Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers Power and Control in a Hong Kong Megastore
- List Price: $27.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Publish date: 07/01/1999
Japanese Bosses, Chinese Workers examines the ways of organizing work, rank, compensation, and promotion inside the company to reveal the socio-economic base of managerial control. By exploring how the categorical difference between Japanese expatriates and Hong Kong Chinese staff is produced, the hidden aspect of the control by a monopoly of identity formation is made visible.
The book also demonstrates how Japanese and Chinese employees adopt different orientations towards the company's authority and towards one another. It is the structure of these different strategies, orientations, and social relations between people that gives rise to the pattern of social life within the company.
