The Relationship Between Multicultural Personality, Foreign Language Mastery and Self-efficacy in Germany.
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2016-08-15
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Several factors have been shown to influence an employee's job performance in intercultural situations positively, by facilitating cross-cultural adjustment, dealing with uncertainty and cultural differences. One of these factors are individual personality traits, measured by the MPQ by Van der Zee and Van Oudenhoven (2000), another important factor is foreign language mastery. The present study also assumed self-efficacy as a predictor for international group membership, as self-efficacy has been shown to be a mediator in cultural intelligence development (MacNab & Worthely, 2012), which also facilitates cross-cultural adjustment. The present research therefore has explored if the three variables (foreign language mastery, MPQ dimensions, self-efficacy) should be taken into consideration when selecting an employee for an international job, by analysing the relationships between the variables, the differences between the employee groups (international and national) in the variables and the predictive value of the variables for group membership.
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