Recent Publications and Scientific Articles } Several high-quality articles have been published by the researchers of the university. Publications at level 2 and 3 in the Finnish Publication Forum classification (Jufo) are presented.
Level 3 journals
New diagnostic tool helps to assess the adjustment of global professionals Article: Margaret A Shaffer, B Sebastian Reiche, Mihaela Dimitrova, Mila Lazarova, Shoshi Chen, Mina Westman and Olivier Wurtz: Work- and family-role adjustment of different types of global professionals: Scale development and validation, Journal of International Business Studies (2015), 1–27.
The new article by assistant professor Olivier Wurtz and his cowriters analyses the adjustment issues of global professionals and their families and is part a large research project that includes seven researchers from five countries and twelve organizations. “In this article, we develop a diagnostic tool to assess the issues that expatriates and their families are facing abroad”, says Olivier Wurtz. One of the innovations is to take also into account the family life of global employees, and to emphasize the difficulty to adjust to the redefined family roles. Wurtz tells the article provides evidence that expatriates do have lower levels of family role adjustment than domestic employees. “We also see that different types of global professionals, like company expatriates, selfinitiated expatriates, and international business travelers, experience different challenges to some extent and therefore have different needs in terms of support”, Wurtz says. According to Wurtz, this article is the first step of a large project. “We hope that other articles will come out from this collaboration.”
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