Q2. What is the third test in the professional socialisation of the young employees?
The third test in the professional socialisation of the young employees concerns emotional regulation and is manifested by their ability to detach themselves emotionally from their work.
Q3. What is the role of corporate banks in the remuneration of capital?
The purchase and subsequent resale of companies enables the remuneration of capital by the added value that the companies are expected to bring.
Q4. What are the prerequisites for being a good financial intermediary?
in order to be deemed a good financial intermediary when under the age of 30, the employee must demonstrate competency in the handling of figures.
Q5. What is the second facet of the work of junior middlemen?
A second facet of their work consists of organising and guiding the younger employees into producing quantitative analyses and material for oral presentations to be delivered to customers, in the expected timeframes.
Q6. What does Becker say about the role of the employee?
Becker emphasise in their research, at the heart of the socialisation process, the professional role expected of the employee can be very different to that which they had envisaged as an applicant, bringing about crises and dilemmas.
Q7. What are the main characteristics of the critiques of the financial intermediaries?
Whether they be from the media, politicians or the public, these critiques are rooted in a representation of the company viewed as a complex space where matters of common sense, health (of the employees as well as the consumers and citizens), the spreading of wealth and social regulation take place.
Q8. Why are the consequences of the transactions not discussed?
Indeed in this professional space that is so enlivened by the spirit of commercial competition, the operational consequences for the companies that have been sold/resold/merged are not discussed.
Q9. What are the intermediaries involved in the buying and selling of companies?
They are, on one hand, financial executives and chief financial officers of companies acting on behalf of their shareholders (or themselves, when they are the owners) and, on the other hand, “heads of investment” of investment funds acting on behalf of the investors in these funds4.
Q10. What is the hierarchy in an auditor’s firm?
In the case of investment banks the hierarchical structure usually follows this pattern: Analyst, Associate, Vice-President, Executive Director & Managing Director, whereas the hierarchy in an auditor’s firm is usually: Junior Analyst, Senior Analyst, Manager, Senior Manager & Partner.