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This research examines the relative impact of six sets of factors on multiple indices of adjustment to new job assignments. These six sets of factors include demographic variables, indices of the “internationalness” of the job change (e.g., whether the job changer is an expatriate, repatriate, or domestic geographical relocator), job characteristics variables, types and amount of career development assistance, degree of change between successive job assignments, and types of individual coping strategies employed by job changers. Data were collected from 459 job changers from twenty-six countries. The results highlight both the commonalities among expatriates, repatriates, and domestic geographical relocators in adjusting to new job assignments as well as the differences among them.
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*Daniel C. Feldman (Ph.D., Yale) is Professor of Management and Business Partnership Foundation Fellow at the University of South Carolina College of Business Administration. He is Chair of the Careers Division of the Academy of Management and the author of several books on career development, including Managing Careers in Organizations (Scott Foreman, 1988) and Coping With Job Loss: How Individuals, Organizations, and Communities Respond to Layoffs (Macmillan, 1992, with Carrie Leana). Professor Feldman has won numerous graduate and undergraduate teaching awards, and was recently named Eli Lilly Senior Teaching Fellow at USC.
**Holly B. Tompson is a Ph.D. candidate in organizational behavior and human resource management at the University of South Carolina College of Business Administration. She received her B.A. degree from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. Her research interests are career management and feedback-seeking behavior.
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Feldman, D., Tompson, H. Expatriation, Repatriation, and Domestic Geographical Relocation: An Empirical Investigation of Adjustment to new Job Assignments. J Int Bus Stud 24, 507–529 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490243
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.jibs.8490243