Pilot Study on Expatriates’ Adjustment through Social Media Platforms using Black’s Model

Abstract:

Movement of significant number of expatriates from country to country have been increased with globalization. Every year expatriates face various challenges related to their individual characteristics, jobs and organizations where foreign assignment is major goal. The advent of hand-held electronic devices has introduced the concept of virtual community. It has become very easy for expatriates to socialize and meet with the other people of same culture and community in the host country with help of different social media. In past, there are lot of researches has been done on expatriates’ adjustment process. Researchers have also paid attention on organizational support and role of social networking in speeding up expatriates’ adjustment but as of now, no work has been done on linking the role of organizations in expatriates’ adjustment process through social media platforms. This paper utilizes the approach of quantitative analysis based on Black’s model of expatriates’ adjustment to find out different ways in which organizations can play their role in expatriates’ adjustment with the help of social media platforms.