Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness: How Personality, Calling, and Learned Competencies Influence the Expatriate Transitions of Pentecostal ... Pentecostal and Charismatic Studies, 20)

In Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness , John Farquhar Plake examines how Pentecostal missionaries adjust to foreign cultural environments and become proficient at their work abroad. Connecting the disciplines of psychology, human resource management, and missiology, Plake provides unique insights into the predictors of expatriate effectiveness through the experience of 949 missionaries working in 127 nations. Responding to the question, "Are missionaries born, called, or made?", Plake provides evidence that cross-cultural training is a critical component of missionary formation. Here missionaries, educators, mission agency leaders, I-O psychologists, and cross-cultural scholars will find actionable data and a hopeful, nuanced picture of reality, grounded in the lived experiences of Pentecostal missionaries worldwide. Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness: How Personality, Calling, and Learned Competencies Influence the Expatriate Transitions of Pentecostal Missionaries Copyright Dedication Contents Acknowledgements List of Figures and Tables List of Abbreviations Introduction Background Purpose Statement Problem Statement Research Questions Significance Limitations and Delimitations Definitions 1: Expatriate Effectiveness for Missionaries The Measurement Challenge The Prediction Challenge Scope of the Study Components of the Study Conclusion 2: Social Scientific Foundations Expatriate Effectiveness Stable Dispositions Dynamic Competencies Calling Control Variables Conclusion 3: Biblical and Missiological Foundations Stable Dispositions in the New Testament Dynamic Competencies in the New Testament Calling in the New Testament Impact of Calling on Missionaries Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness in the New Testament Conclusion 4: A Leadership Perspective on Missionary Performance Qualitative Methodology Qualitative Results Scale Development Scale Refinement Methodology Scale Refinement Results Leadership Survey Conclusion 5: Developing the Missionary Survey Research Design Pilot Survey Methods Missionary Survey Methods Conclusion 6: The Results of the Missionary Survey The Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness Pilot Survey Introduction to the Missionary Survey Results Missing Data Criterion Variables Stable Dispositions Dynamic Competencies Calling Control Variables Conclusion 7: A Structural Model of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness Hypotheses A Structural Model of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness Results of Hypothesis Testing Conclusion 8: A Theory of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness Stable Dispositions Dynamic Competencies Calling Control Variables Missionaries as Bridges for the Gospel Limitations Implications for Future Research Conclusion Appendices A: Hypothesized Model of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness B: Missionary Job Performance Development Scale C: A Proposed Model of Expatriate Effectiveness D: Regional Director Consent to Survey E: Regional Director Interview Guide F: Frequency of Missionary Job Performance Codes G: Missionary Performance Scale Items from the Pilot and Main Surveys H: Survey Sub-Scales in the Missionary Survey I: Guidelines for Interpreting Model Fit Indices J: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Missionary Job Performance K: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness L: Principal components analysis pattern matrix for the big five personality indicators M: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Stable Dispositions N: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Dynamic Competencies O: Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Calling P: Initial Structural Equation Model of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness Q: Final Structural Model Diagram of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness R: Final Structural Equation Model of Missionary Expatriate Effectiveness References Index of Modern Authors Subject Index In 'Missionary expatriate effectiveness', John Farquhar Plake examines how Pentecostal missionaries adjust to foreign cultural environments and become proficient at their work abroad. Connecting the disciplines of psychology, human resource management, and missiology, Plake provides unique insights into the predictors of expatriate effectiveness through the experience of 949 missionaries working in 127 nations. 0Responding to the question,?Are missionaries born, called, or made??, Plake provides evidence that cross-cultural training is a critical component of missionary formation. Here missionaries, educators, mission agency leaders, I-O psychologists, and cross-cultural scholars will find actionable data and a hopeful, nuanced picture of reality, grounded in the lived experiences of Pentecostal missionaries worldwide