TY  - JOUR
T1  - Developing Cultural Sensitivity among Malaysian Registered Nurses as Self-Initiated Expatriates in Saudi Hospitals
AU - Zakaria, Norhayati AU - Noraini Mohd Yusuf, Bibi AU - Nizam Abu Talib, Asmat AU - Zakaria, Nasriah 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 20
SP  - 4859
EP  - 4864
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.4859.4864
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.4859.4864
KW  - Gender
KW  -knowledge workers
KW  -nurses
KW  -Cross-cultural Adjustment (CCA)
KW  -Individual Antecedents (IA)
KW  -Contextual Antecedents (CA)
KW  -Organizational Antecedents (OA)
AB  - This conceptual study explores the prerequisite to develop cultural sensitivity among Malaysian female Registered Nurses (RN) residing in Saudi Arabia who aim to become knowledge workers in the healthcare sectors. Key questions examined are: How do female RN knowledge workers acculturate themselves in a new environment and acquire cultural sensitivity? What adjustment processes were involved? In this study, we introduce a conceptual framework to explain this adjustment process and develop propositions to explain how female RN as knowledge workers adjust to a new environment where there is a large cultural distance between their home culture (Malaysia) and the host culture (Saudi Arabia). Using cultural adjustment theory we propose three classes of antecedents: individual, contextual and organizational.
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