{"title":"Human resources and management in China's 'hi-tech' revolution: a study of selected computer hardware, software and related firms in the PRC","authors":"M. Warner","doi":"10.1080/095851999340602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340602","url":null,"abstract":"This study examines the management of human resources in China's 'hi-tech' revolution, as it mainly appears in its computer hardware, software and related products firms. Based on a study of both large and small enterprises in Beijing's 'Electronics Alley' in Haidian, it looks at their HRM characteristics, namely at their labour management relations, employment contracts, rewards system, social insurance and personnel behaviour (such as recruitment, labour turnover and dismissals). The main conclusions confirm a degree of institutional continuity with past work-unit (danwei) practices but point also to the makings of a new employment relationship, with a weakening of the old 'patron-client' relationship.","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"31 1","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76297193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expatriate adjustment and commitment: the role of host-unit treatment","authors":"G. Florkowski, D. Fogel","doi":"10.1080/095851999340152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340152","url":null,"abstract":"This article tests the hypotheses that perceived host ethnocentrism will impact negatively on expatriates' work adjustment, host commitment and parent commitment as well as increase the desire to return early from overseas assignments. Hierarchical regression analyses were performed on survey data from 250 international assignees controlling for a wide range of personal, organizational and locational characteristics. As predicted, perceptions of local ethnocentrism had a negative effect on work adjustment and commitment to the host unit, particularly when cultural distance was low. We also found that European expatriates were more likely to react negatively to perceptions of host ethnocentrism than were their American counterparts. In general, there was no support of the hypothesized links between perceived host ethnocentrism and parent-firm commitment or the desire to return early.","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"16 1","pages":"783-807"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75863766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing the success of male and female expatriates from a US-based multinational company","authors":"Paula M. Caligiuri, Rosalie L. Tung","doi":"10.1080/095851999340143","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340143","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the differences between male and female expatriate employees along three criteria of global assignments: (1) cross-cultural adjustment, (2) desire to terminate the assignment and (3) supervisor-rated performance. Participants were ninety-eight expatriate employees from a US-based multinational organization. The countries to which these expatriates were assigned varied along the four work values proposed by Hofstede (1980). These dimensions were used first to determine which of the underlying cultural work values are associated with the number of women in managerial positions. The results suggest that all of the dimensions, except masculinity, were related to the participation of women in managerial roles. Second, these dimensions were used to examine whether these work values differentially affect male and female expatriates' success. Two work-values (power distance and masculinity) negatively affect the cross-cultural adjustment of expatriate women (compared to their male counterparts...","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"15 1","pages":"763-782"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82017893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An improved subordinate appraisal of bank manager's competence","authors":"N. Avkiran","doi":"10.1080/095851999340558","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340558","url":null,"abstract":"The three-factor, forty-five item instrument measuring manager's competence in retail banking returns a poor comparative fit index when modelled as an orthogonal or oblique model. Revisiting the original scale development study published in 1996 with a new data set and following a revised research design yields a considerably improved model. A second-order factor, overall managerial competence, is demonstrated to capture a meaning common to the five first-order factors, namely, entrepreneurial style , interpersonal skills , intellectual capacity , participative management style and emotional maturity . The revised model with substantially improved construct validity and reconfirmed instrument reliability can now be used with more confidence by human resource managers. The revised instrument can become a diagnostic tool in identifying areas of incompetence in management, as well as an instrument of feedback to the manager from subordinates. Allowing subordinates to voice their opinions about their immediat...","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"7 1","pages":"273-286"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78983978","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The transfer of human resource and management practice by Japanese multinationals to Australia: do industry, size and experience matter?","authors":"W. Purcell, S. Nicholas, D. Merrett, G. Whitwell","doi":"10.1080/095851999340648","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340648","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines management and HRM practices adopted by Japanese multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the transferability of Japanese HRM in the Australian host-country situation. It also compares HRM practices of Japanese MNEs in Australia with the experience in North America and Europe and attempts to map the typology of the human resource management utilized by a range of Japanese firms operating in Australia, including large and small firms; manufacturing and non-manufacturing companies; firms with differing levels of Japanese equity and with different levels of operational experience. This paper is based on survey data from sixty-nine Japanese subsidiaries operating in the Australian manufacturing and service sectors in 1994.","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"71 1","pages":"72-88"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74954430","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Human resource management in Botswana: approaches to enhancing productivity in the public sector","authors":"K. Hope","doi":"10.1080/095851999340666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340666","url":null,"abstract":"Public-sector productivity is an issue that is now squarely on the agenda in the global arena. In recent times it has also emerged in the research and literature on human resource management and development as a significant aspect of the advocacy for re-engineering or re-inventing government, entrepreneurial government, quality management in the public sector, public sector efficiency and so on. This paper discusses and analyses productivity in the public sector in Botswana, the current approaches being employed to enhance it, and advocates, from a human resource management perspective, policy areas which can be beneficial for the sustainable enhancement of that productivity in the country.","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"92 1","pages":"108-121"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80445684","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HRM, rhetoric and the psychological contract: a case of 'easier said than done'","authors":"D. Grant","doi":"10.1080/095851999340585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340585","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that employee expectations play an important role in the formulation of the psychological contract under HRM. It goes on to suggest that a key feature of the psychological contract and the expectations that it encompasses is the way in which the expectations are influenced by management rhetoric. The article presents a theoretical framework of how this occurs and uses case-study evidence in order to illustrate the process. It finds that the task for management is to match what their rhetoric promises to reality while also sustaining its appeal. A failure to do so is indicative of a failure to meet employee expectations and this has a number of negative implications for an organization's performance.","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"7 1","pages":"327-350"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76293369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The impact of changes to the human resources function in Australia","authors":"C. Fisher, P. Dowling, Jim Garnham","doi":"10.1080/095851999340459","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340459","url":null,"abstract":"Results from a national survey of membership of the professional body, the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI), provide clear support that senior HR managers perceive that HR needs to be linked much more closely to organizational strategy and there should be consistency between HR policy areas. This is coupled with an expectation that HR must significantly add value and make an improved contribution to organizational effectiveness. There is also evidence of movement towards a framework that supports a unitarist approach to employee relations. Within an environment which expects high levels of employee performance and commitment the HR function has the potential to make a valuable contribution. In aligning itself with management, however, it may also risk distancing itself from a workforce that may not be able or willing to make the same transition.","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"76 1","pages":"501-514"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88973378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Factors influencing the adjustment of women on global assignments","authors":"Paula M. Caligiuri, Aparna Joshi, M. Lazarova","doi":"10.1080/095851999340495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340495","url":null,"abstract":"This study tests a four-factor model proposed by Caligiuri and Cascio (in press) for predicting the cross-cultural adjustment of female expatriates. The four factors tested in this paper were family support, personality characteristics, organizational support and host nationals' attitudes towards female expatriates. Structured phone interviews with thirty-eight American female expatriates from US-based companies were conducted. The responses were content analysed and regression was conducted. The results suggest company and family support are significantly related to cross-cultural adjustment. Thus, suggestions are given for future research on female expatriates using the theoretical model of social support. Practical recommendations for how to maximize the likelihood of success for women on global assignments are also given.","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"2 1","pages":"163-179"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86467393","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Managing the Employment Relationship on Greenfield Sites in Australia and New Zealand","authors":"J. Leopold, Jerry Hallier","doi":"10.1080/095851999340369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/095851999340369","url":null,"abstract":"Utilising a two dimensional framework of analysis of the employment relationship on greenfield sites first tested in a Scottish study (Leopold and Hallier, 1997), this study develops that framework and applies it to companies operating on greenfield sites in Australia and New Zealand. Examples are analysed of companies attempting break with the past; replication of a high commitment style; and continuing traditional approaches. The point made in the earlier study that not all greenfield site management seek to establish a new philosophy is reconfirmed. There is also evidence of the tendency for companies to attempt replication of successful philosophies that are judged to be robust and universal. Difficulties in sustaining such approaches caused by adverse product market fluctuations lead to the preferred philosophy being reformulated, re-stated and re-sold to the workforce as it cannot be abandoned on any site or it would lose claims to universality. A 'crisis of employee expectations' in high commitment...","PeriodicalId":14185,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Human Resource Management","volume":"19 1","pages":"716-736"},"PeriodicalIF":5.6,"publicationDate":"1999-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81818457","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}