Language Matters: Status Loss and Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations
Abstract
How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this question. Results indicate that nonnative English-speaking employees experienced status loss regardless of their English fluency level. Yet variability in their self-assessed...
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Title
Language Matters: Status Loss and Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations
Published Date
Apr 1, 2013
Journal
Volume
24
Issue
2
Pages
476 - 497
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