ABSTRACT
After a relatively dispirited discussion on the inequality of work and employment in the previous three chapters, this chapter returns to a more positive and optimistic note on recent developments in HRM in China. In spite of the heavy criticisms of China’s personnel policy and practice by (Western) scholars, human resource management is attracting wide attention as a subject in the relatively new management discipline in China since the late 1990s. There has been an unprecedented addition of instruction books and journals prescribing the what, why and how aspects of the subject readily identifiable in the Western HRM literature. More and more universities are developing HRM courses at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, although currently only a few universities have the capacity to provide degree courses on HRM. Organizational leaders also speak in the language of HRM, although it is debatable if such policy and practice truly exist in their organizations.
