The psychological contract in Chinese-African informal labor relations
| Autor: | Karsten Giese, Alena Thiel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
| Předmět: |
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Labour economics Strategy and Management Equity (finance) Psychological contract Silence Labor relations Management of Technology and Innovation Industrial relations Ethnography Economics Business and International Management Qualitative research |
| Zdroj: | The International Journal of Human Resource Management. 26:1807-1826 |
| ISSN: | 1466-4399 0958-5192 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09585192.2014.971844 |
| Popis: | This qualitative study analyzes Chinese-Ghanaian employment in trade as an example of South-South cross-cultural labor relations. Based on ethnographic fieldwork, employment practices and labor conflicts are discussed with regard to psychological contract and equity. The analysis is guided by a process model of psychological contract that has been adjusted and extended in consideration of the dimensions of foreignness and cross-cultural communication. After briefly introducing the situation in Ghana we elaborate that under conditions of foreignness, employment relations are conflict prone because of contradictory equity expectations of employers and employees. We discuss how Ghanaian employees perceiving their psychological contract as violated attempt to restore equity by means of voice, silence, retreat or destruction and often fail due to lack of mutual cultural understanding between employers and employees. We conclude that exit in contrast to expectations is a viable option for employers rather than ... |
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