By Daphnee Lee
This e-book explores the non-public reports of execs who're part of the post-colonial and late-industrializing fact within the international price chain in Singapore. taking a look at chinese language Singaporean staff at a French multi-national company, the writer explores the evolving social buildings of ‘Chineseness’. Sociologist Manuel Castells as soon as hailed Singapore as ‘the in basic terms actual Leninist venture that has survived’, and Leerevisits the Singapore ‘social laboratory’, addressing contemporary dialectics that transpire in the international political financial system. presently, specialist actors have to tackle the calls for of twin hegemony based on China’s upward thrust within the Western-dominated capitalist political economic system. Underlying those structures are enduring tendencies that mediate interpretations of professionalism. the writer places to check the opportunity of switch, surveying a wide cohort of lecturers as makers of destiny pros. The query is, does switch take place within the area of perform or the habitus, whether it is attainable within the first position?
The ebook may be of curiosity to students and scholars with an curiosity in Sociology, identification and Ethnicity, company administration, Globalisation, Organizational Sociology and Sociology of schooling.
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Along with the solicited responses, participants volunteered accounts of their childhood schooling experiences to illustrate how their current perceptions were shaped while young and at school. The relationship between childhood socialization and professional dispositions was validated with these unsolicited accounts of childhood schooling experiences. Through the back-and-forth comparison of these accounts, distinct typologies emerged with regard to the interaction between family and education as socializing institutions.
A tangible price tag possesses the strongest leverage to determine the value of a gift exchange. Exchange value in remuneration thus provides a concrete MANAGING CHINESENESS AS IDENTITY GRAFTING 23 indication of the value of human resources, and the global pecking order within the dual hegemonic framework. European and North American top managers command the highest salaries, followed by top managers from China, and then Singapore. The same order applies to leave entitlement. These discriminatory arrangements brought forth unhappiness among the Singaporean top managers, but remained uncontested.
Effective identity grafting of one’s expression of Chineseness, thus, will not be as simple as readjusting one’s language and cultural proficiencies. According to the Vice-President, ‘it’s totally natural’ for top managers of the MNC corporate headquarters in France to be periodically expatriated to a variety of regional offices. The lack of cultural fit is subordinate to the importance of international mobility. However, the reverse flow may not be as accessible for Chinese Singaporean top managers.
