f face: The Chinese in Singapore are divided into various
communities depending on their forefathers= origins in China and the
dialect group. To unit the Chine, the Singapore government advocated the
use of Mandarin as a common language. Use of dialects was strongly
discouraged. Television shows and radio programmes in dialects were
Abanned@. This pretty much upset the older folks who felt that their old
traditions and culture were being Aerased away@, and that the Aold@ ways
2.1.4 Loss of confidence: The employee feel that he cannot perform just
as well under the new way of doing things. A typist who formerly could
type at 60wpm and now has to use the computer, is afraid that she cannot
type just as fast on the machine. In the 1960s, English was promoted as
the official language of Singapore. The older Chinese, who came to
Singapore in the first half of the century, were mainly uneducated. They
built up their businesses through hard work. Accounts were kept in Athe
head@ and credit was given on trust. They felt that they would not able
to cope just as well in the new English speaking environment.
2.1.5 Loss of control: The government=s population control policy
encourage the Singapore citizens to Astop at two@. Measures to discourage
having more children, such as higher accouchement fees for the third
child, low priority in education, etc. were implemented. Many couples
felt that they had no choice but to follow the policy. Their feeling was
of *things being done *to= you rather than *by= or *with= you.@.
2.1.6 Poor timing: In these times, when changes are happening
frequently, the employee will feel overwhelmed by the many changes and
also that things are moving too fast. Before he has learnt how to use
WordPerfect 5.1, Microsoft comes out with Microsoft Word 6.0 and he has
2.1.7 Work overload: With the tight labour shortage in Singapore, many
employees ha...