Cultural intelligence as a predictor of job satisfaction and intent to renew contract among expatriate international school teachers in Latin America

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This paper presents a research dissertation into the importance of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) as originally defined by Earley and Ang (2003) in the intent of expatriate international school teachers working in Latin America to renew their contracts through its impact on adaptability and job satisfaction for these educators. The need to improve teacher retention, as well as identify qualified candidates is first discussed, along with the factors that have been identified in leading to better teacher retention. A discussion of Embeddedness and the specific aspects of Person-Job fit (P-J fit), Person-Host Culture fit (P-HC fit), and Person-Organization fit (P-O fit) as mediating factors is also presented, leading to the questioning of the potential predictive capacity of Cultural Intelligence (CQ) in the success of overseas teaching candidates due to the effect that CQ may have on teacher adaptation and on both job satisfaction, and subsequent intention to renew their contract. A represen

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