What makes organization-assigned expatriates perform in the host country?

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Friday, February 18, 2022 - 09:30

What makes organization-assigned expatriates perform in the host country? The study of Dr. Sanjay Singh and colleagues recently published in the Journal of Business Research investigates “how does the host country's language ability matter for organization-assigned expatriates’ job performance?”. They found that the job performance of organization-assigned expatriates depends upon the organizational culture that promotes participative goal-setting and empowerment. The study’s findings also suggest that host country language ability allows organization-assigned expatriates to develop and maintain good interpersonal relationships with the host-country national colleagues, which facilitates their job performance. If you are interested in knowing more about this, please read the article What makes organization-assigned expatriates perform in the host country? A moderated mediation analysis in the India-China context