THE INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS OF PEACEKEEPERS: WHAT DRIVES THEM TO SEEK FUTURE EXPATRIATION?

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Output type: Journal article

Author list: van Emmerik IH, Euwema MC

Publisher: Wiley

Publication year: 2009

Journal: Human Resource Management (0090-4848)

Volume number: 48

Issue number: 1

Start page: 135

End page: 151

Number of pages: 17

ISSN: 0090-4848

eISSN: 1099-050X

Languages: English-Great Britain (EN-GB)

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Open access status: bronze

Full text URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1002/hrm.20270

Abstract

From a social learning perspective, factors predicting seeking future international assignments and that are more or less under control of the human resource management department through training were examined. We tested our hypotheses on data from 745 Dutch peacekeepers. It appears that preparation, adventurism, and cultural empathy are important factors in willingness to expatriate again. Peacekeepers scoring high on self-efficacy are more willing to accept future international assignments than peacekeepers scoring low on self-efficacy. Further, the relationship between adventurism and seeking future international assignments is stronger for peacekeepers scoring high on self-efficacy than for peacekeepers scoring low on self-efficacy. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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intercultural competencies, international assignments, peacekeeping operations, self-efficacy

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