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    Expatriates Adjustment in Creative Culture
    (UMT.Lahore, 2018) Shazina Fatima
    With the globalization of businesses which pose challenges for the businesses to expand globally. In the realm of globalization, organizations have no choice but to compete in the emerging marketplace. This demand organization to send their employees on the international assignments as expatriates. Meanwhile, self-initiated expatriates also increase their travel and movement at the global level which are defined as self-initiated expatriates. In this regard, expatriates face challenges to penetrate in the new cultural settings which are different from their home country culture. This study aims to explore the challenges and problems that expatriates face in the creative culture on creativity front when they move from less creative culture, Asian culture, to the high creative culture. This study also aims to highlight the strategies that expatriates adopt to break their rigid mental schemas intentionally. Narrative research design is being used whereby 7 participants are selected for the interview purpose. Purposive sampling technique is used for this study and two phase coding cycle is used to conduct analysis. The results of the study highlights three potential challenges that expatriates confront in the creative cultural settings such as lack of self-confidence, inflexible mental orientation and poor information handling. To overcome these challenges, expatriates adopt some strategies including equanimity, amicability and cognitive adaptability that help them to adjust in the creative culture by minimizing the pain of cross-cultural adjustment. Significance of this study is to add value towards the literature, robustness of the theory and to extend the practical work by providing a framework to the organizations so that they can reduce the rate of repatriation by focusing on these influential challenges and strategies during their adjustment process in the creative culture.