Thriving in the Global Landscape: Flexibility and Emotional Stability as predictors of employee group membership.

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2023-07-13

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A growing number of companies are expanding their operations overseas in today’s globalized world. Consequently, multicultural effectiveness is becoming crucial in the business communication landscape. In this study, differences were examined between national and international oriented employees (N = 58) to determine whether the Multicultural Personality Questionnaire (MPQ) dimensions and Foreign language mastery allow for discrimination between the two groups. Furthermore, the relationship between the MPQ dimensions and Person-organization fit (PO-fit) was investigated. Based on self-assessments, the international oriented employees were more flexible than the national oriented employees, and the latter group was more emotionally stable than the international oriented employees. In addition, the MPQ dimensions Flexibility and Emotional stability were found to be, to some extent, predictors of differences between the employee groups, with Flexibility being the strongest predictor. For the national oriented employee group, Open-mindedness, Emotional Stability and Cultural empathy were found to be significant predictors for PO-fit. International organizations may consider investing in multicultural competence workshops for employees as they can potentially help create a more intercultural effective workplace culture.

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