外文文献RecruitmentandSelectionProcessesinAustraliaandChina.doc

RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION PROCESSES IN AUSTRALIA AND CHINA: REWARDS FROM COMMON SENSE AND PLAIN DEALING. Carolyn Dickie, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology Laurence Dickie, Curtin Business School, Curtin University of Technology Abstract Western practices of recruitment and selection are not transferable, easily or automatically, by multi-national or local companies entering the economically vibrant Chinese market. In the current paper, Western HR functions are compared with Eastern, Chinese approaches; the major finding being that, although similar language is used to describe HR processes, cultural factors affect the practices differently. Introduction: Since introducing a market economy in 1978, China has been one of the fastest growing economies in Asia. In recent times expansion has occurred throughout the world, and interest in China has exploded to the stage where China fever is a world-wide syndrome. Furthermore, with its entry into the World Trade Organisation in 2001, China was immediately recognised as one of the world’s economic superpowers. By the turn of the century, China was reported to command in excess of a forty-two percent share of all foreign investment in Asia (Glover Siu, 2000). Similarly, in 2000, there were over sixty thousand foreigners living in the capital city of Beijing, the focal point for Chinese commerce (Yu, 2001). Many more operated in cities across the country, a majority of whom were employed by multinational companies and brought with them western management practices (Ding et al., 2000). Thus, in China, there has arisen an awareness of the need to adopt more effective human management practices in state-owned enterprises (Ding et al., 2000), to influence the lives of consumers, employees and citizens (Fishman, 2005) through its rapidly changing, reformed economy; an activity which presents some interesting challenges to organisations, employers and employees. In the West, studies conducted in the Unit