Results: Western Expatriate Managers

Abstract

This chapter presents the results of tests of 9 research hypotheses regarding western expatriate managers. First, this chapter provides the descriptive statistics and the results of the correlation analysis of all metric variables (including demographic characteristics) in this study.

Appendix G: Correlation Matrix (Western Expatriates)

Means, standard deviations and inter-correlations for all research variables

	Mean	SD	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1. Gender	1.13	0.340	–
2. Age	2.31	0.646	−0.077	–
3. Tenure	36.50	26.337	−0.012	0.629**	–
4. Previous IA	0.50	0.765	0.162	0.121	0.048	–
5. Job position	2.83	0.691	0.028	−0.60**	−0.199*	−0.261*	–
6. AC-CE	7.26	5.969	−0.349**	−0.125	−0.212*	−0.485**	0.163	0.77
7. AE-RO	10.89	5.861	−0.097	−0.187*	−0.433**	−0.230*	0.154	0.367**	0.74
8. Expatriate adaptation	4.02	0.741	0.153	0.156	0.590**	0.263**	−0.135*	−0.430**	−0.344**	0.90
9. Managerial tacit knowledge	1.07	0.13	−0.150	−0.111	−0.226**	−0.225**	0.266**	0.204**	0.206**	−0.115*	0.88
10. Adaptive flexibility	16.025	2.5819	0.134	0.193	0.308**	0.496**	−0.078	−0.554**	−0.448**	0.387**	−0.159*	0.79

1. n = 121; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01
2. Coefficient alpha reliabilities are reported in parentheses in the correlation diagonals
3. Gender 1 = male; 2 = female