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dc.contributor.authorGiese, Karstenen
dc.contributor.authorThiel, Alenaen
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-10-
dc.date.accessioned2012-05-18T09:58:25Z-
dc.date.available2012-05-18T09:58:25Z-
dc.date.issued2012-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10419/57935-
dc.description.abstractIn this article Chinese-Ghanaian employment relations are analyzed using the concepts of foreignness, the psychological contract, equity, and cross-cultural communication. Based on a qualitative study conducted in Accra, Ghana, we discuss the labor market in general and introduce the conditions under which Chinese sojourners operate their family trade businesses in the city. After discussing the phenomenon of Ghanaian employment within Chinese trade companies from a theoretical perspective, we explain how Chinese employers' and Ghanaian employees' culturally based perceptions of employment relations are contradictory and prone to conflict. We then show how, under the condition of the employers' foreignness, Ghanaian employees perceive their psychological contracts as being violated and Chinese employers regard the equity of exchange relations as distorted. We discuss how Ghanaian employees cope with this situation by means of voice, silence, retreat or destruction, while Chinese employers, who lack both sufficient language skills and effective sanctions, choose to endure perceived distortions of equity and in some cases ultimately terminate employment relations when inadequate cross-cultural communication results in a failure to mediate conflicts.en
dc.language.isoengen
dc.publisher|aGerman Institute of Global and Area Studies (GIGA) |cHamburgen
dc.relation.ispartofseries|aGIGA Working Papers |x194en
dc.subject.jelJ15en
dc.subject.jelJ24en
dc.subject.jelJ81en
dc.subject.jelZ1en
dc.subject.ddc330en
dc.subject.keywordlabor relationsen
dc.subject.keywordequityen
dc.subject.keywordpsychological contracten
dc.subject.keywordtradeen
dc.subject.keywordChinaen
dc.subject.keywordGhanaen
dc.subject.stwChinesenen
dc.subject.stwAuslandsaufenthalten
dc.subject.stwArbeitsbeziehungenen
dc.subject.stwArbeitsrechten
dc.subject.stwArbeitnehmerschutzen
dc.subject.stwGhanaen
dc.titleWhen Voicelessness Meets Speechlessness – Struggling for Equity in Chinese-Ghanaian Employment Relations-
dc.typeWorking Paperen
dc.identifier.ppn715519891en
dc.rightshttp://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungenen
dc.identifier.repecRePEc:zbw:gigawp:194-

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