Role of perceived organizational support in cross-cultural adjustment: A mediating career satisfaction model

Abstract

Previous researches were focused on assigned expatriates (AEs) and their cross-cultural adjustment (CCA) and their perks and incentives. Self-initiated expatriates (SIEs) employees are self-made and mostly neglected pool of talent and mostly based from individual perspective. The purpose of this paper is to test the impact of perceived organizational support (POS) on CCA of SIEs employees mediated by career satisfaction (CS) of SIEs employees. We conducted mediation analysis on 124 SIEs working in USA, and result supported our proposed model. It shows that there is positive effect of POS on CCA and CS. And POS also shows positive indirect effect on CCA through CS. Further we discussed the implication and limitation of this study.

Keywords:

• Assigned expatriates
• career satisfaction
• cross-cultural adjustment
• expatriation
• perceived organizational support
• self-initiated expatriates

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Uroosa Aslam

Miss. Uroosa Aslam is a Research Scholar pursuing her research from the Department of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University. Her research interests are Human Resource Management (HRM), Cross Cultural Management and Expatriate Management. Uroosa Aslam is the corresponding author and can be contacted at: [email protected].

Mohammad Fayaz

Dr. Mohammad Fayaz is working as Assistant Professor in the Women’s College (Commerce Section), Aligarh Muslim University, AMU, India . He has completed his Ph.D. from Department of Commerce, Aligarh Muslim University. His area of research and teaching interests are: Accounting & Finance, Entrepreneurship, Management.