- Title
- The effects of perceived organisational support on expatriate adjustment, assignment completion and job satisfaction
- Creator
- Sokro, Evans; Pillay, Soma; Bednall, Timothy
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/180941
- Identifier
- vital:15876
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1177/14705958211061007
- Identifier
- ISBN:1470-5958 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- This study examines the influence of perceived organisational support (POS) on expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment, assignment completion and job satisfaction in the sub-Saharan African context. While multinationals depend on expatriates to manage their foreign subsidiaries, successful expatriation is influenced by expatriates’ cross-cultural adjustment to their host country’s environment. Survey responses from 229 expatriates were analysed using partial least squares path modelling. The results reveal that support from their organisations relates positively to expatriate adjustment, assignment completion and job satisfaction. The empirical results also demonstrate that expatriate adjustment partially mediates the relationship between POS and assignment completion and job satisfaction. Furthermore, findings suggest that assignment completion positively influences job satisfaction and partially mediates the association between POS and job satisfaction. The findings of this research have important theoretical and practical implications for multinational companies operating in sub-Saharan Africa. © The Author(s) 2021.
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications Ltd
- Relation
- International Journal of Cross Cultural Management Vol. 21, no. 3 (2021), p. 452-473
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2021
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3505 Human Resources and Industrial Relations; 3507 Strategy, Management and Organisational Behaviour; Assignment completion; Expatriate adjustment; Ghana; Job satisfaction; Perceived organisational support
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