2020 Fiscal Year Research-status Report
Antecedents of Expatriate Cross-Cultural Adjustment and the Mechanisms of its Influence on Employee Outcomes
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20K13555
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| Research Institution | Okayama University |
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Principal Investigator |
GONG YUANYUAN 岡山大学, グローバル人材育成院, 准教授 (70827493)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2020-04-01 – 2024-03-31
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| Keywords | Emotion differentiation / Helping behavior |
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
This research will systematically study the causes and mechanisms of expatriate cross-cultural adjustment to provide effective coping strategies for individuals and organizations to promote individual well-being and organizational efficiency. The first stage is to understand expatriate cross-cultural adjustment from an emotional perspective and organizational factors that influence the relationship.
Major groundwork was conducted in FY2020. A literature review was conducted to ensure the theoretical soundness of the model while a user-friendly scale of emotion differentiation was developed. The paper "Negative Emotions and Helping Behavior: the Moderating role of Negative Emotional Differentiation" was presented at the European Academy of Management Annual Conference. The paper is currently under review in Motivation and Emotion.
The results of the study suggest that emotion differentiation is related to one’s coping strategy under stressful situations, which can mitigate the detrimental effect of negative valenced emotions on individual prosocial behavior, such as helping behavior and organizational citizenship behavior towards colleagues.
The current conclusions have laid fundation for the major studies of this proposal. It not only offers preliminary support to the emotional approach to study cross-culture adjustment, but also provides a plausible way of reducing turnover and counterproductive work behavior through selection and training programs.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
2: Research has progressed on the whole more than it was originally planned.
Reason
The plan for FY2020 was to conduct a literature review, adjust the model, develop the questionnaires for the three studies, and conduct the pilot test of the questionnaires.
The above tasks were progressed as planned. The PI conducted an extensive literature review on emotion differentiation and interviewed experts in academia and industry. A measurement for emotion differentiation was developed and pilot tested. A manuscript was completed based on the preliminary results and presented at a major international conference and under review in an refereed journal.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
Consistent with the initial research progress stated in the proposal, two rounds of data collection will be conducted online and offline in FY2021. A major effort will be spent on model adjustment and data analysis. The latest results will be shared with the international and domestic research community through conferences, seminars, and journal publications.
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| Causes of Carryover |
All domestic and international research trips were canceled due to the COVID-19, leaving a substantial amount of budget surplus for traveling and on-site data collection. The on-site research activities are expected to gradually reassume in FY2021, which will incur more costs on traveling and data collection.
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