Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia

Being an academic entity, universities offer a distinct environment with different missions and work tasks as compared to business organizations. Thus far only a minimal amount of investigation has embarked on self-initiated expatriates in the academic field. Therefore, the main aim of the research...

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Main Authors:	Haslina Halim, Hassan Abu Bakar, Bahtiar Mohamad
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018
Online Access:	http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12239/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12239/ http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12239/1/25339-78629-1-PB.pdf

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spelling	ukm-122392018-10-26T22:45:50Z http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12239/ Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia Haslina Halim, Hassan Abu Bakar, Bahtiar Mohamad, Being an academic entity, universities offer a distinct environment with different missions and work tasks as compared to business organizations. Thus far only a minimal amount of investigation has embarked on self-initiated expatriates in the academic field. Therefore, the main aim of the research is to investigate the adjustment of this group of expatriates by focusing on the relationships between multicultural personality skills and the academic expatriates’ personal, professional and social adjustment by utilizing the multicultural personality scale (MPQ). The MPQ consists of five dimensions - cultural empathy, open-mindedness, social initiative, emotional stability and flexibility. Besides MPQ constructs, the study also examines the relationship between language ability and the expatriates’ personal, social and professional adjustment. One-hundred and one questionnaires were distributed to self-initiated academic expatriates (N=101) attached to various academic departments in UUM. Results revealed that open-mindedness and flexibility are significantly related to the expatriates’ personal adjustment, while cultural empathy, emotional stability and flexibility are significantly related to social adjustment. Flexibility is the only dimension of MPQ that predicts academic expatriates’ professional adjustment. Language skills on the other hand, do not show any significant relationship with all three types of adjustments. Apart from the results, the discussions and limitations of the study are also presented in the paper. Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://journalarticle.ukm.my/12239/1/25339-78629-1-PB.pdf Haslina Halim, and Hassan Abu Bakar, and Bahtiar Mohamad, (2018) Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia. Jurnal Komunikasi ; Malaysian Journal of Communication, 34 (2). pp. 1-17. ISSN 0128-1496 http://ejournal.ukm.my/mjc/issue/view/1085
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description	Being an academic entity, universities offer a distinct environment with different missions and work tasks as compared to business organizations. Thus far only a minimal amount of investigation has embarked on self-initiated expatriates in the academic field. Therefore, the main aim of the research is to investigate the adjustment of this group of expatriates by focusing on the relationships between multicultural personality skills and the academic expatriates’ personal, professional and social adjustment by utilizing the multicultural personality scale (MPQ). The MPQ consists of five dimensions - cultural empathy, open-mindedness, social initiative, emotional stability and flexibility. Besides MPQ constructs, the study also examines the relationship between language ability and the expatriates’ personal, social and professional adjustment. One-hundred and one questionnaires were distributed to self-initiated academic expatriates (N=101) attached to various academic departments in UUM. Results revealed that open-mindedness and flexibility are significantly related to the expatriates’ personal adjustment, while cultural empathy, emotional stability and flexibility are significantly related to social adjustment. Flexibility is the only dimension of MPQ that predicts academic expatriates’ professional adjustment. Language skills on the other hand, do not show any significant relationship with all three types of adjustments. Apart from the results, the discussions and limitations of the study are also presented in the paper.
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author_facet	Haslina Halim, Hassan Abu Bakar, Bahtiar Mohamad,
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title	Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia
title_short	Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia
title_full	Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia
title_fullStr	Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed	Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia
title_sort	measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in malaysia
publisher	Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
publishDate	2018
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Measuring multicultural effectiveness among self-initiated academic expatriates in Malaysia

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