The Chinese in Britain: working towards success?

Pang, Mary; Lau, Agnes

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“…The Chinese minority in Britain has been heralded as the most successful minority population in terms of earnings, surpassing the earnings of the majority white ethnic British population. Pang and Lau (1998), however, caution that this interpretation provides only a partial account as the Chinese minority's career choices are still socially and culturally constrained, as they are largely employed in the ethnic niche of the catering sector. They highlight the significance of individual and collective drive as well as social will to change as a precursor for increasing the choice of career alternatives for this community.…”

Section: Overview Of the Career 'Choice' Literaturementioning

confidence: 92%

“…Seeking to demystify the Chinese 'success' story in Britain, particularly as narrated in labour market studies conducted by Modood (1997) and others, Pang and Lau (1998) argue that the situation is more complex than is reflected in statistical analysis of the labour market profile of the Chinese minority in the UK. The Chinese minority in Britain has been heralded as the most successful minority population in terms of earnings, surpassing the earnings of the majority white ethnic British population.…”

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confidence: 97%

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Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Özbilgin¹,

Küskü²,

Erdoğmuş³

2005

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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This study explores the micro-individual, meso-institutional and relational and macro-structural level influences on career choices of MBA students from three countries, questioning the apparent dominance of ‘free choice’ in the context of persistent forms of structural constraints in career markets. The paper takes a critical perspective on career ‘choice’, acknowledging the contested nature of ‘choice’ and identifying career as a socially and historically situated phenomenon. The central hypothesis of the study is that ‘it is more likely for the MBA students to report micro-agentic or meso-instutional and relational rather than macro-structural conditions as key influences on their career choices’. The study draws on the findings of a cross-national survey on careers involving Britain, Israel and Turkey. Findings show that MBA students consider the impact of structural conditions as less significant on their career choices than their own human capital and capacity to make free choices. The study provides an understanding of the main cross-national similarities and differences in reporting of influences on career ‘choice’, and brings to bare interesting theoretical and methodological insights

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Section: Overview Of the Career 'Choice' Literaturementioning

confidence: 92%

Section: Overview Of the Career 'Choice' Literaturementioning

confidence: 97%

Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Özbilgin¹,

Küskü²,

Erdoğmuş³

2005

The International Journal of Human Resource Management

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“…Although several studies have analysed the effect of social networks on the socio-economic advancement of migrants (e.g. Pang and Lau, 1998), few have considered their impact on the ability of these women to settle or feel happy. Salaff and Greeve (2004) focus on middle-class, highly educated immigrants from China into Canada.…”

Section: Female Migration Social Capital and Well-being: A Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Women migrant workers in the UK: social capital, well‐being and integration

Giusta

Kambhampati

2006

J of Intl Development

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This paper addresses the role of social connections in helping women migrants to settle in the UK. We focus on micro- and macro-social capital with the former including local social networks and organisation (comprising immediate family, other immigrants, neighbours, churches) and the latter including experience with local government supporting institutions. In this context, we present results from a pilot study based on data collected amongst women immigrant workers in the care sector in the UK. A majority of respondents in our sample come from Africa and Asia and 62 per cent arrived without family. Our results indicate that while education decreases the extent to which women in our sample feel settled, contact with the local community as well as living within an immigrant community helped the women to feel settled. Finally, their experience with services like housing and immigration proved very significant. Copyright Â© 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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“…We controlled age for its effect on the possibility of being excluded in the organization. In anticipation of "glass ceilings" [22] [23], and gender was also controlled for so as to minimize confounding influences on estimates of the employees' efforts for not being excluded. Gender was represented by a dummy, with male coded as "0" and female coded as "1".…”

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Employee Behaviors, Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi, and Workplace Exclusion

Liu

Wang

2011

2011 International Conference on Management and Service Science

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New-entry employees expect to be accepted rather than to be excluded after the organizational entry. The paper attempts to propose a model to examine the process through which employees can be exempt from exclusion in the organization as a "political arena". We argue that an employee, in order not to be excluded, would like to perform high-quality in-role and extra-role behaviors and also develop good guanxi with his or her supervisor. The study collects matched data including 343 employees, 662 colleagues, and 343 direct supervisors to test hypotheses. Statistical analyses show that: employee job performance, organizational citizenship behavior, and supervisor-subordinate guanxi are negatively related to workplace exclusion. Implications and limitations are offered. Keywords-workplace exclusion; task peroformance; organizational citizenship behavior; supervisor-subordinate guanxiI.

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The Chinese in Britain: working towards success?

Cited by 19 publications

References 3 publications

Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Explaining influences on career ‘choice’: the case of MBA students in comparative perspective

Women migrant workers in the UK: social capital, well‐being and integration

Employee Behaviors, Supervisor-Subordinate Guanxi, and Workplace Exclusion

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