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
Abstract
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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