In Search of the Roots of 'Human Resource Management' in the Chinese Workplace

Ronald Busse ()
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Ronald Busse: Fresenius University of Applied Sciences

No 2016/02, Working Papers from Cambridge Judge Business School, University of Cambridge

Abstract: The main thrust of this article is to trace the roots of US-driven 'Human Resource Management' (HRM) school of thought which now become widely institutionalized in China, up to the present day. It examines the diffusion of management knowledge over the period to Chinese business, which involved in turn, Scientific Management (SM), Human Relations (HR) and Human Resource Management (HRM) respectively, from the interwar years onwards, by using a bibliometric analysis of Chinese- language sources, searching a number of data-bases now available. We scanned the international, as well as Chinese, literature in order to support a conjecture of a HR route toward China and how it morphed into HRM and go on to conclude that there was by the end of the year 2015 still a significant output of academic publications with references to both HR and HRM respectively but that we must be cautious in putting forward a firm conclusion.

Keywords: China; human relations; human resource management; people-management; scientific management; workplace (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02
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