1st Edition

Society and HRM in China

Edited By Malcolm Warner Copyright 2012
240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

240 Pages
by Routledge

This volume looks at the relationship between society and human resource management (HRM) in China. In doing so it asks how representative the latter is of the former. The contributors argue that there needs to be a minimum degree of consonance between these two variables if HRM is to be sufficiently underpinned by social reality. It is only in a wider framework that ‘people-management’ in... Read more

1. Society and HRM in China Malcolm Warner

2. Explaining the human resource management preferences of employees: a study of Chinese workers Ziming Cai, Jonathan Llewelyn Morris and Jing Chen

3. The impact of Chinese cultural values on human resource policies and practices within transnational corporations in China Yu Fu and Nicolina Kamenou

4. Multiple foci and bases of commitment in a Chinese workforce Andy W. Chan, Ed Snape and Tom Redman

5. When employees fail in Chinese enterprises: attribution, responsibility, and constructive criticism Aiqing Zhang, Christine Reyna and Liqun Huang

6. Newcomer socialization in China: effects of team values and goal interdependence Nancy Yifeng Chen, Dean Tjosvold, Xu Huang and Da Xu

7. Behavioural indicators of turnover intention: the case of young professionals in China Nailin Bu, Carol A. McKeen and Wenguo Shen

8. Good guanxi and bad guanxi: Western bankers and the role of network practices in institutional change in China Jane Nolan

9. The effects of psychological contract violation on Chinese executives Yongjian Bao, Bradley Olson, Satyanarayana Parayitam and Shuming Zhao

10. Knowledge management in Chinese organizations: collectivist values for open-minded discussions Guoquan Chen, Dean Tjosvold, Nan Li, Yue Fu and Dawei Liu

11. Talent management and management fashion in Chinese enterprises: exploring case studies in Beijing David Preece, Paul Iles and Xin Chuai

12. Human resources, higher education reform and employment opportunities for university graduates in the People’s Republic of China Shuang Ren, Ying Zhu and Malcolm Warner

Biography

Malcolm Warner is Professor and Fellow Emeritus at Wolfson College and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. His most recent edited book is Confucian HRM in Greater China: Theory and Practice (2011). He is currently co-editor of the Asia Pacific Business Review.