Learning goal orientation, empowering leadership and participative decisionmaking as predictors of expatriates’ postpandemic job performance

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to investigate the relationship between learning goal orientation, empowering leadership, participative decision-making and organizational citizen behavior and its effect on post-pandemic job performance within the expatriate UAE community.

Design/methodology/approach

The study proposes a theoretical model based on responses from survey data collected from 314 expatriates working in private sector organizations in Dubai, UAE.

Findings

The findings indicate that both learning goal orientation and participative decision-making have a significantly positive direct relationship with organizational citizenship. Furthermore, organizational citizenship is demonstrated to have a significant positive impact on job performance. However, the study reveals that there is no significant relationship between empowering leadership and organizational citizenship.

Originality/value

This study adds to extant expatriate management theory relating to international business by examining the effects that organizational citizenship behavior, learning goal orientation, empowering leadership and participative decision-making have on expatriates’ job performance.

Citation

AlMazrouei, H. and Zacca, R. (2024), "Learning goal orientation, empowering leadership and participative decisionmaking as predictors of expatriates’ postpandemic job performance", International Journal of Organizational Analysis, Vol. ahead-of-print No. ahead-of-print. https://doi.org/10.1108/IJOA-03-2024-4391