The Quality of Life in Hong Kong

Sing, Ming

doi:10.1007/s11205-008-9349-x

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“…Table 1 presents the profile of respondents that were surveyed in the 2006 AsiaBarometer study. The respondents in the AsiaBarometer survey were reported to be fairly representative of the respective national populations (see Shu and Zhu 2009;Inoguchi and Shin 2009;Park 2009;Sing 2009;Tambyah et al 2009). …”

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Generalized Trust and Trust in Institutions in Confucian Asia

Tan¹,

Tambyah²

2010

Soc Indic Res

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Section: The Asiabarometer Surveymentioning

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Generalized Trust and Trust in Institutions in Confucian Asia

Tan¹,

Tambyah²

2010

Soc Indic Res

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“…Prior research has indicated that there are considerable barriers against undertaking voluntary work in Hong Kong. Although Hong Kong citizens believe that firms should contribute to the community (Ramasamy and Yeung 2009), typically they are not proactive in this process (Sing 2009). Very few Hong Kong residents regard contributing to the community as an important life attribute (Sing 2009).…”

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“…Although Hong Kong citizens believe that firms should contribute to the community (Ramasamy and Yeung 2009), typically they are not proactive in this process (Sing 2009). Very few Hong Kong residents regard contributing to the community as an important life attribute (Sing 2009). There is no established tradition of helping the poor, vulnerable and needy in society (Wong 2008, p. 332) and materialistic values predominate (Wong and Wan 2009).…”

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Conservative transformation: actively managed corporate volunteerism in Hong Kong

Snell

Wong

2011

Asian J Bus Ethics

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Our Hong Kong-based study used interviews with volunteers and other stakeholders to investigate the perceived integrity and commitment of firms' adoption of actively managed corporate volunteerism (AMCV), to examine whether AMCV was removing barriers against voluntary community service work and to identify volunteers' motives for AMCV involvement. Interviewees perceived that firms were adopting strategically instrumental approaches to AMCV, combining community service provision with corporate image promotion and/or with organisational development. They indicated that although AMCV was mobilizing people, who would not otherwise have chosen to volunteer, instances of 'conscription' were uncommon. Those who had served as volunteers described positive motives for their own involvement, such as altruism, principlism, self-development, loyalty to the firm and relationship building with colleagues and service recipients. Some expressed that volunteering had been a highly rewarding self-transformation experience. Our study also used the career orientations inventory (COI) to examine career anchors. COI scores indicated that non-governmental organisation (NGO)-based employees and some firm-based paid AMCVorganisers preferred the service/dedication to a cause anchor and that firm-based unpaid organisers-cum-participants preferred the lifestyle anchor. Volunteers without organiser roles had miscellaneous preferences but leaned toward the security anchor. From our findings, we argue that it would benefit all parties if firms, in close collaboration with NGOs, were to expand the range of volunteering opportunities that are available to employees and help them to choose activities and roles that are congruent with their career anchors, if they so wish.

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“…Economically, Hong Kong is considered as a service economy with low taxation, labour freedom, efficient regulatory frameworks and free trade, ranked freest in the world by the Index for Economic Freedom, despite recent concerns about higher levels of perceived corruption and undermined public trust (The Heritage Foundation, 2015). As such, the population is described by Sing (2009) as characterised by a deep desire for materialistic attainment; however, the income gap is the highest in the AsiaPacific with a Gini coefficient of 53.7 measured on gross income, and 47.5 post-tax and post social transfers (Hong Kong SAR Government, 2011).…”

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Aspirational ambivalence and the imagined futures of middle-class secondary students in Hong Kong

Tsao¹

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The rise of malaise, cynicism and disenfranchisement amongst youth has been a widely debated discourse in recent times, especially within the Hong Kong context given recent student protests. In understanding how this collective expression of protest has arisen, this Appadurai's notions of the 'capacity to aspire', and Charles Taylor's concept of 'social imaginary', to help make sense of students' mediations and aspirations for the future.Bourdieu's relational thinking and his epistemological reflexivity, coupled with the identification of Taylor's 'modern social imaginary' as expressed in the Hong Kong context, and Appadurai's notion of cultural capacity, informed the methodological approach. The collection of data involved observations and interviews with members of six focus groups across three distinctively situated schools in Hong Kong, together with compilation of publicly available documents produced by these schools. Incorporation of autoethnographic experiences helped to further contextualise the analysis. Analytically, the research shows how aspirational dispositions and logics formed by specific configurations of the broader cultural and social milieu of Hong Kong, middle class familial practices, non-elite EMI schooling experiences, and the place of English in Hong Kong, were complicit -in complex and nuanced ways -in fostering disjunctive dynamics, engendering a sense of ambivalence towards the future for these students. The research is significant because it reveals how aspirational ambivalence has become a dominant logic amongst these students, and arguably contributes to a sense of malaise and collective disillusionment amongst many of Hong Kong's youth.ii

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The Quality of Life in Hong Kong

Abstract: Hong Kong, Quality of life, Democracy, Asia, AsiaBarometer, Happiness,

Cited by 36 publications

References 16 publications

Generalized Trust and Trust in Institutions in Confucian Asia

Generalized Trust and Trust in Institutions in Confucian Asia

Conservative transformation: actively managed corporate volunteerism in Hong Kong

Aspirational ambivalence and the imagined futures of middle-class secondary students in Hong Kong

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