Elgar Companion to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific

Edited by Eddy S. Ng, Smith Professor in Equity and Inclusion in Business, Smith School of Business, Queen’s University, Canada, Jonathan E. Ramsay, Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Social and Health Sciences, K. Thirumaran, Associate Professor of Business and Jacob Wood, Associate Professor of Business and Associate Dean of Research, James Cook University, Singapore

Contents:

PART I THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK AND WORKERS
Introduction to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific: An
Organizational Psychology Approach 2
Eddy S. Ng, Jonathan E. Ramsay, Jacob Wood and K. Thirumaran
1 The post-pandemic workplace: issues and insights for future
research and action 19
Pengji Wang, Shaoyuan Chen, Angeline Lim Cuifang and Sophia
Zhao Xiuxi
2 Telework and telecommuting as new work forms 47
Yvette Blount and Lucy Taksa
3 Independent working and the gig economy 63
Mingming Cheng and Amy Wei Tian
4 Challenges in managing a multigenerational and diverse workforce 77
Masud Chand
5 The global workforce in Asia 93
Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos and Ioannis C. Thanos

PART II LEADING AND MANAGING IN ASIA
6 Asian leadership: foundations, diversity and challenges 112
Smita Singh and Sophia Zhao Xiuxi
7 Groups and teams in the Asia-Pacific 131
Naina Gupta
8 Recruitment in China 147
Lin-Ya Hong and Fabian Jintae Froese
9 Supervisors’ prosocial feedback delivery: dispositional trait
and motivational concerns 168
Joyce S. Pang and Jisoo Ock
10 Managing burnout and wellbeing 183
Bek Wuay Tang, Jacinth Tan and William Tov
11 The quest for work–life balance 200
Xi Wen (Carys) Chan, Paula Brough, Carolyn Timms and Sherry S.Y. Aw
12 Employee engagement in East Asia 218
Jihye Oh and Shuang Frances Wu

PART III THE ASIAN WORK ENVIRONMENT
13 Organizational culture in Asian societies 250
Pengji Wang, Caroline Yook Ling Wong, Emiel L. Eijdenberg,
Adrian Bradshaw and Chun Meng Tang
14 Virtual work challenges and opportunities in the Asia-Pacific
region: the role of organizational virtual work climate 269
Lama Blaique and Ashly Pinnington
15 Organizational power and politics in Asia 289
Diep Nguyen, Stephen Teo and Nguyen-Vuong Khoi
16 Corporate language policy and its implementation in
Asia-Pacific business 316
Anna J.C. Hsu and Kevin Au
17 Religion and spirituality in the Asian workforce 334
Barry Tse, Kuhanesan Naidu and Jonathan E. Ramsay

PART IV POLICY AND INNOVATION IN ASIA
18 Asian economies in transition 352
Sook Rei Tan, Haejin Jang, Benedict Atkinson and Jacob Wood
19 How power distance shapes social and employment
protections in Asian societies 377
Ulrike Sengstschmid and Chan-Hoong Leong
20 Driving creativity and innovation in Asia 403
Sean T.H. Lee and Angela K.-y. Leung

Index