Sequential Cross-Cultural Training a Blended and Hybrid Training for Expatriates: An Exploratory Study

Abstract

Globalization has led to exponential growth in crosscultural interaction, resulting to an incremental repository of literature on management of organizational expatriates. For an expatriate, cross-cultural training (CCT) is an important phenomenon. But a sequential CCT will be much more beneficial when it comes to cross cultural adjustment in a host country. This paper attempts to take a systematic review of literature available on CCT and focus on the need of administering a sequential CCT for increasing effectiveness of expatriate adjustment. In order to achieve the proposed objective, a systematic review of literature (from the 1950s to the present day) was carried out. The results show that there are few studies that assess the impact of the types of adjustment to organizational practices, with the cross-cultural training and language training being the most common. These practices have shown a positive effect on performance and adjustment of expatriates. But there is a lack of studies that have adequate indicators to measure the effectiveness of the sequential CCT on expat performance and adjustment.