Expatriate Success – Suggested reading for HR professionals and managers

We can provide in-house training almost anywhere in the world that covers the concepts from the following reading list. These can be summarised as follows:

  • How to increase the chances of success of international assignments and expatriate assignees
  • Personal and organisational factors that lead to expatriate success
  • What issues need to be planned into an overseas assignment policy
  • Why training is rarely carried out (but should be)
  • Factors affecting the expatriate partner or spouse that ultimately also affect the assignment
  • Women and expatriate assignments: why the biggest barrier faced by females in expatriate assignments is often in the original country

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Adler, N. (2002). International dimensions of organizational behavior (4thed). Cincinnati: South-Western.

Bhaskar-Shrinivas, P., Harrison, D. A., Shaffer, M., & Luk, D. M. (2005). Input-based and time-based models of international adjustment: Meta-analytic evidence and theoretical extensions. Academy of Management Journal, 48(2), 257-281.

Caligiuri, P. M., Hyland, M. M., Joshi, A., & Bross, A. S. (1998). Testing a theoretical model for examining the relationship between family adjustment and expatriates’ work adjustment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 83(4), 598-614.

Chen, Y., Tjosvold, D., & Su, S. F. (2005). Goal interdependence for working across cultural boundaries: Chinese employees with foreign managers. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 29(4), 429-447.

Domenici-Lake, P. L. (2003). Biopsychosocial influences on female accompanying expatriate spouses’ psychological well-being in Tokyo, Japan. (Doctoral dissertation). Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 63 (11-B), 5511. (Print)

Fischlmayr, I. C. (2002). Female self-perception as barrier to international careers International Journal of Human Resource Management. Special Issue: Women in global business, 13(5), 773-783.

Franke, J., & Nicholson, N. (2002). Who shall we send: Cultural and other influences on the rating of selection criteria for expatriate assignments. International Journal Of Cross Cultural Management, 2(1), 21-36.

Gong, Y., & Fan, J. (2006). Longitudinal examination of the role of goal orientation in cross-cultural adjustment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(1), 176-184.

Harrison, D. A., & Shaffer, M. A. (2005). Mapping the criterion space for expatriate success: Task- and relationship-based performance, effort and adaptation. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(8), 1454-1474.

Harrison, D. A., Shaffer, M. A., & Bhaskar-Shrinivas, P. (2004). Going places: Roads more and less travelled in research on expatriate experiences. In J. J. Martocchio (Ed.), Research in personnel and human resources management, vol 23. (pp. 199-247). Elsevier Science/JAI Press: US.

Harvey, M., & Kiessling, T. (2004). The negative effects of being a ‘late’ newcomer during an expatriation assignment. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 28(6), 551-576.

Holopainen, J., & Björkman, I. (2005). The personal characteristics of the successful expatriate: A critical review of the literature and an empirical investigation. Personnel Review, 34(1), 37-50.

Kaye, M. & Taylor, W. (1997). Expatriate culture shock in China: A study in the Beijing hotel industry. Journal of Managerial Psychology, 12(8), 496-510.

Kealy, D.J., & Ruben, B.D. (1983). Cross-cultural personnel: selection criteria, issues, and methods. In Landis, D., and Brislin, R. (Eds), Handbook of intercultural training, Vol.1: Issues of theory and design. New York: Pergamon Press. pp.155-74.

Kraimer, M. L., & Wayne, S. J. (2004). An examination of perceived organizational support as a multidimensional construct in the context of an expatriate assignment. Journal Of Management, 30(2), 209-237.
Linehan, M., & Scullion, H. (2004). Towards an understanding of the female expatriate experience in Europe. Human Resource Management Review. Special Issue: Contemporary Debates in European Human Resource Management, 14(4), 433-448.

Liu, X., & Shaffer, M. A. (2005). An investigation of expatriate adjustment and performance: A social capital perspective. International Journal Of Cross Cultural Management, 5(3), 235-254.

MacDonald, S., & Arthur, N. (2002). Connecting career management to repatriation adjustment. Career Development International, 10(2), 145-159.

Mol, S. T. (2003). Prediction of expatriate success as an Industrial/Organizational psychological phenomenon: A theoretical discourse/Voorspellen van expatriate-succes als personeelspsychologisch fenomeen: Een theoretische uiteenzetting. Gedrag en Organisatie, 16(6), 385-392.

Mol, S. T., Born, M. P., Willemsen, M. E., & Van Der Molen,Henk T. (2005). Predicting expatriate job performance for selection purposes: A quantitative review. Journal Of Cross-cultural Psychology, 36(5), 590-620. Retrieved July 19, 2006, from Psychology: A SAGE Full-Text Collection database.

Palthe, J. (2004). The relative importance of antecedents to cross-cultural adjustment: Implications for managing a global workforce. International Journal of Intercultural Relations, 28(1), 37-59.

Riepe, S. M. (2005). Identifying predictors of expatriate job performance using multiple raters. (Doctoral dissertation). Dissertation Abstracts International: Section B: The Sciences and Engineering, 66 (2-B), 1208. (Print)

Selmer, J. (2005). Cross-cultural training and expatriate adjustment in china: Western joint venture managers. Personnel Review, 34(1), 68-84.

Selmer, J. (2005). Is bigger better size of the location and expatriate adjustment in china. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 16(7), 1228-1242.

Selmer, J. (2004). Psychological barriers to adjustment of western business expatriates in china: Newcomers vs long stayers. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 15(4-5), 794-813.

Selmer, J. (2002). Coping strategies applied by western vs overseas Chinese business expatriates in china. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 13(1), 19-34.

Selmer, J. (2001). Psychological barriers to adjustment and how they affect coping strategies: Western business expatriates in china. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 12(2), 151-165.

Selmer, J., & Lam, H. (2004). “Third-culture kids”: Future business expatriates Personnel Review, 33(4), 430-445.

Selmer, J., & Leung, A. S. M. (2003). International adjustment of female vs male business expatriates. International Journal of Human Resource Management, 14(7), 1117-1131.

Selmer, J., & Leung, A. S. m. (2003). Personal characteristics of female vs male business expatriates. International Journal Of Cross Cultural Management, 3(2), 195-212.

Shaffer, M. A., & Harrison, D. A. (2001). Forgotten partners of international assignments: Development and test of a model of spouse adjustment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(2), 238-254.

Shaffer, M. A., Harrison, D. A., Gilley, K. M., & Luk, D. M. (2001). Struggling for balance amid turbulence on international assignments: Work–family conflict, support and commitment. Journal Of Management, 27(1), 99-121.

Shaffer, M. A., Harrison, D. A., Gregersen, H., Black, J. S., & Ferzandi, L. A. (2006). You can take it with you: Individual differences and expatriate effectiveness. Journal of Applied Psychology, 91(1), 109-125.

Shimoni, T., Ronen, S., & Roziner, I. (2005). Predicting expatriate adjustment: Israel as a host country. International Journal Of Cross Cultural Management, 5(3), 293-312.

Sinangil, H. K., & Ones, D. S. (2003). Gender differences in expatriate job performance. Applied Psychology: An International Review, 52(3), 461-475.

Stahl, G. K., & Caligiuri, P. (2005). The effectiveness of expatriate coping strategies: The moderating role of cultural distance, position level, and time on the international assignment. Journal of Applied Psychology, 90(4), 603-615.

Stroh, L. K., Varma, A., & Valy-Durbin, S. J. (2000). Why are women left at home: Are they unwilling to go on international assignments Journal of World Business, 35(3), 241-255.

Tan, J. A. C., Härtel, C. E. J., Panipucci, D., & Strybosch, V. E. (2005). The effect of emotions in cross-cultural expatriate experiences. Cross Cultural Management, 12(2), 4-15.

van der Velde, Mandy E.G., Bossink, C. J. H., & Jansen, P. G. W. (2005). Gender differences in the determinants of the willingness to accept an international assignment. Journal of vocational behavior, 66(1), 81-103.

Vance, C. M., & Paik, Y. (2001). Where do American women face their biggest obstacle to expatriate career success back in their own backyard. Cross Cultural Management, 8(3-4), 98-116.

Ward, C., Bochner, S., & Furnham, A. (2001). The psychology of culture shock (2nd ed.). Routledge, New York, NY: US.