Advances in Human Resource Management in Asia

Human resource management performs a different function and operates very differently in Asia to its practice in the US and Europe. This volume demonstrates how human resource management is enacted in Asian countries, how it is changing in response to recent economic events, and how firms are linking indigenous and external human resource management learning. Examples are taken from firms in Japan, China, Korea and Thailand, and these domestic approaches are then considered in the context of joint ventures. As well as providing a detailed analysis of Asian human resource management, contributors with perspectives from both the East and the West show how multinational firms can incorporate Asian thinking and acting into a modern business strategy for successful human resource development in international ventures.

Affirmation of the Central Role of Human Resource Management in Asia PART I: Human Resource Management of Asian Firms The Rise of a Venture Business Culture and the Changes in Human Resource Management in Japan Deployment of Knowledge Workers in Japanese Corporate R&D at the Turning Point Towards the Knowledge-Based Economy On Human Resource Development and Human Resource Management in the Chaebols of South Korea in Response to a National Economic Crisis Transitions and Tradition in Chinese Family Business: Evidence from Hong Kong and Thailand Thai Business Culture: Hierarchy and Groups, Initiative and Motivation Career Planning and Development of Managers in Thailand Training in Thailand: Trends and Cases from the Service Industries The Future of China's Human Resource Management in its Asia Pacific Regional Context: A Critical Perspective PART II: Human Resource Management of Western Firms in China Cross-cultural Human Resource Strategies in China and India Human Resource Development for Localization: European Multinational Corporations in China Management of Human Resources in Joint Ventures in China Culture and BrainStyles©TM: New Alternatives for Human Resource Strategies to Develop Chinese-Western Cooperation

DIETER ALBRECHT Project Management Consultant, West-East Dragons, China NEAL M. ASHKANASY Professor of Management, Graduate School of Management, University of Queensland VINDA CHAINUVATI Department of Organizational Behaviour, Claremont Graduate School BRIGITTE CHARLES-PAUVERS Director, French Chinese International Management Center PHILIPPE DEBROUX Professor of International Management, SOKA University, Tokyo NITI DUBEY-VILLINGER Lecturer, Wolfson College, Cambridge BIRGIT ENSSLINGER Research Assistant, Department of Business Administration, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg SUSANNE ESSLINGER Research Assistant, Department of Business Administration, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg ALEXANDER FLIASTER Assistant Professor, Institute for Human Resource Management and Organization Studies, German Armed Forces University CHERLYN S. GRANROSE Professor of Organizational Behaviour, Claremont Graduate School TREVOR GRIGG Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Technology Management Centre, The University of Queensland BRIJ N. KUMAR Formerly Professor and Chair of Business Economics and International Management, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg CORINNA T. DE LEON Psychologist and Consultant, Hong Kong GARY MCLEAN Professor in Business and Industry Education, College of Education and Human Development, University of Minnesota ROGER PYATT Marketing Consultant, Hong Kong JAN SELMER Professor of Management, Hong Kong Baptist University RICK TAMASCHKE Reader, Graduate School of Management. The University of Queensland MALCOLM WARNER Professor and Fellow, Wolfson College, University of Cambridge VERNER WORM Assistant Professor, Asia Research Center, Copenhagen Business School