China's Changing Workplace

Dynamism, diversity and disparity
Herausgeber: Kim, Sunghoon; Sheldon, Peter; Li, Yiqiong

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the diversity and dynamism of China's workplaces and of the wider labour market experiences of its workforce. Drawing on the authors' extensive recent research, it considers a diverse range of issues and types of workplaces. These changes include: the continuing spread of market-oriented human resource management across public and private sector organisations; greater employment rights for workers; local diversity in regulatory control alongside the governmental priority of a 'harmonious society'; persistent shortages of skilled labour co-existing with vast underemployment amongst the unskilled; uneven access to education and training across regions; and changes in union behaviour and influence. Unlike other studies - which tend to assume changes to management, work and employment are relatively uniform across modernising parts of the economy - this book conveys the rich variety among contemporary China's local labour markets by looking at them, and the institutions that influence them, from the bottom-up. It focuses on other under-explored but emerging phenomena such as family-owned firms, the role of private services businesses, and the emergence of employer associations.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 695g
• ISBN-13: 9780415584548
• ISBN-10: 041558454X
• Artikelnr.: 31385995

Autorenporträt

Peter Sheldon is an Associate Professor in the School of Organisation and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia. Sunghoon Kim is a Lecturer in the Australian School of Business, University of New South Wales, Australia. Yiqiong Li is completing her PhD at the School of Organisation and Management, University of New South Wales, Australia. Malcolm Warner is Professor and Fellow Emeritus of Wolfson College and Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, UK. He recently co-edited 'Making Sense' of HRM in China (also published by Routledge) and is co-editor of Asia Pacific Business Review.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1; Putting Change in Context 1. Transition to a Socialist Market
Economy: Factor Markets, Management and Human Resources in China 2. Chinese
Business Systems and the Challenges Of Transition 3. Changing Legislative
and Institutional Arrangements Facing China's Workplace Part 2: Emerging
Dynamics In Labor Markets 4. Change and Continuity in China's Urban
Workforce: Recent Trends 5. Local Labour Markets 6. Education, Training And
Skills 7. Skill Shortages: Where Labour Supply Problems Meet Employee
Poaching 8. Remaking China's Working Class: Gongren and Nongmingong Part 3:
China's Changing Workplace: Emerging Divergence 9. Human Resource
Management and Employment Relations In State-Owned Enterprises 10. Foreign
Invested Firms and their Human Resource Management: Beyond Early Transition
Period 11. People Management Practices in Family Firms 12. HRM And
Employment in the Service Industry Part 4: Change, Divergence And
Disparity: Some Consequences 13. Institutional Conditions for Organising
Decent Work in Global Production Networks 14. Labour Market Disparities and
Inequalities 15. Changing Chinese Trade Unions: A Three Level Analysis 16.
Employer Coordination and Employer Associations