TY - JOUR
T1 - Job resources and demands for expatriate academics Linking teacher-student relations, intercultural adjustment, and job satisfaction
AU - Jonasson, Charlotte
AU - Lauring, Jakob
AU - Selmer, Jan
AU - Trembath, Jodie-Lee
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Purpose - While there is a growing interest in expatriate academics, their specific role as teachers with daily contact to local students seems to have been largely ignored when examining their adjustment and work outcomes. Based on the job demands-resources model the authors predict that good teacher-student relations, as a supportive job resource, will have a positive effect on expatriate academics' job satisfaction. This effect, however, will be even stronger for individuals experiencing high job demands and challenges in terms of intercultural job adjustment. In other words, expatriate academics that have difficulties adjusting will benefit more from the social support that can originate from good relations to their students. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
AB - Purpose - While there is a growing interest in expatriate academics, their specific role as teachers with daily contact to local students seems to have been largely ignored when examining their adjustment and work outcomes. Based on the job demands-resources model the authors predict that good teacher-student relations, as a supportive job resource, will have a positive effect on expatriate academics' job satisfaction. This effect, however, will be even stronger for individuals experiencing high job demands and challenges in terms of intercultural job adjustment. In other words, expatriate academics that have difficulties adjusting will benefit more from the social support that can originate from good relations to their students. The paper aims to discuss these issues.
U2 - 10.1108/JGM-05-2016-0015
DO - 10.1108/JGM-05-2016-0015
M3 - Article
VL - 5
SP - 5
EP - 21
JO - Journal of Global Mobility: the home of expatriate management research
JF - Journal of Global Mobility: the home of expatriate management research
IS - 1
ER -