Abstract
My topic aims at proposing a relation between our personality traits and our performance abroad. Nowadays, expatriates represent a real competitive advantage for multinational companies (MNCs). This research could help companies to understand how important personality is when selecting criteria for foreign assignment, in order to anticipate their employees success in their position and adaptation to the host country. On the other side, it could be the first support for youngsters who want to live and work abroad, where culture, habits and way of living and working are different from those of the parent country. I hope my research will enable them to evaluate the place where they could perform better, according to their personality. It could also give a piece of answer to current expatriates or repatriates who (have) fail(ed) in their assignment. In a sense, my topic could meet their interests because their working life is shorter than youngsters and they tend more and more to refuse risk, I mean expatriation. Moreover, the existing work on linkage of personality traits to expatriate performance is quite weak. I do not pretend that my research has a strong validity, but it provides a first regard to people interested in, and opens the door for them to other topics on the subject.
