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The comparative roles of home and host supervisors in the expatriate experience

✍ Scribed by George S. Benson; Marshall Pattie

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
161 KB
Volume
48
Category
Article
ISSN
0090-4848

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✦ Synopsis

This study investigates the impact of home and host supervisors on expatriate success. Using survey and archival data on 206 expatriates of a large U.S. professional services fi rm, we hypothesize that high-quality leader-member exchange (LMX) relationships with home and host supervisors have different outcomes. Relationships with host-country supervisors have greater infl uence on in-country and short-term outcomes, including adjustment and intentions to complete the assignment. Home-country supervisors, on the other hand, have a greater infl uence over expatriates' subjective fi t with their jobs and longer-term perceptions of how the overseas assignment will impact their career. Using a separate survey of home and host supervisors at the same fi rm, we found that one reason that home and host supervisors infl uence expatriates differently may be because home supervisors are more likely to see professional development as a goal for expatriate assignments.

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