Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy: (Studies on the Chinese Economy)

Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy attempts to deal with how China's economic reforms have undermined the 'iron rice-bowl' system which since the 1950s has provided both 'lifetime-employment' and 'cradle-to-the-grave' welfare for many workers, particularly those in state-owned enterprises. It starts by examining the background of these reforms and how they have changed workplace relations in the Chinese economy; it will also look at key themes relating to the role of trade unions and the management of human resources in both state-owned and joint-venture firms; finally, a number of illustrative case-studies involving industrial relations and human resource management are set out. A set of contributors, drawn from a wide range of disciplines and nationalities who are expert in these fields, have contributed chapters to the volume.

Table of Contents:
List of Tables List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Contributors PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE Introduction; M.Warner The Origins of Chinese 'Industrial Relations'; M.Warner & Z.Ying Chinese Trade Unions and Workplace Relations in State-Owned and Joint Venture Enterprises; A.Chan The Social Role of the Chinese State Enterprise; A.Hussain PART 2: EMPIRICAL STUDIES In Pursuit of Flexibility: The Transformation of Labour- Management Relations in Chinese Enterprises; J.Benson & M.Yausa Industrial Relations versus Human Resource Management in the PRC: Collective Bargaining 'with Chinese Characteristics'; M.Warner & S.H.Ng Local or Global? HRM in International Joint Ventures in China; I.Bjorkman & Y.Lu Occupying the Managerial Workplace in Sino-foreign Joint Ventures; A Strategy for Control and Development; J.Child Standardized Performance Management: A Study in JVs in China; N.Lindholm Work-Related Attitudes among Chinese Employees vis a vis 'American' and 'Japanese' Models; N.Bu & J.L.Xu Pay and Motivation in Chinese Enterprises; B.Sun PART 3: EMERGING TRENDS Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China; S.Cook From Client to Challenger: Workers, Managers and the State in Post-Dengist China; J.Sheehan China's Developing Civil Society: Interest Groups, Trade Unions and Associational Pluralism; S.Ogden Notes References Index

About the Author :
MALCOLM WARNER is Professor and Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge and a member of faculty at Judge Institute of Management Studies, University of Cambridge. His previous publication in this series (with Ng Sek Hong) is China's Trade Unions and Management.

Review :
Esch of the fourteen contributions to this collection discusses a number of the important, all-encompassing changes taking place in the Chinese workplace today...much food for thought and discussion in this volume. "China Review International"