Social capital and career mobility: a structural theory of lower returns to education for Asian employees
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In this article, the authors examine the social conditions experienced by Asian employees in the workforce, focusing in particular on the lower returns to education that have been documented for both immigrant and U.S.-born Asians. The authors suggest that human capital translates into improved career outcomes by producing greater social capital and hypothesize that those who are more socially and culturally different from the dominant group - such as native-born and immigrant Asians - are less likely to be able to turn human capital into social capital. The theory is illustrated using data from five work teams at the computer services division of a major bank that was staffed with a sizable number of immigrant Asians. The authors found lower returns to education for Chinese and Asian Indians than for European Americans, in terms of managers' assessment of career potential, and also found that education translated into work team centrality only for European Americans. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1997
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Some observations on the career paths of women
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This article seeks to contribute to a structural theory considering the connections among individual and organizational influences on career paths. Using stratified systems theory, the author develops a model of structural and individual development that integrates individuals' capabilities and organizations' requirements and defines work in terms of time frames for completing goals. A sample of 168 women managers and military officers from the United Kingdom and U.S. took part in semistructured interviews, and the resulting data is used to describe different types of career paths and consider the consequences of different types of potential. The author concludes that institutional barriers have different natures and impacts on the full realization of women's competence at different strata of organizations. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1986
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Quality of working life and community development: some reflections on the Jamestown experience
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A historical review of the complex events that have occurred in Jamestown, New York, since the creation of the Jamestown Area Labor-Management Committee (JALMC), in 1973, stresses the connection of quality of working life (QWL) to the efforts of the JALMC, and the impact of this connection on various methods and concepts of QWL. The diffusion of QWL innovations among organizations can be hastened in connection to a broader mechanism for community modification, such as in Jamestown, where the JALMC extended the QWL trend. The community work culture that has evolved is attributed to cooperation between labor and management in supporting QWL projects, and regardless of limitations, this new type of work culture has positive implications for the future.
Publication Name: Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0021-8863
Year: 1986
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