Abstract
Research constantly show how work engagement is critical to company success, performance, and survival. Thus, putting the worker in the front as a subject for understanding how work engagement is experienced and fostered can be vital to organization. A context that has remained below the radar of researchers studying work engagement is expatriation. Equally, the expatriation literature has not paid sufficient attention to the phenomenon of work engagement. Through e-interviews with 27 Nordic assigned expatriates in 16 host countries, we explore the factors contributing to assigned expatriates’ work engagement. We identify two clusters of antecedents — general and specific — and decompose each cluster into contextual and job-related factors. We establish how these antecedents lead to absorption, dedication, and vigor as three components of work engagement and depict the links in a conceptual framework. Our qualitative study contributes to the expatriate literature by exploring the creation of assigned expatriates’ work engagement and the engagement literature by exploring engagement in a new occupational work setting, namely international assignments. Implications for research and practice are outlined.
Originalsprog | Engelsk |
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Titel | Academy of Management Proceedings |
Forlag | Academy of Management |
Publikationsdato | aug. 2023 |
DOI | |
Status | Udgivet - aug. 2023 |
Begivenhed | Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2023 - Boston, Boston, USA Varighed: 4 aug. 2023 → 8 aug. 2023 Konferencens nummer: 83 https://aom.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-program |
Konference
Konference | Academy of Management Annual Meeting 2023 |
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Nummer | 83 |
Lokation | Boston |
Land/Område | USA |
By | Boston |
Periode | 04/08/2023 → 08/08/2023 |
Internetadresse |
Navn | Academy of Management Proceedings |
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Nummer | 1 |
Vol/bind | 2023 |
ISSN | 2151-6561 |