1. Expatriate justice and host country nationals' work outcomes: Does host country nationals' language proficiency matter ?
- Author
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Vesa Peltokorpi, Sachiko Yamao, and Tomoki Sekiguchi
- Subjects
Procedural justice ,Turnover intention ,Expatriate ,business.industry ,Cognitive trust ,Strategy and Management ,05 social sciences ,Context (language use) ,Public relations ,Foreign subsidiary ,Economic Justice ,Job satisfaction ,Multinational corporation ,English proficiency ,0502 economics and business ,Distributive justice ,050211 marketing ,Language proficiency ,Business and International Management ,business ,050203 business & management ,Finance - Abstract
In this paper, we apply uncertainty management theory (UMT) to hypothesize that host country national (HCN) employees in foreign subsidiaries use the information of expatriates' procedural and distributive justice in their performance evaluations to reduce uncertainty about whether they trust these expatriates, which subsequently influence HCNs' job satisfaction and turnover intention. We also integrate UMT with research on language in MNCs to hypothesize that the level of HCN's English proficiency creates the context in which the aforementioned relationships are stronger when HCNs' English proficiency is high. Data collected from 501 HCNs in foreign subsidiaries in Japan provided support for these hypotheses. This study contributes to research on international management by focusing on HCNs' fairness perceptions, uncertainty, and English language proficiency in performance evaluations conducted by expatriates in foreign subsidiaries.
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- 2021