Relationship between personality traits and expatriate adjustment : case study of six hotels around Kota Kinabalu / Annavilla Jesie Abraham and Annie Lingkuman

As we know, adjustment is very hard to do in our daily live. This is same to be faced by the expatriates that come to work in our country because there is different personality ever each person. Due to the globalization, Malaysia has progressively opened their market and liberalization of trade and services. Thus, many international organizations expanding their business to other country by assign professional workers to work other country. Expatriate can be defined as a person temporarily or permanently residing in a country and culture other than the person's upbringing and or legal resident (Wikipedia.com). Normally the expatriate has been assign by the organization to work to the other country within a several years. As an example in Malaysia, the expatriates that has been assign have different skills, high knowledgeable, and possess high level of position in the organizations. Moreover, this is one way to expose new knowledge and skill to the Malaysian workforce towards foreigner expertise. Thus, they have high respect towards the former at the workplace. In fact, the assigning of task to expatriate generate several problem of their routine life in adapting the new culture and environment. It also can effect to our personality on learning new culture. Any workplace in any society in the world is always having a very complex environment and force at workplace that influence social interactions and as a result on the level of performance and productivity.