TY - JOUR
T1 - International adjusment of female vs male business expatriates
AU - Selmer, Jan
AU - Leung, Alicia S.M.
N1 - Copyright:
Copyright 2008 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2003/11
Y1 - 2003/11
N2 - Despite a host of supportive anecdotal evidence and an increasing demand for business expatriates, women are a relatively untapped source for expatriate assignments. To compare their international adjustment. Western female and male business expatriates responded to a mail survey in Hong Kong. Controlling for differences in background variables between the two gender groups, there was no gender difference in terms of general adjustment, but there were indications that female expatriates had higher interaction and work adjustment than their male counterparts. On the other hand, the men may have experienced a higher degree of psychological adjustment than the women. Implications of these findings for globalizing firms, as well as for their female employees, are discussed in detail.
AB - Despite a host of supportive anecdotal evidence and an increasing demand for business expatriates, women are a relatively untapped source for expatriate assignments. To compare their international adjustment. Western female and male business expatriates responded to a mail survey in Hong Kong. Controlling for differences in background variables between the two gender groups, there was no gender difference in terms of general adjustment, but there were indications that female expatriates had higher interaction and work adjustment than their male counterparts. On the other hand, the men may have experienced a higher degree of psychological adjustment than the women. Implications of these findings for globalizing firms, as well as for their female employees, are discussed in detail.
KW - Adjustment
KW - Female and male expatriates
KW - Hong Kong
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0345581226&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/0958519032000114237
DO - 10.1080/0958519032000114237
M3 - Journal article
AN - SCOPUS:0345581226
SN - 0958-5192
VL - 14
SP - 1117
EP - 1131
JO - International Journal of Human Resource Management
JF - International Journal of Human Resource Management
IS - 7
ER -