TY - JOUR
T1 - Expanding opportunities by opening your mind
T2 - multicultural engagement predicts job market success through longitudinal increases in integrative complexity
AU - Maddux, William W.
AU - Bivolaru, Eliza
AU - Hafenbrack, Andrew C.
AU - Tadmor, Carmit T.
AU - Galinsky, Adam D.
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: research funded by a Research and Development grant from INSEAD to William Maddux (we thank the INSEAD alumni fund for their support) as well as grants to Carmit Tadmor from the European Union Marie Curie International Reintegration Program (#239160) and by the Henry Crown Institute of Business Research in Israel.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/7
Y1 - 2014/7
N2 - A longitudinal study found that the psychological approach individuals take when immersed in a general multicultural environment can predict subsequent career success. Using a culturally diverse sample, we found that "multicultural engagement"-the extent to which students adapted to and learned about new cultures-during a highly international 10-month master of business administration (MBA) program predicted the number of job offers students received after the program, even when controlling for important personality/demographic variables. Furthermore, multicultural engagement predicted an increase in integrative complexity over the course of the 10-month program, and this increase in integrative complexity mediated the effect of multicultural engagement on job market success. This study demonstrates that even when individuals are exposed to the same multicultural environment, it is their psychological approach and engagement with different cultures that determines growth in integrative complexity and tangible increases in professional opportunities.
AB - A longitudinal study found that the psychological approach individuals take when immersed in a general multicultural environment can predict subsequent career success. Using a culturally diverse sample, we found that "multicultural engagement"-the extent to which students adapted to and learned about new cultures-during a highly international 10-month master of business administration (MBA) program predicted the number of job offers students received after the program, even when controlling for important personality/demographic variables. Furthermore, multicultural engagement predicted an increase in integrative complexity over the course of the 10-month program, and this increase in integrative complexity mediated the effect of multicultural engagement on job market success. This study demonstrates that even when individuals are exposed to the same multicultural environment, it is their psychological approach and engagement with different cultures that determines growth in integrative complexity and tangible increases in professional opportunities.
KW - Culture
KW - Integrative complexity
KW - Multicultural engagement
KW - Multicultural experience
KW - Professional achievement
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U2 - 10.1177/1948550613515005
DO - 10.1177/1948550613515005
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84901756000
SN - 1948-5506
VL - 5
SP - 608
EP - 615
JO - Social Psychological and Personality Science
JF - Social Psychological and Personality Science
IS - 5
ER -