THE DETERMINANT FACTORS OF EXPATRIATE MANAGER FAILURE IN THE INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENT

Abstract

ABSTRACT The international assignment requires an organization send their staff abroad for high potential career development, to coordinate global lines of business, transfer the organization knowledge in abroad, expand into new markets worldwide and also manage an international subsidiary. A successful expatriate manager is generally requires an extensive amount of time and financial but a failed expatriate can be even more costly for an organization. Therefore, this study is very important to investigate the determinant factors of expatriate manager failed in their international assignment. Generally, there are many factors influencing the expatriate’s manager failed in their international assignment such as lack of knowledge and skill, inability to cope with new culture, personal conflicts and so on. However, the current study will be focusing on the several factors; difficulties to cope with new culture, language problem, family problem and emotional immaturity. The objectives of the study are to examine the relationship between family problems, inability to adapt with new culture, language problem and emotional immaturity towards expatriate failure. Then, to determine the most factor contribute towards expatriate manager failure. This study is using quantitative method by randomly distributed 140 set of questionnaires to expatriate managers. The result of the study revealed that the family problems and emotional immaturity is supported and influence the expatriate manager failure while inability to adapt with new culture and language problems are not supported of the current study. Finally, the most factor contribute to the expatriate manager failure in their international assignment is emotional immaturity.