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 WORKERSIntroduction to Managing People Across the Asia-Pacific: AnOrganizational Psychology Approach 2Eddy S. Ng, Jonathan E. Ramsay, Jacob Wood and K. Thirumaran1 The post-pandemic workplace: issues and insights for futureresearch and action 19Pengji Wang, Shaoyuan Chen, Angeline Lim Cuifang and SophiaZhao Xiuxi2 Telework and telecommuting as new work forms 47Yvette Blount and Lucy Taksa3 Independent working and the gig economy 63Mingming Cheng and Amy Wei Tian4 Challenges in managing a multigenerational and diverse workforce 77Masud Chand5 The global workforce in Asia 93Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos and Ioannis C. ThanosPART II LEADING AND MANAGING IN ASIA6 Asian leadership: foundations, diversity and challenges 112Smita Singh and Sophia Zhao Xiuxi7 Groups and teams in the Asia-Pacific 131Naina Gupta8 Recruitment in China 147Lin-Ya Hong and Fabian Jintae Froese9 Supervisors’ prosocial feedback delivery: dispositional traitand motivational concerns 168Joyce S. Pang and Jisoo Ock10 Managing burnout and wellbeing 183Bek Wuay Tang, Jacinth Tan and William Tov11 The quest for work–life balance 200Xi Wen (Carys) Chan, Paula Brough, Carolyn Timms and Sherry S.Y. Aw12 Employee engagement in East Asia 218Jihye Oh and Shuang Frances WuPART III THE ASIAN WORK ENVIRONMENT13 Organizational culture in Asian societies 250Pengji Wang, Caroline Yook Ling Wong, Emiel L. Eijdenberg,Adrian Bradshaw and Chun Meng Tang14 Virtual work challenges and opportunities in the Asia-Pacificregion: the role of organizational virtual work climate 269Lama Blaique and Ashly Pinnington15 Organizational power and politics in Asia 289Diep Nguyen, Stephen Teo and Nguyen-Vuong Khoi16 Corporate language policy and its implementation inAsia-Pacific business 316Anna J.C. Hsu and Kevin Au17 Religion and spirituality in the Asian workforce 334Barry Tse, Kuhanesan Naidu and Jonathan E. RamsayPART IV POLICY AND INNOVATION IN ASIA18 Asian economies in transition 352Sook Rei Tan, Haejin Jang, Benedict Atkinson and Jacob Wood19 How power distance shapes social and employmentprotections in Asian societies 377Ulrike Sengstschmid and Chan-Hoong Leong20 Driving creativity and innovation in Asia 403Sean T.H. Lee and Angela K.-y. LeungIndex

‘This is a welcome addition to the literature on managing people and organizations in the Asia-Pacific that takes an indigenous and critical stance on the prior dominance of ethnocentric Western perspectives. It successfully and competently covers the context and operation of many of the main dimensions and contours of Asian management.’