US managers' willingness to accept a global assignment: do expatriate benefits and assignment length make a difference?
Konopaske, Robert ; Werner, Steve
International Journal of Human Resource Management
2005
16
7
July
1159-1175
fringe benefit ; manager ; posted worker
Migration
English
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"Drawing on key tenets of expectancy theory, the present research study investigates the degree to which twelve different expatriate benefits explain managerial willingness to accept short-term and long-term global assignments. Hypotheses regarding main and interaction effects were tested on a sample of 418 globally oriented graduates of a top-ranked master's of international business studies programme at a university in the south-eastern United States. Analysing the data with ANOVA, nine out of the thirteen hypotheses were supported with all of the expatriate benefits having either main or interactive effects. A discussion and areas for future research are presented."
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