Riki Takeuchi
Associate Professor, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology,
China.
Cuili Qian
Assistant Professor, City University of Hong Kong, China.
Jeffrey P. Shay
Washington and Lee University, USA.The Impact of Expatriate Leadership Behavior on
Host Country National Job Satisfaction:
Cross-Level Moderating Effects of Decision
Autonomy and Parent Company Commitment
While typical expatriate managers are sent to foreign subsidiary as
top managers, there is a paucity of literature that considers how
expatriate managers’ leadership, such as planning and consulting,
behaviors affect host country nationals’ (HCNs) attitudes, such as their
job satisfaction. By integrating expatriation experience literature with
MNC control and leadership theories, we advance a cross-level
theorizing on the expatriate leadership behaviors. We first examine the
impact of two types of leader behaviors utilized by the expatriate
(general) managers on HCN managers’ job attitude (overall job
satisfaction). We also investigate the moderating effects of decision
autonomy and parent company commitment on the aforementioned
relationships, using survey data collected from expatriate general
managers and HCN functional managers working in multinational
hotels.