Human Resource Management in China Revisited

<p>This edited volume first considers the economic background of the recent changes in HRM in the People''s Republic of China from 1978 to the present day, exploring the change from a command economy to a more market-led one. It then goes on to look at the demise of so-called ''iron rice bowl'' policy once dominated by a Soviet-inspired Personnel Management model to one now characterized by possibly Japanese, as well as Western-influenced HRM, albeit with what are widely described as ''Chinese characteristics''. Finally, it concludes with a comparative analysis of the contributions in the book on China vis-a-vis an appraisal of these with the national HRM systems of Japan and South Korea. </p><p></p><p>This volume was previously published as a special issue of the <em>International Journal of Human Resource Management</em>.</p>