“They Are Nothing More Than His Spies on the Floor”: Local Employees’ Sensemaking and Interpretation of Expatriates’ Roles and Responsibilities

Wyant, Mizuki H.; Kramer, Michael W.

doi:10.1177/08933189211029561

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“…However, an organization and its members with primarily local/limited audiences tend to focus their identity communication efforts to more immediate others, such as a community, family, and friends.” (Askay & Gossett, 2015, p. 621).3. Explanations; for example, while the sentence “As employees move to and work in another country, their relationships with local employees (i.e., host country nationals; HCNs) play an important part in their expatriate success” (Wyant & Kramer, 2022, p. 125) does not define “local” per se, it provides information about what the author means by “local employee.”…”

Section: How To Do a Reflexive Reviewmentioning

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Forum: The Case for Reflexive Writing Practices in Management Communication and Organization Studies

Lehman,

Tienari,

Hyland

et al. 2024

Management Communication Quarterly

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Following criticism about the quality of writing in management communication and organization studies, this Forum presents arguments for change in how scholarly knowledge is communicated. The expectation today seems to be that, to get published, academic writing requires monologic and complex ways of expression. However, using formulaic and reader-exclusive language in publications limits their accessibility to a wider readership, including not only more diverse members of the disciplinary community—such as non-Anglophone scholars and junior researchers—but also those we study and write about. In our respective contributions, we argue for more meaningful communication between writers and readers achieved through writers adopting reflexive practices when crafting their texts for publication. Specifically, we suggest considering reflexivity through the following concepts: conformity and individuality, socialization, tenderness, and respect. These, we argue, help make our academic writing more accessible and meaningful.

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Section: How To Do a Reflexive Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Forum: The Case for Reflexive Writing Practices in Management Communication and Organization Studies

Lehman,

Tienari,

Hyland

et al. 2024

Management Communication Quarterly

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“…Research normally considers such violation in expectation as detrimental to the relationship between expatriates and HCNs. For example, Wyant and Kramer (2021) found that HCNs tended to interpret expatriates' roles and responsibilities negatively when they found a mismatch between their expectations for expatriates and their experiences. However, we propose that not all these incongruence situations are equally detrimental to the expatriates and HCNs dyadic relationship.…”

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Conflicts between expatriates and host country nationals during the acculturation process

Dong

Ren

2022

JGM

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PurposeConflict is one of the important aspects of the expatriate-host country nationals (HCNs) dyad. The purpose of this study is to understand how the level of conflict between assigned expatriates and HCNs emerges and evolves during acculturation over time.Design/methodology/approachBuilding on expatriate literature, diversity literature, and acculturation literature, the authors adopted a longitudinal lens and developed a conceptual model to describe the dynamic process of conflict emergence and evolvement between assigned expatriates and HCNs.FindingsThis study offers a dynamic multi-stage conceptual model with the authors' novel propositions to explain how conflicts between assigned expatriates and HCNs emerge and evolve through the acculturation process.Originality/valueThis study provided a theoretical framework demonstrating when and how conflicts between HCNs and expatriates emerge and evolve during acculturation. In doing so, the authors integrate the conflict and diversity literature with the expatriate literature and offer a theoretical foundation to enrich the authors' understanding of the conflict between expatriates and HCNs.

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“…This is not documented in the workplace. However, it is thought that local managers who observe the state of the workplace will understand the working styles of expatriates and their expected working styles and adjust their awareness and behavior (Wyant and Kramer, 2021). This is because it is necessary to work in a way that meets the expectations of the workplace to be evaluated.…”

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Differences in the organizational-commitment–rewards relationship between Chinese managers and Japanese expatriates in manufacturing companies in China

Kokubun

Yasui²

2022

EBHRM

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PurposeAs China attracts more and more foreign enterprises today, it is getting more important to consider how to enhance the organizational commitment (OC) of host country employees. This paper aims to examine the differences in the relationship between OC and rewards among Chinese managers and Japanese expatriates who work for Japanese manufacturing companies in China.Design/methodology/approachHierarchical regression analysis was used to analyze survey data gathered from 539 Chinese managers and 354 Japanese expatriates working for a total of 19 Japanese manufacturing companies in China.FindingsThe findings reveal that, for Chinese managers, role clarity had a stronger influence and autonomy had a weaker influence on OC than for Japanese expatriates. A possible reason is the ethnocentric culture of Japanese companies that leads to Japanese expatriates not sufficiently empowering local human resources. Moreover, there was no difference between senior- and junior-level Chinese managers in the association of any kind of reward with OC.Research limitations/implicationsThe most significant limitation concerns its generalizability. The authors recommend that future research use other nations' expatriates as reference groups to objectively clarify the characteristics of Chinese workers, thus testing the validity of this research.Practical implicationsThe results of this research may be used to reshape future human-resource-management practices in several types of the company located in China to facilitate attracting and employing the employees most able to make long-term contributions to the company.Originality/valueAlthough previous research has elucidated OC–rewards relation in particular countries, it has not met the potential requirements of the expatriates who face the difference in OC–rewards relation with host country national managers. In this sense, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, this research was the first attempt to tackle this theme by contributing to the literature.

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“They Are Nothing More Than His Spies on the Floor”: Local Employees’ Sensemaking and Interpretation of Expatriates’ Roles and Responsibilities

Cited by 8 publications

References 53 publications

Forum: The Case for Reflexive Writing Practices in Management Communication and Organization Studies

Forum: The Case for Reflexive Writing Practices in Management Communication and Organization Studies

Conflicts between expatriates and host country nationals during the acculturation process

Differences in the organizational-commitment–rewards relationship between Chinese managers and Japanese expatriates in manufacturing companies in China

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