%0 Journal Article 
%A Vijande Rodríguez, Ruth
%A Ruiz Yepes, Guadalupe
%T The impact of the host-country language on international adjustment: Spanish engineers in Germany

%D 2018
%@ 1889-5425
%U http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33781
%X The main aim of this paper is to expand the knowledge on impact of
host-language proficiency as predictor of international adjustment
(work, interaction and general) and outcomes (job satisfaction, withdrawal
intentions and performance) of a global workforce group of growing
importance, the self-initiated expatriates (SIE). 870 Spanish engineers
answered an online survey (part of a PhD research). Aiming to validate
an international adjustment framework based on the model of Black et
al. (1991), with the outcomes extensions suggested by Bhaskar-Shrinivas
et al. (2005) and new factors relevant for the SIE. The analysis was done
with ATLAS.ti 7 and IBM SPSS. The paper provides empirical insights
about how host-country language proficiency characterizes the sample.
It suggests that despite intensive training, financed by companies or
expatriates directly, German is a “hard” language for Spaniards to learn
and be proficient at. It also has consequences in their career development,
as English might be the theoretical official language at international
companies, but German is still the most used at the work place.

%K International labor migration
%K Expatriate
%K Self-initiated expatriate
%K International adjustment
%K Host-country language
%K High skilled labor
%K Engineers
%K Spain
%K Germany
%K Migración laboral internacional
%K Expatriado
%K Autoexpatriado,
%K Ajuste internacional
%K Idioma del país de acogida
%K Mano de
obra cualificada
%K Ingenieros
%K España
%K Alemania
%K Lingüística
%K Linguistics
%K Sociología
%K Sociology
%~ Biblioteca Universidad de Alcala