Abstract
The steady upsurge of international labor migration has raised new and important questions for career scholars: how do migrant workers adjust to their work and living conditions and what accounts for their successful adaptation? We address these issues in two time-lagged and multi-source field studies involving Filipino migrant workers in the Middle East. In Study 1, we found that migrant workers' career adaptability promotes work and general adjustment, which in turn enhances their work (i.e., job performance and retention) and psychological health (i.e., life satisfaction) outcomes. In Study 2, we found that the indirect effects of career adaptability on work and psychological health outcomes via work and general adjustment were stronger for migrant workers with high, rather than low, levels of cultural intelligence. Implications for research and practice are discussed along with the study limitations and opportunities for future research.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 103759 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Journal of Vocational Behavior |
| Volume | 138 |
| Early online date | 18 Jul 2022 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 31 Oct 2022 |
Funding
We thank Professors Cort W. Rudolph, Hannes Zacher, Andreas Hirschi, and Yehuda Baruch for their helpful comments on an earlier version of this article. This research received the Best Paper Award sponsored by the Organizational Behavior Division of the 2022 European Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Winterthur-Zürich, Switzerland.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| European Academy of Management |
Keywords
- Career adaptability
- Cultural intelligence
- General adjustment
- High-skilled workers
- International migrant workers
- Work adjustment
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Education
- Applied Psychology
- Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
- Life-span and Life-course Studies