The Impact of Age and Experience on Expatriate Outcomes

There is a strong need for identifying variables that facilitate expatriate success, both to inform expatriate selection and to tailor training and management practices to individual needs (Albrecht et al. 2018b; Deller 2007). In practice, demographic and background characteristics, such as employee age, job experience, and organizational tenure, are frequently used by organizational decision-makers as easily obtainable proxies for other constructs, such as job knowledge, organizational socialization, adaptability, trainability, and physical skills (Sturman 2003). As such, these variables have a strong influence on organizational decisions, including selection, promotion, and training (Perry/Finkelstein 1999; Tesluk/Jacobs 1998), particularly in expatriate settings where formal