Course Title : Chinese Human Resources Management

Course Code : FB8213

Prerequisites : Nil

Precursors : Nil

Teaching Pattern : Seminars

Total Hours : 40 (40)

(Group Size)

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the course is to provide participants with practical knowledge of Chinese human resource management with special emphasis on human resource management in the P.R.C., and Hong Kong.

Objectives

After completion of the course, participants will:

(a) understand the cultural origins of Chinese human resource management,

(b) identify the strategic links between environmental factors, organizational factors, and human resource management in Chinese enterprises,

(c) understand and critically analyse the current human resource management practices in Chinese enterprises, and

(d) apply knowledge and concepts in Chinese human resources management to their work environment.

Syllabus

1. Chinese culture and Chinese H.R.M.

Concepts and contents. Cultural origins: Confucianism, Taoism, Legalism, Buddhism.

Traditional values: trust, altruism, face, bao, renqing, guanxi

2. Business environments and H.R.M. strategies in Chinese enterprise

Stability, complexity, market diversity, and hostility of business environment

H.R.M. strategies in Chinese enterprises

3. Organizational factors and H.R.M. practices in Chinese enterprise

Organizational type, age, size, control, formalization

H.R.M. practices in Chinese enterprises

4. Configurations of H.R.M. practices in the P.R.C. and other Chinese communities

A comparative approach and their implications

5. H.R.M. practices in foreign-invested enterprises in the P.R.C

Cross cultural issues and challenges

6. Labour and management relations in the P.R.C

7. Labour regulations in the P.R.C.

Implications for H.R. managers

The Labour Law and social insurance policies

8. Looking ahead

The future challenges of Chinese human resources management

An evaluation of Chinese H.R.M., the main trends and challenges

Teaching Methods

The form of teaching is seminars. Guest speakers will be invited. Participants are encouraged to participate and share their experiences with others.

Assessment

Open-final examination : 40% (one 3-hour examination)

Project : 30%, the participants will be required to write-up a case study about Chinese human resource management practices

Participation : 30%

Booklists

Warner, M. The Management of Human Resources in Chinese Industry, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995.

Hoftstede, G. Culture's Consequences: International differences in work-related values, Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 1980.

Kao S.R. et al. (eds.). Effective Organizations and Social Values, New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1994.

Redding, G. The Spirit of Chinese Capitalism. Berlin, New York: de Gruyter, 1994.

England, J. Industrial Relations and Law in Hong Kong. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Levin, D. and Ng Sek-hong. From an industrial to a post-industrial economy: challenges for human resource management in Hong Kong. in Anil Verma (eds.) Employment Relations in the Growing Asian Economies, London and New York: Routledge, 1995.

Wong Siu-lun. Emigrant Entrepreneurs: Shanghai Industrialists in Hong Kong, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Jackson, S. Chinese Enterprise Management Reforms in Economic Perspective, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1992.

Child, J. Management in China during age of reform. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Baker, H.D.R., The Overseas Chinese, London: B.T. Batsford, 1987.

Fitsgerald, S., China and the Overseas Chinese: A Study of Peking's Changing Policy, 1949-70, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972.

Seagrave, Sterling, Lords of the Rim: the Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese, New York: Putnam's Sons, 1995.

Yong, C. F., Tan Kah-kee: the Making of an Overseas Chinese Legend, Singapore: Oxford University Press, 1987.

Li, Peter S., The Chinese in Canada, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Moore, L.F. and Jenning, P.D (eds.), Human Resource Management on the Pacfic Rim: Institutions, Practices and Attitudes, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1995.

Laaksonen, Oiva, Management in China during & after Mao, Berlin/New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1988.

Wong, S. L., Emigrant Entrepreneurs, Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1988.

In Chinese:

Yang Kuo-shu and Tsang Shi-qiang (eds.) Zhong-guo ren de guan li guan, Management from a Chinese Perspective, Taipei: Guiguan.

WANG, GUNGWU (1991), "CHINA & the Chinese overseas", Times Academic Press.

Supplementary Readings include professional journals such as Research Reports published by the Hong Kong Institute of Human Resource Management, Far Eastern Economic Review, Asia Week.

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