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Title: The Management of Human Resources in Chinese Industry (Studies on the Chinese Economy) by Malcolm Warner ISBN: 0312125240 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $79.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4

Rating: 4
Summary: China HR is quickly moving from politics to performance.
Comment: After I spent 4 years in China in the field of HRD and training, it is clear that the area of HRM in CHINA is still an underappreciated function. The focus on CHINA today is the bottom line and immediate money, yet serious investment needs to made in the area of human capital and HR development for CHINA to emerge as a global competitor. The HR function will continue to grow and emerge as reality sets in and CHINA realizes that people development, not exports, develop economies. The long term future for HR is bright in CHINA, but now it is still an emerging issue.

Many of China's SOEs are rooted in political praise and dogma, and not grounded in productivity and performance. China is desperate to change this, and Dr. Warner's book clearly points out the magnitude of change necessary in several large SOE's in the Dongbei area of CHINA. The book is well written, though the terms used and statistical jargon have a dulling effect on reader interest. The book is a scientific study presented in the format of relevant information. Another further critique is that CHINA's SOEs are not the wave of the future, the MNC's are, and CHINESE companies must emulate these Western models if they are going to have global success. China's new market economy with "Chinese characteristics" needs to change to "global characteristics". No doubt Dr. Warner is someone who is very familiar with Chinese bureacracy, compensation and benefits, low worker performance, "xiagang", and production quota's, along with its many remnants of Marxism that the new economic Czar, Zhu Rongji, is desperate to root out. I give Dr. Warner's book 4 out of 5 stars, due to information and focus content. Dr. Warner is an "old China hand" yet CHINA is changing so quickly that you can't recognize the skyline if you don't return every 6 mos., his book is already 4 plus years old and now that Deng is dead, things are changing at an exponential pace. Some of the factories he wrote about then are no doubt being downsized, merged, or shuttered even as this is written.