305
Views
10
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Perceptual differences between expatriate faculty and senior managers regarding acculturation at a Korean university

ORCID Icon &
Pages 429-443 | Received 07 May 2020, Accepted 19 Aug 2020, Published online: 01 Oct 2020

References

  • Altbach, P. G., & Yudkevich, M. (2017). International faculty in 21st century universities: Themes and variations. In M. Yudkevich, P. G. Altbach, & L. E. Rumbley (Eds.), International faculty in higher education: Comparative perspectives on recruitment, integration and impact (pp. 1–14). Routledge.
  • Amir, P., Narges, N., & Wong, S.-F. (2013). Adjustment, motivation for retention and environmental similarity: Toward satisfaction among expatriate academics. Jurnal Teknologi (Social Sciences), 64(3), 123–130. www.jurnalteknologi.utm
  • Berger, R., Safdar, S., Spieß, E., Bekk, M., & Font, A. (2019). Acculturation of Erasmus students: Using the multidimensional individual difference acculturation model framework. International Journal of Psychology, 54(6), 739–749. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijop.12526
  • Brown, C. A. (2019). Foreign faculty tokenism, English, and “internationalization” in a Japanese university. Asia Pacific Journal of Education, 39(3), 404–416. https://doi.org/10.1080/02188791.2019.1598850
  • Byun, K.-Y. (2008). New public management in Korean higher education: Is it reality or another fad? Asia Pacific Education Review, 9(2), 190–205. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03026499
  • Cai, L., & Hall, C. (2015). Motivations, expectations and experiences of expatriate academic staff on an international branch campus in China. Journal of Studies in International Education, 20(3), 207–222. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315315623055
  • Cameron, K., & Smart, J. (1998). Maintaining effectiveness amid downsizing and decline in institutions of higher education. Research in Higher Education, 39(1), 65–86. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018704428790
  • Chun, E., & Evans, A. (2009). Special issue: Bridging the university divide – Globalization and reciprocal empowerment in higher education. ASHE Higher Education Report, 35(1), 1–144.
  • Cooper, J. E., & Stevens, D. D. (Eds). (2002). Tenure in the sacred garden: Issues and strategies for women and minority faculty. State University of New York Press.
  • Froese, F. (2010). Acculturation experiences in Korea and Japan. Culture & Psychology, 16(3), 333–348. https://doi.org/10.1177/1354067X10371138
  • Froese, F. (2012). Motivation and adjustment of self-initiated expatriates: The case of expatriate academics in South Korea. The International Journal of Human Resource Management, 23(6), 1095–1112. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2011.561220
  • Gheorghiu, E., & Stephens, C. S. (2016). Working with “the others”: Immigrant academics’ acculturation strategies as determinants of perceptions of conflict at work. The Social Science Journal, 53(4), 521–533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.soscij.2016.08.002
  • Gress, D. G., & Ilon, L. (2009). Successful integration of foreign faculty into Korean Universities: A proposed framework. KEDI Journal of Educational Policy, 6(2), 183–204.
  • Hall, E. T. (1981). Beyond culture. Random House.
  • Hsieh, B., & Nguyen, H. T. (2020). Identity-informed mentoring to support acculturation of female faculty of color in higher education: An Asian American female mentoring relationship case study. Journal of Diversity in Higher Education, 13(2), 169–180. https://doi.org/10.1037/dhe0000118
  • Huang, F. (2018). International faculty at Japanese universities: Their demographic characteristics and work roles. Asia Pacific Education Review, 19(2), 263–272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-018-9536-7
  • Jiang, X., Napoli, R. D., Borg, M., Maunder, R., Fry, H., & Walsh, E. (2010). Becoming and being an academic: The perspectives of Chinese staff in two research‐intensive UK universities. Studies in Higher Education, 3(2), 155–170. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070902995213
  • Kezar, A. J., & Eckel, P. D. (2002). The effect of institutional culture on change strategies in higher education: Universal principles or culturally responsive concepts? The Journal of Higher Education, 73(4), 435–460. https://doi.org/10.1080/00221546.2002.11777159
  • Kim, S. (2016). Western faculty ‘flight risk’ at a Korean university and the complexities of internationalisation in Asian higher education. Comparative Education, 52(1), 72–90. https://doi.org/10.1080/03050068.2015.1125620
  • Kim, T. (2005). Internationalisation of higher education in South Korea: Reality, rhetoric, and disparity in academic culture and identities. Australian Journal of Education, 49(1), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.1177/000494410504900105
  • Lee, J.-K. (1999a). Historic factors affecting educational administration in Korean higher education. Higher Education Review, 32(1), 7–23.
  • Lee, J.-K. (1999b). Organizational structure and culture in Korean higher education. International Higher Education, 16, 17–30.
  • Lee, J.-K. (2001). Confucian thought affecting leadership and organizational culture of Korean higher education. Radical Pedagogy, 3(3), 1–11. http://radicalpedagogy.icaap.org/content/issue3_3/5 – lee.html
  • Li, M., Yang, R., & Wu, J. (2018). Translating transnational capital into professional development: A study of China’s thousand youth talents scheme scholars. Asia Pacific Education Review, 19(2), 229–239. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-018-9533-x
  • Meng, Q., Zhu, C., & Cao, C. (2017). Chinese international students’ social connectedness, social and academic adaptation: The mediating role of global competence. Higher Education, 75(1), 131–147. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0129-x
  • Mihut, G., de Gayardon, A., & Rudt, Y. (2017). The long-term mobility of internationalfaculty: A literature review. In M. Yudkevich, P. G. Altbach, & L. E. Rumbley (Eds.), International faculty in higher education: Comparative perspectives on recruitment, integration and impact (pp. 15–31). Routledge.
  • Ministry of Education. (2007). Memorandum for Hiring university professors in 2008. (in Korean).
  • Ministry of Education. (2018). Higher education in Korea. Retrieved 7 October 2018, from http://www.academyinfo.go.kr/.
  • Mok, K.-H. (2007). Questing for internationalization of universities in Asia: Critical reflections. Journal of Studies in International Education, 11(3/4), 433–454. https://doi.org/10.1177/1028315306291945
  • Morley, L., Alexiadou, N., Garaz, S., Gonzalez-Monteagudo, J., & Taba, M. (2018). Internationalisation and migrant academics: The hidden narratives of mobility. Higher Education, 76(3), 537–554. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-017-0224-z
  • O’Meara, K. A., Lounder, A., & Campbell, C. M. (2014). To heaven or hell: Sensemakingabout why faculty leave. The Journal of Higher Education, 85(5), 603–632. https://doi.org/10.1353/jhe.2014.0027
  • Ortiga, Y. Y., Choe, M.-H., Sondhi, G., & Wang, J. (2019). Working within the aspiring center: Professional status and mobilities among migrant faculty in Singapore. Higher Education Policy, 32(2), 149–166. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41307-017-0078-0
  • Palmer, J. D., & Cho, Y.-H. (2012). South Korean higher education internationalization policies: Perceptions and experiences. Asia Pacific Education Review, 13(3), 387–401. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-012-9204-2
  • Plurilingual expatriate teachers in higher education: Roles and impacts. (2019). The Journal of Higher Education (Special Edition), 9, 3.
  • Richardson, J., & Zikic, J. (2007). The darker side of an international academic career. Career Development International, 12(2), 164–186. https://doi.org/10.1108/13620430710733640
  • Roulston, K. (2019). Research interviewers as ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowers’. Chapter 3. In K. Roulson (Ed.), Interactional studies of qualitative research interviews (pp. 59–78). E-Book: John Benjamins Publishing Company.
  • Rudmin, F. W. (2003). Critical history of the acculturation psychology of assimilation, separation, integration, and marginalization. Review of General Psychology, 7(1), 3–37. https://doi.org/10.1037/1089-2680.7.1.3
  • Sadao, K. C. (2003). Living in two worlds: Success and the bicultural faculty of color. The Review of Higher Education, 26(4), 397–418. https://doi.org/10.1353/rhe.2003.0034
  • Sam, D. L., & Berry, J. W. (2010). Acculturation: When individuals and groups of different cultural backgrounds meet. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 5(4), 472–481. https://doi.org/10.1177/1745691610373075
  • Schwartz, S. J., Unger, J. B., Zamboanga, B. L., & Szapocznik, J. (2010). Rethinking the concept of acculturation: Implications for theory and research. American Psychologist, 65(4), 237–251. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0019330
  • Shin, J.-C. (2012). Higher education development in Korea: Western university ideas, Confucian tradition, and economic development. Higher Education, 64(1), 59–72. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10734-011-9480-5
  • Shin, J.-C., & Gress, D. G. (2018). Expatriate academics and managing diversity: A Korean host university’s perspective. Asia Pacific Education Review, 19(2), 297–306. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-018-9539-4
  • Shin, J.-C., Jung, J., & Lee, S.-J. (2016). Academic inbreeding of Korean professors: Academic training, networks, and their performance. In J. F. Galaz-Fontes, A. Arimoto, U. Teichler, & J. Brennan (Eds.), Biographies and careers throughout academic life (pp. 187–208). Springer.
  • Smart, J., & St. John, E. P. (1996). Organizational culture and effectiveness in higher education: A test of the “culture type” and “strong culture” hypotheses. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 18(3), 219–241. https://doi.org/10.3102/01623737018003219
  • Tabbodi, M. L. (2009). Effects of leadership behaviour on the faculty commitment of humanities departments in the University of Mysore, India: Regarding factors of age group, educational qualifications and gender. Educational Studies, 35(1), 21–26. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055690802288510
  • Tahir, L., Abdullah, T., Ali, F., & Daud, K. (2014). Academics transformational leadership: An investigation of heads of department leadership behaviours in Malaysian public universities. Educational Studies, 40(5), 473–495. https://doi.org/10.1080/03055698.2014.932272
  • Tierney, W. G. (1997). Organizational socialization in higher education. The Journal of higher Education, 68(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.2307/2959934
  • Tierney, W. G. (2008). Trust and organizational culture in higher education. J. Valimma & O.-H. Ylijoke Eds., Cultural perspectives on higher education. Chapter 3 (27–41). Springer.
  • Trembath, J. L. (2016). The professional lives of expatriate academics: Construct clarity and implications for expatriate management in higher education. Journal of Global Mobility, 4(2), 112–130. https://doi.org/10.1108/JGM-04-2015-0012
  • Trowler, P., & Knight, P. T. (2000). Coming to know in higher education: Theorisingfaculty entry to new work contexts. Higher Education Research & Development, 19(1), 27–42. https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360050020453
  • Wan, C. D., & Sirat, M. (2018). International academics in Malaysian public universities: Recruitment, integration, and retention. Asia Pacific Education Review, 19(2), 241–252. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-018-9534-9
  • Worthington, C. (2000). Combatting discrimination at a Japanese university. Asian Perspective, 24(4), 131–157. https://www.jstor.org/stable/42705310
  • Wu, X., & Huang, F. (2018). International faculty in China: Case studies of four leading universities in Shanghai. Asia Pacific Education Review, 19(2), 253–262. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12564-018-9535-8
  • Yang, I.-J., & Kelly, A. (2009). Assumptions in Korean organizations and their implications in a cross-cultural setting. In W. H. Mobley, Y. Wang, & M. Li (Eds.), Advances in global leadership (Advances in global leadership, Volume 5) (pp. 29–320). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
  • Yorke, M. (2000). Developing a quality culture in higher education. Tertiary Education and Management, 6(1), 19–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/13583883.2000.9967008
  • Yudkevich, M., Altbach, P. G., & Rumbley, L. E. (Eds). (2017). International faculty in higher education: Comparative perspectives on recruitment, integration and impact. Routledge.
  • Zhou, Y., Jindal-Snape, D., Topping, K., & Todman, J. (2008). Theoretical models of culture shock and adaptation in international students in higher education. Studies in Higher Education, 33(1), 63–75. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075070701794833

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.