADJUSTMENT", International Journal of Commerce and Management, Vol. 10 No. 1, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb047394