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Ongoing Challenges Faced by Expatriate Managers: An Exploratory Study of Expatriate Managers in Nigeria and Canada

2009· other· en· W7023354961 on OpenAlex

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no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueNottingham ePrints (University of Nottingham) · 2009
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicComputational Physics and Python Applications
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsExpatriateWorkforceInterviewExploratory researchDiversity (politics)Qualitative researchWorkforce diversity
DOInot available

Abstract

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This qualitative study will seek to uncover the concept of workforce diversity, to discover the effects of workforce diversity on an organization, to find out how the managers manage diverse workforces, to highlight the challenges faced by expat managers in managing a diverse workforce, and to identify the possible solutions to these challenges. Additionally, the study will compare the results of these aims between the workforces of Canada and Nigeria. Four research questions were developed to help guide the research, and are: (1) What is workforce diversity? (2) How does a diverse workforce impact an organization? (3) How do the managers manage a diverse workforce? (4) What are the challenges experienced by expat managers in managing a diverse workforce? The research questions will be addressed through the analysis of data that will be collected by interviewing 8 expat managers (three in Canada and five in Nigeria). Analysis of the data will include both phenomenology (to determine the themes and phenomena inherent to the managers lived experiences) and a comparative case study (to compare the results between the two countries). Chapter 1 provided an introduction and overview of the study. Chapter 2 discusses information regarding both Nigeria and Canada. Chapter 3 contains the literature review for this study. Chapter 4 describes in greater detail the research methodology to be used. Chapter 5 presents the data and the analysis of the data and contains the conclusions of the research, a discussion of the results, and a summary.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.765
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.218
Teacher spread0.202 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it