Portraiture is the unexpected survivor of the modern movement. Even as photography took over the role of recording likeness--and artists questioned the representational basis of art--almost all the most important artists of the 20th century experimented with portraiture, and many made it a central feature of their work. As the commissioned portrait became more the province of specialists working in conservative styles, avant-garde portraiture became an affair between artists, their friends, and--with the proliferation of self-portraits--their own selves. Focusing on avant-garde European...
Portraiture is the unexpected survivor of the modern movement. Even as photography took over the role of recording likeness--and artists questioned th...
This book examines the role of trade unions vis-a-vis management in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present day. It deals with the evolution, reform and consolidation of the Chinese labour movement and, particularly, the role of the main arm of Chinese organized labour, the All-China Federation of Trade Unions (ACFTU) at both the apex and grass-roots levels. It not only covers the recent history of Chinese trade unions but also assesses their strategy and structure and membership as well as their legal context. After this, it goes on to consider their role vis-a-vis management...
This book examines the role of trade unions vis-a-vis management in the People's Republic of China from 1949 to the present day. It deals with the evo...
This edited volume first considers the economic background of the recent changes in HRM in the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the present day, exploring the change from a command economy to a more market-led one. It then goes on to look at the demise of so-called 'iron rice bowl' policy once dominated by a Soviet-inspired Personnel Management model to one now characterized by possibly Japanese, as well as Western-influenced HRM, albeit with what are widely described as 'Chinese characteristics'. Finally, it concludes with a comparative analysis of the contributions in the book on...
This edited volume first considers the economic background of the recent changes in HRM in the People's Republic of China from 1978 to the present ...
This book evaluates the evolution of 'Big Business in Asia', as we enter the new millennium. It focuses on recent issues affecting large corporations, both indigenous and foreign owned, such as multinational companies and international joint ventures, as well as on key events such as the Asian Crisis and its aftermath, China's entry into the WTO, the recent downturn in the world economy and the onset of SARS. This book was previously published as a special issue of the journal "Asia Pacific Business Review."
This book evaluates the evolution of 'Big Business in Asia', as we enter the new millennium. It focuses on recent issues affecting large corporations,...
Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking.
Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars in the field, this book shows how unemployment is one of the key issues facing the Chinese economy. China's market-oriented economic reform and industrial restructuring, while greatly improving efficiency, have also sharply reduced overstaffing, leading to a large increase in unemployment.
At the same time, further...
Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next s...
A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions provides the background to this presentation of a new, organizationally oriented theory of union democracy. Supported by in-depth studies of the political process in the British Mineworkers' Union and the Engineers' Union, the book develops and illustrates a general theory of how, in a country with democratic norms, formal organization itself can constrain a tendency toward oligarchy by stimulating union competition among full-time officers attempting to rise in the union hierarchy. The broad...
A major empirical study of thirty-one British and fifty-one American national trade unions provides the background to this presentation of a new, orga...
This volume sets out in search of what we call 'Confucian HRM' in Greater China and beyond. It covers theory and practice not only in the People's Republic of China but also in the Overseas Chinese (Nanyang) Diaspora, namely in Hong Kong and Taiwan, among others. It will seek to understand how far traditional Chinese culture and values continue to influence the degree to which the human resource management (HRM) as adopted in those cultural contexts has been implemented. Confucian HRM in Greater China includes a wide range of concepts such as Confucian HRM, employee participation, family...
This volume sets out in search of what we call 'Confucian HRM' in Greater China and beyond. It covers theory and practice not only in the People's Rep...
China has become one of the fastest-growing economies ever seen in the world in recent times. In the last three decades, China has transformed itself from a command economy to a market one, albeit a nominally socialist one, and its management systems have been reformed accordingly. In the light of these changes, Malcolm Warner, one of the leading authorities on management in China, explores the past, present and future of Chinese management. The first part of the work examines the history of management practices in the 'Middle Kingdom', outlining the influence of traditional Chinese...
China has become one of the fastest-growing economies ever seen in the world in recent times. In the last three decades, China has transformed itse...
This volume looks at the relationship between society and human resource management (HRM) in China. In doing so it asks how representative the latter is of the former. The contributors argue that there needs to be a minimum degree of consonance between these two variables if HRM is to be sufficiently underpinned by social reality. It is only in a wider framework that 'people-management' in general - and in China in particular - can be fully understood, whether through theory or through practice. Society and HRM in China explores the changes in Chinese society over the last century and then...
This volume looks at the relationship between society and human resource management (HRM) in China. In doing so it asks how representative the latter ...
China's recent economic reforms have fuelled impressive growth & an unprecedented enthusiasm for foreign investment in the country. This study reflects on the institutional changes & what they mean both for business in the world's third largest economy, & for the Chinese people.
China's recent economic reforms have fuelled impressive growth & an unprecedented enthusiasm for foreign investment in the country. This study reflect...
