Abstract
The present study aims to explore the impact of career development support on job adaptation and withdrawal intention, and the multilevel moderating role of host country environmental factors. Through the questionnaire survey, we collected 242 expatriates’ data of 25 countries from China’s multinational corporations. Based on the constructed multilevel analysis model, we find: (1) career development support has a significant impact on job adaptation and withdrawal intention of expatriates; (2) job adaptation plays a mediating role between career development support and withdrawal intention; and (3) host country environment plays the multilevel moderating role between career development support and job adaptation. Through the multilevel model of host country environment, this study explores the mechanism of how career development support affects job adaptation and withdrawal intention. The conclusions enhance the understanding of the adaptation of expatriates and have important theoretical and practical reference value to achieve successful expatriate in the context of host country environment.
Highlights
Over the past decade, multinational corporations in emerging economies have made extraordinary achievements and gradually changed the global competitive landscape with the deepening of economic globalization
According to the analysis procedure of Zhang et al [42], when career development support was added to the job adaptation model (Model 2), career development support exerts a significant positive impact on job adaptation (γ = 0.18, p < 0.01) and H1 was verified; when career development support was added to the withdrawal intention model (Model 5), career development support exerts a significant negative impact on withdrawal intention (γ = −0.17, p < 0.01), and H2 was verified; and when the career development support and job adaptation were added into the withdrawal intention model (Model 6), both career development support (γ = −0.12, p < 0.05) and job adaptation (γ = −0.30, p < 0.01) exert a significant impact and H3 was verified
This study explored the relationships among career development support, job adaptation, and withdrawal intention under mentoring in the host country environment
Summary
Multinational corporations in emerging economies have made extraordinary achievements and gradually changed the global competitive landscape with the deepening of economic globalization. Expatriates play an important role in international operations. Work-related knowledge, and related management practice of the parent corporation with the host country, knowledge transfer [1,2,3], control [4], and coordination [5] are achieved, and expatriates lay a solid foundation for establishing the competitive advantage for multinational corporations. It is of great practical significance to improve the adaptability of expatriates and reduce the withdrawal intention of expatriates to achieve successful expatriation. Scholars have proposed many corresponding measures for this point, such as improving the frequency of cross-cultural training for expatriates [6], maintaining favorable HCN-expatriate relationship [7] and enhancing the cultural intelligence of expatriates [8]. What cannot be ignored is that the impact of mentoring on expatriates has become an important topic in the research field of expatriate management [9]
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