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Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment

The international assignment requires an organization send their staff abroad for high potential career development, to coordinate global lines of business, transfer the organization knowledge in abroad, expand into new markets worldwide and also manage an international subsidiary. A successful expa...

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Main Authors:	Mansor, Mohd Fitri, Abd Hamid, Nurzawani, Kamil, Syahida, Abu, Noor Hidayah
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	AENSI Publisher 2014
Subjects:	HD28 Management. Industrial Management
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spelling	my.uum.repo.316632025-01-08T05:10:43Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31663/ Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment Mansor, Mohd Fitri Abd Hamid, Nurzawani Kamil, Syahida Abu, Noor Hidayah HD28 Management. Industrial Management The international assignment requires an organization send their staff abroad for high potential career development, to coordinate global lines of business, transfer the organization knowledge in abroad, expand into new markets worldwide and also manage an international subsidiary. A successful expatriate manager is generally requires an extensive amount of time and financial but a failed expatriate can be even more costly for an organization. Therefore, this study is very important to investigate the determinant factors of expatriate manager failed in their international assignment. Generally, there are many factors influencing the expatriate’s manager failed in their international assignment such as lack of knowledge and skill, inability to cope with new culture, personal conflicts and so on. However, the current study will be focusing on the several factors; difficulties to cope with new culture, language problem, family problem and emotional immaturity. The objectives of the study are to examine the relationship between family problems, inability to adapt with new culture, language problem and emotional immaturity towards expatriate failure. Then, to determine the most factor contribute towards expatriate manager failure. This study is using quantitative method by randomly distributed 140 set of questionnaires to expatriate managers. The result of the study revealed that the family problems and emotional immaturity is supported and influence the expatriate manager failure while inability to adapt with new culture and language problems are not supported of the current study. Finally, the most factor contribute to the expatriate manager failure in their international assignment is emotional immaturity AENSI Publisher 2014 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/31663/1/AEB%208%209%20584-592%202014.pdf Mansor, Mohd Fitri and Abd Hamid, Nurzawani and Kamil, Syahida and Abu, Noor Hidayah (2014) Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment. Advances in Environmental Biology (AEB), 8 (9). pp. 584-592. ISSN 1995-0756 http://www.aensiweb.com/aeb/
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spellingShingle	HD28 Management. Industrial Management Mansor, Mohd Fitri Abd Hamid, Nurzawani Kamil, Syahida Abu, Noor Hidayah Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment
description	The international assignment requires an organization send their staff abroad for high potential career development, to coordinate global lines of business, transfer the organization knowledge in abroad, expand into new markets worldwide and also manage an international subsidiary. A successful expatriate manager is generally requires an extensive amount of time and financial but a failed expatriate can be even more costly for an organization. Therefore, this study is very important to investigate the determinant factors of expatriate manager failed in their international assignment. Generally, there are many factors influencing the expatriate’s manager failed in their international assignment such as lack of knowledge and skill, inability to cope with new culture, personal conflicts and so on. However, the current study will be focusing on the several factors; difficulties to cope with new culture, language problem, family problem and emotional immaturity. The objectives of the study are to examine the relationship between family problems, inability to adapt with new culture, language problem and emotional immaturity towards expatriate failure. Then, to determine the most factor contribute towards expatriate manager failure. This study is using quantitative method by randomly distributed 140 set of questionnaires to expatriate managers. The result of the study revealed that the family problems and emotional immaturity is supported and influence the expatriate manager failure while inability to adapt with new culture and language problems are not supported of the current study. Finally, the most factor contribute to the expatriate manager failure in their international assignment is emotional immaturity
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title	Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment
title_short	Determinants of Expatriate Manager Failures in the International Assignment
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