Expatriate career intentions: Links to career adaptability and cultural intelligence

被引:48
作者
Presbitero, Alfred [1 ]
Quita, Christine
机构
[1] Deakin Univ, Deakin Business Sch, Dept Management, Melbourne, Vic, Australia
关键词
Expatriate career intentions; Career adaptability; Cultural intelligence; Philippines; ADAPT-ABILITIES SCALE; WORK; EXPERIENCES; DIMENSIONS; REASONS; MODEL; FORM;
D O I
10.1016/j.jvb.2016.11.001
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Given the increasing rate of global mobility, it is important to have a greater understanding of the factors that influence intentions for expatriate careers. Guided by the Career Construction Theory and Intelligence Theory, this study takes the view that self-initiated expatriation as a form of global mobility is an adaptive vocational behavior driven by an individual's self-regulatory capacity to thrive in another country and work to build one's career. This study posits that individuals who want to work overseas rely mainly on their adaptive resources to develop their careers. Additionally, career adaptability, as a self-regulatory competency, is posited to be reinforced by an individual's intercultural capability (i.e., cultural intelligence). To test these assertions, data were collected in a sample of university students (n = 514) in the Philippines, a country reported to have high rates of overseas migration for economic and career-related reasons. Career adaptability was found to be positively and significantly related to overseas career intentions. In addition, cultural intelligence was found to moderate the said relationship. These results offer the groundwork for understanding the earlier stages of expatriate careers and, in particular, how the intention to have a career in another country is developed and influenced by the interaction between the self-regulatory characteristics and intercultural capability of individuals. (C) 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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