Are culturally intelligent professionals more committed to organizations? Examining Chinese expatriation in Belt & R
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Are culturally intelligent professionals more committed to organizations? Examining Chinese expatriation in Belt & Road Countries Ying Zhang 1,2 & Lei Huang 1 & Yunlong Duan 1
& Yuran
Li 1
Accepted: 10 October 2020/ # Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The main purpose of this study is to explore the relationships between cultural intelligence (CQ) and organizational commitment in Belt & Road area, with critical consideration given to the moderating effect of cultural distance (CD) on the commensurate relationships. We examined a dataset of 390 international professionals on Chinese cross-border projects in Belt & Road countries. Findings indicate that cognitive CQ has an inverted U-shaped relationship with organizational commitment, while motivational CQ has a positive linear relationship with organizational commitment, and cultural distance moderates the relationships between CQ and commitment such that negative or positive moderation occur contingent on whether the optimal CQ level is reached. Our results suggest the need for identifying an inflection point of individuals’ CQ level to differentiate between the increasing and decreasing trend of organizational commitment in view of the effect of cultural distance. This may help enabling multinationals to leverage expatriates with different levels of CQ to stay committed in multi-cultural environments along the Belt & Road countries. Keywords Cultural intelligence . Cultural distance . Organizational commitment . Belt &
Road
* Yunlong Duan [email protected] Ying Zhang [email protected] Lei Huang [email protected] Yuran Li [email protected] Extended author information available on the last page of the article
Y. Zhang et al.
Despite of the recent rise of anti-globalist movements across the world, the “global village” has not been wrecked by nationalistic policies, and globalization has not been largely interrupted. This has been evidenced by the continuing increase in the flow of products, capital, employees, and information along the Belt & Road countries. World Investment Report 2019 recorded a higher FDI inflows in developing Asia and Africa in 2018 with a registered rise of 4% to $512 billion, accompanying with positive growth in all sub-regions. Asia under the Belt & Road Initiative represents the fastest growing economic region worldwide both in terms of nominal gross domestic product and purchasing power parity, and bilateral cooperation is expected to continue along the routes, particularly in infrastructure (WIR, 2019). For instance, investment projects worth over $64 billion were agreed in the second Belt & Road Forum for International Cooperation held in China in 2019. The Belt & Road Initiative has stimulated expeditious growth in workforce mobility with 42% of multinationals increased their expatriation staffing transfers in 2017–2018 according to the latest 2019 survey of Mercer. This trend of global professional mobility is unlikely to wane in the envisioned future. However, transition and retention o
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