Expatriate Management

Not Restricted to Selection Research: Accounting for Indirect Range Restriction in Organizational Research

“…Accordingly, it is possible that some (or much) of the estimated residual variability is due to differential variability on personality and/or adjustment. We tested this hypothesis by re-analyzing their meta-analyses of adjustment with the three traits most commonly discussed in relation to adjustment-emotional stability, openness, and extraversion (Albrecht, Ones, & Sinangil, 2018;Ones, Sinangil, & Wiernik, 2018). 9 Analyses.…”

Expatriate effectiveness: from conceptualization to operationalization

“…The validity of many existing measures used for expatriate performance is questionable. In addition to the use of invalid single-item measures on expatriate overall performance (Albrecht et al, 2018), researchers often generate a small number of items to measure contextual performance or other effectiveness criteria without reporting the measure’s reliability and validity.…”

“…However, very little effort has been devoted to understanding the nature of expatriate effectiveness in its own right, that is, how this criterion construct should be conceptualized and measured, and how the measures should be used. Ambiguous conceptualization and weak operationalization of expatriate effectiveness continue to hinder expatriate studies, leading some researchers to call for greater attention to this issue (Mendenhall et al, 2002; Albrecht et al, 2018; Salgado & Bastida, 2017; Sinangil & Ones, 2001). For instance, Salgado and Bastida (2017) addressed the definitional issues of expatriate effectiveness but they defined expatriate effectiveness in an unsophisticated, overly simple way that was incomplete, i.e., generally conceiving of it as a composite of job performance and completion of the assignment (vs. early return).…”

“…Our second purpose is to provide operational guidelines for expatriate effectiveness measurement. Criterion measurement has been overlooked in the expatriate literature: convenient measures have been used frequently without due consideration for validity and appropriateness (Albrecht et al, 2018; Chen et al, 2010). We are not aware of any published effort to comprehensively discuss strategies for measuring expatriate effectiveness in terms of the selection of measurement methods, the timing of measurement, the selection of raters, and scoring strategies.…”

“…Our article makes three contributions to the cross-cultural management literature. First, we go beyond the existing literature wherein the primary research goal is identifying and measuring predictive constructs of effectiveness (Mol et al, 2005a; Albrecht et al, 2018). In contrast, we focus on understanding and measuring the criterion constructs.…”