ABSTRACT
This chapter examines organizational contexts in which the more traditional meanings and performances of whiteness have been able to be largely maintained, despite broader challenges of multiculturalism and localization. It focuses principally on the relationship between whiteness and masculinity. Whilst globalization has led to a dramatic rise in the number of multinational corporations, whether this has led to any decline in the importance of nationality within those organizations is highly debateable. As in the corporate sector, development organizations tend to be bureaucratic in structure, form and practice, just as were their colonial predecessors. Club membership is a way of constructing the identities of organizations as well as employees, and this is especially the case in Hong Kong where clubs built around sport or occupation. The Hong Kong Police Force is a particularly strong example of a Western-style formal bureaucratic organizational structure, in terms of its methods of recruitment, selection, and career ladders.
