Motivational phases associated with the foreign placement of managerial candidates: an application of the Rubicon model of action phases

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The Rubicon model developed by H. Heckhausen and P.M. Gollwitzer has been used as a theoretical basis for investigating why people decide to work abroad, why people remain committed to this decision and why some people subsequently reverse this decision. It appears that work-related values have a substantial influence on whether or not employees aim to work abroad. Overall, work-related values do not have a significant impact on the abandonment or retention of the goal of working abroad.

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Strangers in a strange land: expatriate paranoia and the dynamics of exclusion

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Workers who are relocated overseas are expected to have difficulty integrating and suffer problems of a psychological nature, but with careful selection and training it is possible to overcome these negative aspects. It is reasonable for expatriates to react in a negative way to what they perceive as the natives of a country acting against them. Expatriates may feel uncomfortable outside their own culture and feel their identity threatened.

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Mentoring dual-career expatriates: a sense-making and sense-giving social support process

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A global mentoring programme can play a valuable role in allowing dual-career expatriates to adapt more rapidly to the host country and organization. Speeding up adjustment through global mentoring assists dual-career expatriate couples in developing self-efficacy, which may boost relational skills with regard to host-country nationals. It seems that mentoring is currently an under-used programme to boost expatriate adjustment.

Services, Alien labor, Foreign labor

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