Invited Reaction: Factors Affecting Cross-Cultural Adjustment--Training, Experience, and Individual Differences

Autor/inn/en	Budworth, Marie-Helene; DeGama, Nadia
Titel	Invited Reaction: Factors Affecting Cross-Cultural Adjustment--Training, Experience, and Individual Differences
Quelle	In: Human Resource Development Quarterly, 23 (2012) 3, S.331-340 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1044-8004
DOI	10.1002/hrdq.21142
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Developing Nations; Foreign Countries; Cultural Context; Individual Differences; Employees; Cultural Awareness; Conflict Resolution; Education Work Relationship; Job Skills; Acculturation; Adjustment (to Environment); South Korea + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Ausland; Individueller Unterschied; Employee; Arbeitnehmer; Beschäftigter; Cultural identity; Kulturelle Identität; Conflict solving; Konfliktlösung; Konfliktregelung; Produktive Fertigkeit; Akkulturation; Korea; Republik
Abstract	In today's global marketplace, it is critical that one develops and prepares employees for working across borders in a range of cultural contexts. The organization's ability to compete will be predicated on the ability of its people to lead, manage, negotiate, and resolve conflict with clients, colleagues, and business partners around the world. As was once the case, there is no longer one dominant economic force in the world. One product now moves easily across countries as it is envisioned, designed, created, manufactured, and sold. Similarly, service organizations need to work within a wide range of countries in order to meet the needs of a single organization. As a result, equipping the workers with the skills required to work within a range of cultures has become a business requirement. In this article, the authors posits that organizations need to ensure that their talent has the necessary skills to compete in today's global marketplace. By investigating expatriate cross-cultural adjustment, particularly within a context of an emerging economy--Korea--Moon, Choi, and Jung (2012) underscore the importance of such a research endeavor. Moon and colleagues' (2012) theoretical model simultaneously explores how several factors relevant to expatriate cross-cultural adjustment are related, and thus provides richness to the current literature. While the authors' reactions highlight some concerns with Moon and colleagues' (2012) study, they are offered in a collegial spirit in the hope that fellow researchers may consider these comments in order to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the factors that contribute to expatriate cross-cultural adjustment. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10