China's Changing Workplace

Dynamism, diversity and disparity
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-415-58454-8
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 693 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary China Series

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sheldon, Peter

Kim, Sunghoon

Li, Yiqiong

Warner, Malcolm

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.