Learning and emotional work

What is it about?

This article explores the emotional dimensions of Chinese immigrant's work related learning experiences in the engineering profession in Canada. It finds a competitive, masculine, and individualistic engineering “culture” in Canada, where the emotional and the relational, supposedly central to the Asian and Chinese culture, are largely devalued. To fit into the individualistic culture, the respondents took up different strategies.

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Why is it important?

The study suggests that while emotional connection and personalized relationship are “culturally” discouraged in engineering workplaces, they are of significant use value for immigrant workers and should be addressed to create humanized work environments.