Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work

Receptivity to international work is conceptualised as individuals inclination or willingness to pursue international careers. The high number of Malaysian who went to work and stayed abroad instead of returning to Malaysia to work ("Growing", 2007; "Scheme", 2005) can cause prob...

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Main Authors: Abd Talib, Lilis Surienty, Ishak, Noormala, Omar, Azizah, Abdul Ghani, Rohayu
Format: Monograph
Language:English
Published: Universiti Sains Malaysia 2011
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author Abd Talib, Lilis Surienty
Ishak, Noormala
Omar, Azizah
Abdul Ghani, Rohayu
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Ishak, Noormala
Omar, Azizah
Abdul Ghani, Rohayu
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description Receptivity to international work is conceptualised as individuals inclination or willingness to pursue international careers. The high number of Malaysian who went to work and stayed abroad instead of returning to Malaysia to work ("Growing", 2007; "Scheme", 2005) can cause problems to Malaysia's long term planning and knowledge transfer back into the country. It is pertinent to identify factors that relate early to Malaysian's developing an interest to international work and it is fundamental to question whether the early receptivity develops for those who have been abroad or anyone. This study aims to explain how people form career interests, make choices, and achieve educational and occupational ambitions. Specifically, personal agency and perceived environment in combination is said to explain the initial model of individual development of international career interest (Tharenou, 2003). It is proposed that motivational and family attachment factors would have interactive effects with personal agency and environmental factors to explain Malaysian receptivity to international work. Family attachment may actually reduce Malaysian receptivity to international work later in the employment tenure than immediately. In addition, Malaysian/Asian may conceptualise motivational and family attachment differently. Unlike most Western graduates who are educated locally, Malaysians has quite a number of its citizens being educated overseas. Therefore, the Malaysian sojourning experience would definitely be different from the Western model.
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spelling usm-263892019-10-03T03:35:51Z http://eprints.usm.my/26389/ Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work Abd Talib, Lilis Surienty Ishak, Noormala Omar, Azizah Abdul Ghani, Rohayu H1-99 Social sciences (General) Receptivity to international work is conceptualised as individuals inclination or willingness to pursue international careers. The high number of Malaysian who went to work and stayed abroad instead of returning to Malaysia to work ("Growing", 2007; "Scheme", 2005) can cause problems to Malaysia's long term planning and knowledge transfer back into the country. It is pertinent to identify factors that relate early to Malaysian's developing an interest to international work and it is fundamental to question whether the early receptivity develops for those who have been abroad or anyone. This study aims to explain how people form career interests, make choices, and achieve educational and occupational ambitions. Specifically, personal agency and perceived environment in combination is said to explain the initial model of individual development of international career interest (Tharenou, 2003). It is proposed that motivational and family attachment factors would have interactive effects with personal agency and environmental factors to explain Malaysian receptivity to international work. Family attachment may actually reduce Malaysian receptivity to international work later in the employment tenure than immediately. In addition, Malaysian/Asian may conceptualise motivational and family attachment differently. Unlike most Western graduates who are educated locally, Malaysians has quite a number of its citizens being educated overseas. Therefore, the Malaysian sojourning experience would definitely be different from the Western model. Universiti Sains Malaysia 2011 Monograph NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/26389/1/Pages%20from%20Developing_A_Model_2.pdf Abd Talib, Lilis Surienty and Ishak, Noormala and Omar, Azizah and Abdul Ghani, Rohayu (2011) Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work. Working Paper. Universiti Sains Malaysia. (Unpublished)
spellingShingle H1-99 Social sciences (General)
Abd Talib, Lilis Surienty
Ishak, Noormala
Omar, Azizah
Abdul Ghani, Rohayu
Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work
title Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work
title_full Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work
title_fullStr Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work
title_full_unstemmed Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work
title_short Developing A Model Of Receptivity To International Work
title_sort developing a model of receptivity to international work
topic H1-99 Social sciences (General)
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