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

List of Tables 5.1 Company profile (manufacturing) 5.2 Company profile (banking) 5.3 Work organization (manufacturing) 5.4 Work organization (banking) 5.5 Employment relations (manufacturing) 5.6 Employment relations (banking) 5.7 Industrial relations practices (manufacturing) 5.8 Industrial relations practices (banking) 7.1 A comparison of HRM practices in Western MNCs, local Chinese firms and international JVs 8.1 Chinese and foreign tenure of key appointments 8.2 Chinese and foreign nominations to key managerial appointments 8.3 Correlations between (1) equity share and relative provision of non-equity resourcing and (2) occupancy of key appointments 8.4 Correlations between length of JV operation and appointments to key positions 8.5 Chinese and foreign tenure of key appointments by sector 8.6 Chinese and foreign tenure of key appointments by status of foreign parent company 8.7 Regression (least squares) of key executive appointments on predictor variables 8.8 Pearson correlations between the holding of appointments by foreign managers and differences in foreign and Chinese control within specific areas 9.1 Characteristics of subsidiary managers and subordinates 9.2 Categorization of subsidiary managers' PM style 9.3 Chinese subordinates' perceptions of PM style 1 and 2 9.4 Chinese subordinates' job experience 10.1 Chinese employees in comparison with American and Japanese employees 11.1 Summary of statistics of basic data (Plant 1) 11.2 Summary of statistics of basic data (Plant 2) vii 11.3 Definition of what is 'fair' in pay and labour issues among the Chinese workers 11.4 Estimates of regression equations 12.1 Number of enterprise and SOE lay-offs, 1995-7 12.2 Number of laid-off workers registered in RSCs 12.3 Households experiencing a decline on previous year's income per capita by income quintile 12.4 Unemployment and lay-offs in Chengdu and Shenyang, 1998 viii List of Tables Who could be more important than the contributors to this volume? They cover a wide range of passports (American, Australian, British, Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction: Whither the Iron Rice-Bowl?....Pages 3-14 The Origins of Chinese ‘Industrial Relations’....Pages 15-33 Chinese Trade Unions and Workplace Relations in State-owned and Joint-venture Enterprises....Pages 34-56 The Social Role of the Chinese State Enterprise....Pages 57-73 Front Matter....Pages 75-75 In Pursuit of Flexibility: The Transformation of Labour-Management Relations in Chinese Enterprises....Pages 77-99 Industrial Relations versus Human Resource Management in the PRC: Collective Bargaining ‘with Chinese Characteristics’....Pages 100-116 Local or Global? Human Resource Management in International Joint Ventures in China....Pages 117-138 Occupying the Managerial Workplace in Sino—foreign Joint Ventures: A Strategy for Control and Development?....Pages 139-162 Standardized Performance Management: A Study in JVs in China....Pages 163-184 Work-Related Attitudes among Chinese Employees vis-`-vis ‘American’ and ‘Japanese’ Management Models....Pages 185-204 Pay and Motivation in Chinese Enterprises....Pages 205-223 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China....Pages 227-246 From Client to Challenger: Workers, Managers and the State in Post-Dengist China....Pages 247-262 China’s Developing Civil Society: Interest Groups, Trade Unions and Associational Pluralism....Pages 263-297 Back Matter....Pages 299-302 This volume attempts to look beyond the 'iron rice bowl' employment system that has typified Chinese workplace relations since the early 1950s and how Deng's economic reforms since 1978 have changed its 'jobs for life' and 'cradle to the grave' welfare arrangements. Part I covers the development of industrial relations in the PRC since 1949, the evolution of its trade unions in both state-owned and joint-venture firms and the role of state-owned enterprises as embodiments of this lifetime employment system. Part II proceeds to look at ongoing empirical research on current labour-management practices, individual and collective contracts, human resource management in joint ventures, performance-based rewards systems and changing workers' attitudes. Part III considers wider issues, such the growth of unemployment due to structural reforms, the challenges to 'socialist' workplace relations and the role of organized labour in contemporary Chinese economy and society 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. Examines the background of economic reforms and how they have changed workplace relations in the Chinese economy. Looks at key themes relating to the role of trade unions and the management of human resources in both state-owned and joint-venture firms and sets out a number of illustrative case-studies involving industrial relations and human resource management This edited collection mainly deals with the fate of the 'iron rice-bowl' (tie fan wan) which has characterized work units (danwie) in the People's Republic of China (PRC) for almost the last 50 years. Edited By Malcolm Warner. A Collection Of 14 Papers Contributed By An International Group Of Scholars. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.