Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility

377 Pages·2022·5.777 MB·English

by  Soo Min Toh, Angelo DeNisi

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EXPATRIATES AND MANAGING
GLOBAL MOBILITY
Multinational enterprises continue to rely heavily upon expatriates as part of their
global workforce. These expatriates, whose exact employment contract may take
different forms, are assigned to help them develop global skills as well as to foster
knowledge transfer. But managing this expatriate workforce is extremely complex,
requiring a questioning of assumptions and sensitivity to new social and cultural
dynamics. This book sets out to examine the problem of expatriate management
through an I/O psychology lens. Each chapter draws upon the expertise of scholars
from around the world to provide insights into the latest research findings and
remaining needs, pertaining to a wide variety of issues.
The contributors of this book review the current state of the research of the
issue at hand and then make recommendations for where the new frontiers of
the research should be in the coming decades. This volume covers four sets of
issues pertaining to expatriate management and global mobility in depth. First,
the different decision points organizations must make about assigning someone
to an overseas location for some period of time; second the different categories
of employees in the multinational corporation and their unique characteristics
and challenges; third, the various issues and implications of managing a globally
mobile workforce; and fourth, the unique contexts of global mobility. Overarching
future research themes are identified that lay out the research agenda for the
coming decades.
By bringing together key research, this book aims to help I/O psychologists
understand, explore, and identify new ways of contributing to the understanding
of the issues involved in managing an expatriate workforce. Incorporating state-of­
the art I/O psychology research in this unique context bears the promise of yielding
important new paradigms and practices.
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Soo Min Toh is Associate Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the University
of Toronto, and Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. Her research in
the context of organizations around the world has produced theoretical and man­
agerial insights in the areas of organizational culture change, leadership, cooperation,
and cross-cultural management.
Angelo DeNisi is the Cohen Chair of Business Administration at Tulane Uni­
versity, USA. His work has been published in many major journals in psychology
and management, and he serves or has served on more than two dozen editorial
boards, including service as the editor of the Academy of Management Journal.Hehas
also served as the president of both the Academy of Management and SIOP, and his
research has been recognized by awards from both organizations.
SIOP Organizational Frontiers Series
Series Editors FrancoFraccaroli
AngeloDeNisi UniversityofTrento, Italy
TulaneUniversity,USA SusanJackson
Kevin Murphy RutgersUniversity,USA
University ofLimerick,Ireland PaulSparrow
Lancaster University,UK
Editorial Board
HannesZacher
DerekR.Avery
LiepzigUniversity,Germany
WakeForest University,USA
JingZhou
JillEllingson
RiceUniversity, USA
University ofKansas,USA
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EXPATRIATES AND
MANAGING GLOBAL
MOBILITY
Edited by Soo Min Toh and Angelo DeNisi
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Names: Toh, Soo Min, 1975-editor. | DeNisi, Angelo S., editor.

Title: Expatriates and managing global mobility / [edited by] Soo Min Toh and

Angelo DeNisi.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2022. |

Series: SIOP organizational frontiers series | Includes bibliographical

references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2022011459 (print) | LCCN 2022011460 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780367621636 (paperback) | ISBN 9780367626334 (hardback) |

ISBN 9781003110033 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Employees--Relocation. | International business

enterprises--Employees--Relocation. | International business

enterprises--Personnel management. | Foreign workers. | Labor mobility.

Classification: LCC HF5549.5.R47 E97 2022 (print) |

LCC HF5549.5.R47 (ebook) | DDC 658.3/12--dc23/eng/20220309

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022011459

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2022011460

ISBN: 978-0-367-62633-4 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-62163-6 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-003-11003-3 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003110033

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CONTENTS

Series Foreword ix
1 Introduction: Why this Volume is Needed at this Time 1
Soo Min Toh and Angelo DeNisi
2 Choosing Candidates for International Assignments 11
Ann Marie Ryan and Angelo S. DeNisi
3 Performance Management for Expatriates 45
Arup Varma, Chun-Hsiao Wang, and Tanjia Coleman
4 Expatriate Compensation in Contemporary Organizations 58
Ishbel McWha-Hermann and Emily Cook-Lundgren
5 Women and Minority Expatriates 83
Susan Shortland and Stephen J. Perkins
6 Self-Initiated Expatriates 114
Jan Selmer, Vesa Suutari, and Chris Brewster
7 Shaping the Future of Inpatriation Research 137
Miriam Moeller, Jane F. Maley and Timothy Kiessling
8 The Host-Country National Perspective in the Expatriate
Management Process: A Review and Research Agenda 172
Marina A. Schmitz, Soo Min Toh and Xue Xiang
viii Contents
9 Home Is Wherever I’m With You: A Review of the
Repatriate’s Microsystem and Directions for Research 207
Sarah E. Henry and Margaret A. Shaffer
10 Leadership Development and Career Outcomes of
Expatriation 237
Connie R. Wanberg, JiYeon Hyun and Autumn Touchstone
11 An Identity Work Perspective of Expatriates and Cross-
cultural Transitions: A Review and Future Research Agenda 258
Maria L. Kraimer, B. Sebastian Reiche and Maïlys M. George
12 Expatriates’ Work–Nonwork Interface – What Do We Know
About It and What Should We Learn? 282
Liisa Mäkelä, Vesa Suutari and Tania Biswas
13 Expatriation in High-Risk Countries: A Review and Dynamic
Psychological Contract Perspective 306
Benjamin Bader, Anna Katharina Bader, Denise M. Rousseau and
Tassilo Schuster
14 Global Assignments and Virtual Work in a Post-Pandemic
World 329
Wayne F. Cascio and David G. Collings
15 Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility: What We’ve
Learned and Where We Must Go Next 346
Angelo DeNisi and Soo Min Toh
Index 356
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SERIES FOREWORD

The world of work is increasingly interconnected, and a significant number of
employees will spend at least part of their career working abroad. Some will take
assignments in a foreign affiliate of their corporation and others will strike out to
find new work abroad. The experiences of these expatriates, the challenges they
face, the opportunities they provide to their home organization and the effects of
expatriate work on families are all topics of a growing body of research.
Toh and DeNisi have assembled a distinguished set of authors from around the
world to examine the challenges and opportunities an expatriate workforce faces and
presents. They examine the way expatriates are recruited and selected, the way they
are managed, the cultural barriers they encounter, and the changing nature of
expatriate work in a digital age. They consider the ways expatriate experiences affect
careers, and the differences in career trajectories for women and members of min­
ority groups. They examine the way expatriates impact the sharing of knowledge
and expertise across world-spanning organizations. They examine the way expatria­
tion affects families and how expatriate families balance the challenges of work and
home life. In its final two sections, this volume examines the complex process of
repatriation and lays out an agenda for future research on the expatriate workforce.
The goal of the Organizational Frontiers Series is to publish books that help to define
and advance the frontiers of our knowledge about behavior in organizations and sti­
mulate future research and applications. Expatriates and Managing Global Mobility meets
this goal admirably, bringing together a large and diverse body of research and charting
the future for work in this area. I am proud to welcome this volume to our series.
Kevin R. Murphy
University of Limerick
Series Co-Editor