The Role of Language and Career Management Self-efficacy in the Career Adjustment of Immigrant Women

Dyke, Lorraine; Rasouli, Maria; Mantler, Janet

doi:10.18848/1447-9532/cgp/v08i05/39656

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“…The existing research focuses on a number of areas relevant to immigrant women's experiences in Canada, namely employment, cultural transitioning, and the impact of immigration on physical and mental health. In addition to the commonly reported negative experiences related to discrimination (Dlamini et al 2012;Hagey et al 2001;Hojati 2009;Koert et al 2011;Rasouli et al 2008;Ronquillo 2012), deskilling and work-home imbalance (Choi et al 2014;Koert et al 2011;Martins and Reid 2007;Ronquillo 2012;Suto 2009), and problematic access to medical, mental health, and well-being services (Higginbottom et al 2015;Tang et al 2007). Some positive experiences associated with settlements were also reported.…”

Section: Immigrant Women In Canadamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lack of English proficiency and knowledge of labor laws and rights often keeps them in low skilled and dangerous jobs. Many women, in both professional and low-skilled jobs, report facing discrimination and racist attitudes and noted persistence in "feeling foreign" (Dlamini et al 2012;Hagey et al 2001;Hojati 2009;Koert et al 2011;Rasouli et al 2008;Ronquillo 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

Morgenshtern

2019

Social Sciences

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In dominant western society, we tend to interpret the experiences of immigrant women as emancipation and liberation, rather than as the complex experiences of subjects acting within several hegemonic systems. While intersectional and transnational feminism led to questioning this view through the discussion of the challenges faced by immigrant women from developing countries, their counterparts from socialist countries have been largely ignored. To address this gap, this article focuses on the employment and social reproduction experiences of 11 white, professional, heterosexual, immigrant Jewish women from the former Soviet Union (FSU) who are now living in Toronto, Canada. The data used in this article was collected as part of a study on lived experiences of Jewish immigrant couples from FSU in Toronto. This study utilized intersectional feminist analysis as a theoretical framework and combined the qualitative methodologies of Testimonio and Oral History. This data suggests that, for these women, immigration had mixed outcomes. Although the material conditions of their lives may have changed, the traditional moral associations between femininity, domesticity, and maternity remained strong. Apparent heterosexual privilege both challenged and reinforced their subordination, in that it facilitated their access to Canadian education and professional jobs and promoted their social legitimacy/status, while also resulting in greater subordination at work and home where they had more tasks to fulfill than in premigration life. These findings challenge the monolithic representation of immigrant women’s experience and enhance our ability to generate a more comprehensive theory of those experiences.

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“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

Morgenshtern

2019

Social Sciences

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“…In relation to unemployment, adaptations have taken the shape of 'job-seeking selfefficacy' (Strauser and Berven 2006), 'career decision self-efficacy' (Rasouli, Dyke, and Mantler 2008) and 'reemployment self-efficacy' (Westaby and Braithwaite 2003), among others, each focusing on a specific aspect of the move toward employment. Existing literature has shown that self-efficacy is especially related to job-search intensity (Eden and Aviram 1993;Wanberg, Kanfer, and Rotundo 1999), but also employment (Green et al 2011).…”

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Expressing and responding to self-efficacy in meetings between clients and social work professionals

Danneris

Dall

2017

Nordic Social Work Research

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Self-efficacy is a pivotal element when the long-term unemployed are to increase their chances of labour market participation, making the ways in which clients' beliefs in their capabilities are reflected in the delivery of public employment services particularly relevant. While existing research has pointed to the importance of both meetings with social services and self-efficacy for return to work, little knowledge exists on how self-efficacy is managed in these meetings. However, if social work professionals are to effectively enhance clients' selfefficacy, knowing that self-efficacy is important is not enough; knowing how to support self-efficacy becomes crucial. Based on observational data material from a qualitative study following 14 Danish vulnerable welfare recipients, we find that employability self-efficacy can be expressed by clients in strong, weak or ambiguous ways and that social work professionals responses to clients' expressions can range from supporting to transferring to challenging. Insight into the detailed ways in which self-efficacy is managed in the institutional framework of employment services, we argue, provides a starting point for reflexive consideration on how to develop employability self-efficacy in practice.

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“…He pointed out the case had lost business worth upwards of TH฿17 million (US$500,000) because of a failure to deal which English language communications from a British business. This indicated that language plays an important role in business administration (Barlas et al, 2002;Batt, 2008;Rasouli, M. et al 2008). Also, foreign language plays a role in assisting customers who face problems in communication (Cotton et al, 2007), especially in terms of communication with multi-national companies and companies outside a country.…”

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The Roles of Foreign Language in Business Administration

Thitthongkam¹,

Walsh²,

Banchapattanasakda³

2010

jmr

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This paper explores the roles of foreign language in business administration, investigates managerial perspectives and studies the problems of foreign language usage in communication to discover modes of developing employee's foreign language ability and to investigate the students' opinions concerning the roles of foreign languages in business administration in Thailand. In-depth, face-to-face qualitative interviews were employed. The results indicated that foreign languages play significant roles in import and export companies. In the managers' point of view, foreign languages are very important to their businesses, especially for communication with customers, other companies and suppliers. The problems in some companies might happen because of differences between customers. The problems also come from both senders and receivers who lack knowledge of foreign languages. The informants stated that organizations should invite professional trainers to help improve foreign language skills in vocabulary and conversation in particular.

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The Role of Language and Career Management Self-efficacy in the Career Adjustment of Immigrant Women

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“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

“My Family’s Weight on My Shoulders”: Experiences of Jewish Immigrant Women from the Former Soviet Union (FSU) in Toronto

Expressing and responding to self-efficacy in meetings between clients and social work professionals

The Roles of Foreign Language in Business Administration

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