Introducing Western Human Resource Management Practices To China: Shopfloor Workers' Perspectives
The management of host country employees is often portrayed as a particularly fraught dimension for multinational firms. The problems involved are considered exponentially greater when there are substantial institutional differences and 'cultural distance' between the host country and a...
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| description | The management of host country employees is often portrayed as a particularly fraught
dimension for multinational firms. The problems involved are considered exponentially
greater when there are substantial institutional differences and 'cultural distance'
between the host country and a firm's parent country, as is assumed to be the case for
Western firms operating in China. Based upon detailed case study research conducted at
a UK-invested firm in China between 1999 and 2003 and a comparative study of a
Chinese state-owned firm, this paper explores the veracity of such assumptions. The
findings indicate that Western human resource management practices can be
transplanted successfully and questions the degree to which foreign-invested enterprises
need to adopt 'the Chinese way of doing things'. Indeed, such practices can be innovative
in the Chinese context and provide a competitive source of differentiation for
multinationals as employees. |
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| spelling | usm.eprints-359392017-08-04T07:48:55Z http://eprints.usm.my/35939/ Introducing Western Human Resource Management Practices To China: Shopfloor Workers' Perspectives Gamble, Jos HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management The management of host country employees is often portrayed as a particularly fraught dimension for multinational firms. The problems involved are considered exponentially greater when there are substantial institutional differences and 'cultural distance' between the host country and a firm's parent country, as is assumed to be the case for Western firms operating in China. Based upon detailed case study research conducted at a UK-invested firm in China between 1999 and 2003 and a comparative study of a Chinese state-owned firm, this paper explores the veracity of such assumptions. The findings indicate that Western human resource management practices can be transplanted successfully and questions the degree to which foreign-invested enterprises need to adopt 'the Chinese way of doing things'. Indeed, such practices can be innovative in the Chinese context and provide a competitive source of differentiation for multinationals as employees. Asian Academy of Management (AAM) 2006 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://eprints.usm.my/35939/1/AAMJ_11-1-6.pdf Gamble, Jos (2006) Introducing Western Human Resource Management Practices To China: Shopfloor Workers' Perspectives. Asian Academy of Management Journal (AAMJ), 11 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 1394-2603 http://web.usm.my/aamj/11.1.2006/AAMJ%2011-1-6.pdf |
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| title | Introducing Western Human Resource
Management Practices To China:
Shopfloor Workers' Perspectives |
| title_full | Introducing Western Human Resource
Management Practices To China:
Shopfloor Workers' Perspectives |
| title_fullStr | Introducing Western Human Resource
Management Practices To China:
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| title_full_unstemmed | Introducing Western Human Resource
Management Practices To China:
Shopfloor Workers' Perspectives |
| title_short | Introducing Western Human Resource
Management Practices To China:
Shopfloor Workers' Perspectives |
| title_sort | introducing western human resource management practices to china shopfloor workers perspectives |
| topic | HD28-70 Management. Industrial Management |
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