Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the relevant sayings and stories of the ancient Chinese sages in relation to the style of Chinese human resource management (HRM). Design/methodology/approach – Related texts generated from the quotations and stories from four Chinese sages,...

Development of strategic HRM in China: an overview -- Review method and theoretical framework for evaluation -- National economic growth and strategic HRM -- Enterprise reform and strategic HRM -- Individual creativity, firm innovation and HRM -- Strategic HRM, labor relations and human rights...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the field of human resource management (HRM) in China, with insights drawn from recent times to several millennia earlier, with a view to informing the further work that needs to be done to better understand managing people in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to show how understanding of human resource (HR) management practices which have been adopted in the emerging markets such as that in China is particularly interesting to academia and management practitioners. The purpose of this study is to shed some...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to integrate cultural value management into the high level of human resource management to propose a new direction of strategic human resource management (SHRM) development through management by the values (MBV) concept. Design/methodology/approach –...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors that have influenced the strategic role of the HR department in Western MNC subsidiaries in China between 1999 and 2006. Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on two sets of quantitative questionnaire data collected in...