By Chan, K. (ed.)
In accordance with a large-scale survey, indepth interviews and comparative analyses, this booklet deals deep analyses of labor pressure and coping between seven specialist teams: medical professionals, legal professionals, engineers, nurses, academics, law enforcement officials, and lifestyles coverage brokers. The publication makes sensible ideas for private, organizational and societal intervention.
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This measure is open particularly to middle managers who only hold high-sounding job titles and not much else. According to one unionist: Vast technological advances made in recent years have led to the elimination of manual tasks and we are experiencing an increasing specialisation of the workforce. . Professionals including fresh graduates like engineers, production supervisors, accountants and even lawyers . . are no different from the majority of the workers who are isolated from the decision making process of the companies.
Second, a questionnaire on work stress was sent to the top 20 electronic multinationals and the Engineering Faculty of a tertiary institution in Singapore. The first section of this chapter will feature some aspects of the globalisation of Singapore’s economy and its abiding impact on the work experience of engineers. In the second section, we point out the emerging conditions which have tended to erode the class position of professionals like engineers. In this discussion, the ambivalent position of engineers in the class structure will also be considered.
Fiftytwo percent of those surveyed said bleak career prospects had caused them to suffer from extreme to moderate levels of stress. Capital owners would tend to fight demands for raising wages, wherever the source. Just as employers try to cut costs by guarding against unwarranted recruitment of additional manpower and incremental wage raises and promotions, the pressure is also on to stint on training programs despite the acquisition of new technological systems. Some employers even openly admit they prefer to take in technical people based on renewable contracts.