Changing Workplace Relations in the Chinese Economy

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List of Tables List of Figures Preface Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations List of Contributors PART 1: SETTING THE SCENE Introduction M.Warner The Origins of Chinese 'Industrial Relations' M.Warner & Z.Ying Chinese Trade Unions and Workplace Relations in State-Owned and Joint Venture Enterprises A.Chan The Social Role of the Chinese State Enterprise A.Hussain PART 2: EMPIRICAL STUDIES In Pursuit of Flexibility: The Transformation of Labour- Management Relations in Chinese Enterprises J.Benson & M.Yausa Industrial Relations versus Human Resource Management in the PRC: Collective Bargaining 'with Chinese Characteristics' M.Warner & S.H.Ng Local or Global? HRM in International Joint Ventures in China I.Bjorkman & Y.Lu Occupying the Managerial Workplace in Sino-foreign Joint Ventures A Strategy for Control and Development J.Child Standardized Performance Management: A Study in JVs in China N.Lindholm Work-Related Attitudes among Chinese Employees vis a vis 'American' and 'Japanese' Models N.Bu & J.L.Xu Pay and Motivation in Chinese Enterprises B.Sun PART 3: EMERGING TRENDS Readjusting Labour: Enterprise Restructuring, Social Consequences and Policy Responses in Urban China S.Cook From Client to Challenger: Workers, Managers and the State in Post-Dengist China J.Sheehan China's Developing Civil Society: Interest Groups, Trade Unions and Associational Pluralism S.Ogden Notes References Index