Full Description
Moving between linguistic, professional and national boundaries is part of the daily reality of modern workplaces, where the concept of a job for life is now outdated. Employees move between jobs, countries and even professions during their working lives, but the multilayered process of redefining personal, social and professional identities is not reflected in current workplace research. This volume brings together a range of scholars from different disciplinary areas in the field, examining the challenges of transition into a (new) workplace, team or community, as well as transitions within different professional communities. By analyzing the strategies individuals adopt to navigate the boundaries they face (in languages, workplaces or countries), this book demonstrates that transitions are not linear but are negotiated and constructed in the situated'here and now'of workplace interaction, at the same time as they are positioned in the wider socioeconomic order.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Negotiating boundaries at work, Jo Angouri, Meredith Marra & Janet Holmes Part I: Transitions to a profession; Chapter 2: Negotiating social legitimacy in and across contexts: Apprenticeship in a'dual'training system, Stefano A. Losa & Laurent Filliettaz; Chapter 3: Language mentoring and employment ideologies: Internationally educated professionals in search of work, Julie Kerekes; Chapter 4: Oh it's a DANISH boyfriend you've got- Co-membership and cultural fluency in job interviews with minority background applicants in Denmark, Marta Kirilova; Chapter 5: Constructing a'mission statement-A multimodal perspective on believable identity construction in a job interview, Ewa Kusmierczyk-O'Connor; Chapter 6: Teamwork and the 'global graduate': Negotiating core skills and competencies with employers in recruitment interviews, Sophie Reissner-Roubicek; Chapter 7: Doing evaluation'in the modern workplace: Negotiating the identity of'model employee'in performance appraisal interviews, Dorien Van De Mieroop & Stephanie Schnurr; Part II: Transitions within a profession; Chapter 8: Multilingualism and work experience in Germany: On the pragmatic notion of'patiency' Kristin Buhrig & Jochen Rehbein; Chapter 9: Working and learning in a new niche: Ecological interpretations of work-related migration, Minna Suni; Chapter 10: Have you still not learnt Luxembourgish? Negotiating language boundaries in a distribution company in Luxembourg, Anne Franziskus; Chapter 11:The'internationalised'academic: Negotiating boundaries between the local, the regional and the'international'at the university, Anne H. Fabricius; Chapter 12: Collaborating beyond disciplinary boundaries, Seongsook Choi
