- Title
- Political skill and cross-cultural adjustment among self-initiated expatriates: the role of host employer's psychological contract fulfillment
- Creator
- Koveshnikov, Alexei; Wechtler, Heidi; Moeller, Miriam; Dejoux, Cecile
- Relation
- Journal of Global Mobility Vol. 10, Issue 3, p. 312-331
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/JGM-12-2021-0100
- Publisher
- Emerald Publishing Limited
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2022
- Description
- Purpose: 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. Design/methodology/approach: Partial least square structural equation modeling (covariance-based SEM) technique is employed to analyze a sample of 209 SIEs. Findings: The 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/value: 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 fulfillment 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.
- Subject
- self-initiated expatriates; political skill; psychological contract; cross-cultural adjustment
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1486462
- Identifier
- uon:51855
- Identifier
- ISSN:2049-8799
- Language
- eng
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