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The Inflow of Southeast Asian Healthcare Worker Candidates in Japan:Japanese Reactions to the Possibility of Cultural and Ethnic Diversity
Get PDFThis paper examines the social and cultural meanings of the incorporation of Southeast Asian healthcare migrant workers in Japan, focusing in particular on Japanese attitudes and perspectives. I argue that several issues and concerns are related to the way the Japanese see Japan as a homogeneous society, and that these issues and concerns intertwine with Japan's historical experience of the inflow of non-Japanese migrants. The arrival of Southeast Asian healthcare workers has been met with concern in Japanese society, but because of its rapidly aging and shrinking population, Japan's healthcare industry needs to internationalize. The article is based on research data that includes information on events, debates and arguments in official and unofficial documents, newspaper articles and transcripts of interviews in the press in both Japanese and English. It aims to provide a better understanding of how Japan is tapping into the international labour market to bolster its health industry. The situation of Southeast Asian healthcare migrant workers in Japan is also examined in its historical, social and cultural contexts
Bicultural Resourcefulness in Global Management: From Education to Corporate Collaboration
Get PDFBiculturals are increasingly viewed as a resource in global business. They are effective in multicultural teams, they are great boundary spanners between corporate headquarters and their subsidiaries, and their abilities are acknowl-edged in cross-cultural leadership. This article aims to generate typologies that will help global businesses gain a clearer understanding of the competences that biculturals can offer them. This study explores biculturalism in two set-tings: business education and global corporations. What unique skills and abilities allow biculturals to take advantage of knowledge from two or more cultures? Do they perceive their skills as resources? And how does corporate experience harness bicultural competences? Surprisingly, this study showed that the bicultural students were not aware of their strengths and advantages. In contrast, the corporate study provided ample evidence of how bicultural abilities were acknowledged and leveraged in international business, once bilculturals were established in the workplace. This article presents a theoreti-cal matrix of bicultural competences, based on the concepts of frame switch-ing and meta-cognition. The matrix categories are: 1) bicultural dissonance, 2) bicultural thinking, 3) bicultural action and 4) bicultural competence
Kollegialt følelsesarbejde på plejehjem og i daginstitutioner
Get PDFArtiklen diskuterer kollegialt følelsesarbejde på baggrund af et studie af omsorgsarbejde i daginstitutioner for småbørn og på plejehjem. Baseret på 27 kvalitative interview med frontlinjemedarbejdere, belyser artiklen følelsesarbejdets kollektive karakter. Analysen er centreret omkring to spørgsmål: 1) På hvilken måde udgør kollegialt følelsesarbejde en ressource i omsorgsarbejdet? 2) Hvilken rolle spiller følelsesudtryk i distinktionsprocesser imellem kolleger? Artiklen viser, at de følelser, kolleger udtrykker, og de stemninger kolleger skaber, kan være en ressource i mestringen af arbejdet, og det foreslås, at denne ressource kan begrebsliggøres som en kollektiv emotionel kapital, som præger et medarbejderteam. Kollegialt følelsesarbejde spiller en rolle i distinktionsprocesser, og artiklen viser her, hvordan kolleger forholder sig til hinandens følelsesarbejde og til tider griber regulerende ind over for andres (mangelfulde) følelseshåndtering. Bestemte følelsesudtryk fremstår således implicit som forbundet med faglig status. Samspillet imellem arbejdsmiljøproblemer og den kollektive emotionelle kapital diskuteres, og der gives eksempler på, at medarbejdere oplever, at kollegiale diskussioner af arbejdsrelaterede frustrationer kan være nedbrydende for den kollektive emotionelle kapital. Det tydeliggør vigtigheden af at skabe et legitimt kollektivt rum for diskussioner af arbejdsrelaterede frustrationer, så de ikke fortrænges til individuelle og private fora af hensyn til den kollektive emotionelle kapital.
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Merete Monrad: Collegial Emotional Labour in Nursing Homes and Day Care Institutions
This article examines collegial emotional labour through a study of care work in day care institutions for children aged 0-6 years and in nursing homes. Based on 27 qualitative interviews with frontline workers, the article elucidates the collective nature of emotional labour in care work. The analysis is centered on two questions. First, in what way is collegial emotional labour a resource in care work, and second, what role do expressed emotions play in distinctions between colleagues? The article shows that colleagues’ emotions can be an important resource in coping with work, and suggests that this resource can be understood as collective emotional capital in the work team. Collegial emotional labour is related to processes of distinction, and the article analyzes how colleagues relate to each other’s emotional labour and how emotional expressions are implicitly related to professional status. The interplay between the working environment and collective emotional capital is discussed. Workers may experience that collegial discussions of work-related frustrations diminish collective emotional capital. The article raises the concern that work-related frustrations are displaced to individual and private conversations in order to preserve the collective emotional capital.
Keywords: care, emotional labour, colleagues, work environment, emotional capital
Martin Heidegger, Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking, Translated by Andrew J. Mitchell (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), ISBN: 978-0-253-00231-0
Get PDFRituals of Conduct and Counter-Conduct
Get PDFThis essay provides an account of the role of ritual in governmentality (or the conducting of conduct) through an analysis of key texts during the period roughly from 1973 through 1981. I claim that ritual plays an essential role in Foucault’s analysis of juridical forms and sovereign power as well as conduct and counter-conduct understood as features of governmentality and political rationality
The itinerary approach of a business anthropologist: between mobility, diversity and networks
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From Counter-Conduct to Critical Attitude: Michel Foucault and the Art of Not Being Governed Quite So Much
Get PDFIn this article I reconstruct the philosophical conditions for the emergence of the notion of counter-conduct within the framework of Michel Foucault’s study of governmentality, and I explore the reasons for its disappearance after 1978. In particular, I argue that the concept of conduct becomes crucial for Foucault in order to redefine governmental power relations as specific ways to conduct the conduct of individuals: it is initially within this context that, in Security, Territory, Population, he rethinks the problem of resistance in terms of counter-conduct. However, a few months later, in What is Critique?, Foucault (implicitly) replaces the notion of counter-conduct with that of critical attitude, defined as the particular form that counter-conduct takes in modern times. This notion allows him to highlight the role played by the will (to be or not to be governed like that) in resistance to governmental strategies. But since the notion of counter-conduct is conceptually wider than that of critical attitude, I suggest in conclusion that it could be worth reactivating it as a “historical category which, in various forms and with diverse objectives, runs through the whole of Western history.
