Human Resources Management In China

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In general, the development of China's HR management has evolved with concept processing, exploration, and intensification of the system during 30 years of reform.
Emerging in the early 1980s, HR management was one of the frontiers of American management study. However, up to the mid-1980s, the phrase “HR management” remained unfamiliar to the Chinese public and it was even misinterpreted to read “personnel management.”
During that time, workers were not considered in terms of individual contributions, but rather as factors of production similar to land, capital, and other resources. It was understood that personnel management, in relation to the perception of its employees, was seen only as a tool to manage and control …show more content…

Their work provided the theoretical foundation for China's HR management. Shuming Zhao, together with other distinguished Chinese scholars, introduced advanced Western HR management concepts into China. For example, upon returning to China in 1991, Shuming Zhao contributed to the early HR management research in International Business: HR Management and International Comparative Study on HR Management and Development. In this early work, Zhao advanced the concept that HR management represented the trio of effective development, rational use, and scientific management necessary for the appropriate development of unique human resources. Effective development of human resources includes not only the intellectual development, but …show more content…

These drawbacks resulted from the vague property rights system, the administrative overreach of internal management systems of the state-owned enterprises, and the development of the professional human resource market management. Responding to these problems, scholars such as Liao (1998) and Chang (1995) conducted a comprehensive analysis of HR management by exploring the influence of the national human resource laws and policies. Zhang (1996) focused on the internal control and corporate governance framework in the reform of state owned businesses. Zhang (2002) and Shi (1998) are among those Chinese scholars who early on paid attention to the talent value of workers, the value calculation of human resources, and the motivations of income

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