Workplace Discrimination and Overqualification Among Self-Initiated Expatriates : Is Organizational Legitimacy a Conditioning Factor?
Drawing on relative deprivation theory, in this study, we develop a model to examine whether perceived overqualification and workplace discrimination negatively influence self-initiated expatriates’ (SIE) expatriation satisfaction. We also investigate whether three dimensions of organizational legitimacy and status moderate these relationships. We test our hypotheses by analyzing a sample of 379 SIEs living and working in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and find workplace discrimination to be an influential factor negatively affecting SIEs’ overall expatriation satisfaction. However, we also find that the negative effect tends to disappear when SIEs view the sociopolitical legitimacy of their host organization as high. However, it strengthens when SIEs perceive their host organization’s status as high. In contrast, we find that SIEs’ perceived overqualification has no effect on expatriation satisfaction irrespective of the host organization’s legitimacy or status. The study contributes to extant literature by shedding light on the effects of workplace discrimination and overqualification on SIEs’ expatriation experiences and attitudes and by elucidating the important role of the sociopolitical and status aspects of the host organization’s legitimacy for SIEs’ reactions to the negative expatriation experiences
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[2023]
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Authors: | Koveshnikov, Alexei ; Lehtonen, Miikka J. |
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[S.l.] : SSRN |
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