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  title info:
    title: Factors influencing expatriates' success in international assignments
    sub title: an empirical study of Malaysian expatriates
  name:
    name part: Yussuf, Osman Abdulkerim
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: International Islamic University Malaysia
    name part: Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences
  genre: Theses, IIUM local
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: my
    place:
      place term: Kuala Lumpur
    publisher: Kulliyyah of Economics and Management Sciences, International Islamic University Malaysia
    date issued: 2014
    date issued: 2015
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    extent: xv, 238 leaves : ill. ; 30cm.
  abstract: The consequences of expatriate failure are losses, damaged corporate reputation, lost business opportunities and in extreme circumstances, expatriates may find themselves between life and death. Over the past decades, organizational operations have increased and expanded in wide range globally, and as a result, professionals are being sent abroad from their home countries by their companies on assignments. Studies have found that unfortunately, between 16 and 40% of American managers who are sent overseas for assignments return prematurely because of poor performance or inability to adjust to the foreign environment. Studies were also conducted in Japan, China, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Mexico and many others to investigate expatriates undertaking a job assigned by companies from their home countries. Different studies emphasize specific expatriate success factors elsewhere except in Malaysia. To address this gap, this research therefore builds on theories of expatriation and expatriate success issues. The research was conducted using both preliminary qualitative interview and quantitative survey methods in the Malaysian context. The purpose was to investigate the selection criteria of Malaysian expatriates that influence their success in foreign assignments, investigate the influence of Malaysian expatriates' preparedness on their success; and finally, to investigate if adjustment influences Malaysian expatriates' success in international assignments. The outcome of the preliminary qualitative interview along with previous research observations of expatriates' success in countries around the world has led to the proposal of a conceptual model to gain statistical valid quantitative results and evaluate existing research through hypothesis-testing with focus on the Malaysian context. The aim is to generalize the outcome to the general population. A model was developed containing factors such as expatriate selection, how expa…
  note: by Osman Abdulkerim Yussuf
  note: Thesis (Ph.D)--International Islamic University Malaysia, 2015.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (leaves 193-217).
  subject:
    geographic code: a-my---
  classification: HF5549.5.E45
  identifier: http://studentrepo.iium.edu.my/handle/123456789/3186
  record info:
    record content source: UIAM
    record creation date: 150604
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng