Negotiating the Transnational Workplace: Indian Computer Professionals in Australia

Lakha, Salim

doi:10.1080/07256860500270205

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“…The participants' attitudes towards familial relationships and the role of the parent in controlling the teenagers indicate divergences in cultural understandings of family, order, and discipline. Family values, parenting, and the role of discipline within the family are culturally informed (Radhakrishnan 2008); the family is the primary source of identity formation in India (Lakha 2005). Students' understanding of the role of family and 'proper' discipline were quite authoritarian.…”

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Indian student concerns about violence: exploring student perceptions

Azmat¹,

Osborne²,

Rentschler³

2011

Aust J Social Issues

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While considerable attention has been given to the spate of attacks on Indian students in Australia in 2009 and 2010, less attention has been paid to how the students who were at the centre of the furore perceived the violence. In this paper we explore the perceptions of Indian postgraduate and undergraduate male students studying in Melbourne, Australia, based on data gathered in focus groups. Analysis revealed four broad themes in students' explanations for the attacks: race hate versus opportunism, intercultural issues, systemic ineffectiveness, and media reporting. Students' perceptions of the reasons for the attacks were divided in some areas and aligned in others. There was divergence among students about whether the attacks were race hate crime or opportunistic, and about intercultural issues. Students' perceptions were aligned on issues of systemic ineffectiveness and media reporting. In the current context of decreased international enrolments from Indian students, in which we seek to better understand them, the findings provide implications for international student policy and planning priorities.

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Indian student concerns about violence: exploring student perceptions

Azmat¹,

Osborne²,

Rentschler³

2011

Aust J Social Issues

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“…A limited number of studies have addressed the experiences of Indian IT workers in an international setting (Agrawal et al, 2012; Bassellier and Benbasat, 2004; Gupta et al, 2013; Lakha, 2005; Upadhya, 2009; van Marrewijk, 2010; Winkler et al, 2008). While some research identified ‘soft skills’ such as communication as essential for software employees, especially those in leadership positions (Agrawal and Thite 2006; Agrawal et al, 2012), the focus was on HR practices in India, rather than at the client sites.…”

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“…While some research identified ‘soft skills’ such as communication as essential for software employees, especially those in leadership positions (Agrawal and Thite 2006; Agrawal et al, 2012), the focus was on HR practices in India, rather than at the client sites. Alternatively Lakha (2005) found that communication was not such a problem in terms of accents, as it was in terms of the mode of communication for IT workers in Australia. However, Upadhya (2009) noted that accents, style of communication, and ease of social interaction were the main issues for many IT employees in an international environment.…”

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Cracking the cultural code

Shah

Barker

2017

Int'l Jnl of Cross Cultural Management

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The growth of Indian Information Technology (IT) sector has resulted in many Indian IT expatriates conducting projects at international client sites. Yet little is known about the sociocultural communication challenges these expatriates encounter. Adopting a qualitative, interpretive approach, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 47 Indian IT expatriates at client sites in Australia. The cultural validation and sociocultural competencies framework of the Excellence in Cultural Experiential Learning and Leadership Intercultural Skills Program was used to analyse expatriates' workplace interactions. Respondents reported a lack of understanding of the 'unwritten' sociocultural communication rules in Australia. Communication differences contributed to their frustrations and dissatisfaction during expatriation. Insights into Indian IT expatriates' experiences of negotiating communication competencies abroad can inform cross-cultural management scholarship and cross-cultural training. Making cultural norms explicit by embedding a cultural learning framework in cross-cultural training programs can contribute to productive, culturally diverse workplaces. The findings may provide fresh perspectives for organizations who prepare or receive expatriates, especially Indian professionals on assignment in Australia or other western countries.

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“…Type of visa and level of education are also significant points of difference within the community, and have markedly different implications in metropolitan and regional centres. 17 Many international students accept that they must suspend certain aspects of their life to achieve Australian permanent residency, and subsequent access to job opportunities in Australia and elsewhere in the global North. 18 Many such students are forced to work in low-paid and insecure positions, most notably as taxi drivers, making them as much a 'working migrant' as an 'international student'.…”

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'Life in one colour'

Mason

Jones

2014

QRE

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In April 2010, an Indian university student was robbed while leaving the campus of his university in regional Queensland. Soon afterwards, the local newspaper described how a ‘gunman’ had accosted the student and ‘forced [him] to lay [sic] face-down on the ground’. The event was not isolated in the national context; there had been a sharp rise in media reports of violence against Indian students in Australia during the preceding six months. The attack in the regional city of Toowoomba appeared to echo these other incidents, given that the victim was an Indian student and the alleged perpetrators were young white Australian males. The case called our attention to how reports of violent racism in metropolitan centres might affect perceptions of social inclusion in regional communities.

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Negotiating the Transnational Workplace: Indian Computer Professionals in Australia

Cited by 9 publications

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Indian student concerns about violence: exploring student perceptions

Indian student concerns about violence: exploring student perceptions

Cracking the cultural code

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