Human Resource Management 'with Chinese Characteristics': Facing the Challanges of Globalization

by Malcolm Warner (Editor)

Overview

Nearly a decade into World Trade Organization membership, how is China’s system of people-management adapting to the changing world? This edited book provides an up-to-date, state-of-the-art overview of current theory and practice of human resource management, ‘with Chinese characteristics’. The latter is a phrase used to refer to the specific cultural, institutional and social setting in which such management structures and processes are to be found in the ‘Middle Kingdom’.

As the People’s Republic of China becomes inexorably linked to the international economy and increasingly faces the challenges of globalization, its enterprises and their managers have to adapt to pressures to conform to external human resources and employment norms, whilst at the same time conforming to internal labour laws and socio-political demands. The tension between these two sets of factors provides an arena in which human resource managers, as well as workers, have to cope, perform and survive.

The papers included in this collection are all based on empirical on-site research by specialists in the field. They deal with such HRM-related topics are expatriates, family demands, human capital, joint ventures, labour disputes, organizational commitment, psychological contracts, social networks, work behaviour and the like. The authors of the papers covered in the book come from a variety of backgrounds and university affiliations in Australia, Canada, Finland, Hong Kong, Japan, People’s Republic of China, United Kingdom and United States of America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415574679
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/25/2009
Pages:	230
Product dimensions:	6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d)

About the Author

Malcolm Warner is at the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK.

Table of Contents

1. INTRODUCTION - Reassessing human resource management ‘with Chinese characteristics’: An overview Malcolm Warner 2. Application of human capital theory in China in the context of the knowledge economy Shuming Zhao 3. More evidence on the value of Chinese workers’ psychological capital: A potentially unlimited competitive resource? Fred Luthans, James B. Avey, Rachel Clapp-Smith and Weixing Li 4. Human resource management and the globalness of firms: An empirical study in China Ji Li, Gongming Qian, Stacey Liao and Chris W. L. Chu 5. Devolvement of HR practices in transitional economies: Evidence from China Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, Brian Cooper, Helen de Cieri, S. Bruce Thomson and Shuming Zhao 6. Understanding the domain of counterproductive work behaviour in China Maria Rotondo and Jia Lin Xie 7. Work and family demands and life stress among Chinese employees: The mediating effect of work – family conflict Jaepil Choi 8. Organizational commitment of Chinese employees in foreign-invested firms Jos Gamble and Qihai Huang 9. Emotional bonds with supervisor and co-workers: Relationship to organizational commitment in China’s foreign-invested companies Yingyan Wang 10. The effect of organizational psychological contract violation on managers’ exit, voice, loyalty and neglect in the Chinese context Steven X. Si, Feng Wei and Yi Li 11. Modelling regional HRM strategies in China: An entrepreneurship perspective Zhong-Ming Wang and Sheng Wang 12. Human resource management in foreign-owned subsidiaries: China versus India Ingmar Bjorkman, Pawan Budhwar, Adam Smale and Jennie Sumelius