Premium
What makes mindful self‐initiated expatriates bounce back, improvise and perform: Empirical evidence from the emerging markets
Author(s) -
Singh Sanjay Kumar,
Vrontis Demetris,
Christofi Michael
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
european management review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.784
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1740-4762
pISSN - 1740-4754
DOI - 10.1111/emre.12456
Subject(s) - improvisation , mindfulness , psychology , leverage (statistics) , supervisor , task (project management) , resilience (materials science) , empirical research , social psychology , structural equation modeling , field (mathematics) , upper echelons , psychological resilience , applied psychology , cognitive psychology , management , computer science , psychotherapist , epistemology , artificial intelligence , economics , mathematics , art , philosophy , physics , machine learning , pure mathematics , visual arts , thermodynamics , team composition
Drawing upon the self‐determination theory (SDT), this study examines what makes individual employees leverage improvisational capability to act extemporaneously to find relevant solutions for enhanced task performance. Using supervisor‐subordinate dyadic self‐initiated expatriates (SIEs) samples, we used structural equation modeling (SEM) to examine this study's hypotheses. We found that mindfulness influences resilience and improvisation in the workplace. Furthermore, we found improvisation to mediate the influence of resilience on task performance. We discussed in detail the essential findings and their contributions to advance theory and practice in the field.