Malcolm (University of Cambridge, UK) Warner 
Human Resource Management in China Revisited [PDF ebook] 

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.

This volume was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of Human Resource Management.