Management Setting Parties HRM System Work System Lessons for Canada Questio ns Question: Private schools are prohibited in China to emphasize equality in education. True or False?
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Management. Question: Private schools are prohibited in China to emphasize equality in education. True or False?. Management. Answer: False Government works with public and private education systems in attempts to increase access and options for schooling. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Question:Private schools are prohibited in China to emphasize equality in education. True or False?
Answer: FalseGovernment works with public and private education systems in attempts to increase access and options for schooling.
• 2003: Law on Promotion of Private Education• 2005: 79,000 private and 110,000+ public
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Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1975) Attempted to erase aspects government believed
to contribute to inequality, including traditional merits of academia
Created a generation that was poorly educated academically
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Post-Cultural Revolution (late 1970’s and beyond) Goals geared towards opening-up and development
• Fading norm of lifelong employment and the Iron Rice Bowl
Idea of HRM had little formal importance• Funding channelled to science and technology
Staffing largely relied on guanxi
• Evaluating the competence of a candidate based on the knowledge of him/her through relationship
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Period of economic growth in the 90’s hid staffing problems• High turnovers; difficult retention
Employees compared jobs almost solely on pay compensation• Less value on job development opportunities
MBA’s and other professional qualifications viewed simply as status symbols
Amounted to added costs but not necessarily benefits for an organization
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Increasing government focus on improving workforce quality
Policy focus: education access, technical training, vocational qualification system
1999, called for social sectors to put emphasis on recognizing these qualifications
Setting ambitious goals of increasing population with higher level education
College graduates: 1999 – 1million 2010 – 6.3million
Graduates from Jinan University at a job fair in Guangzhou
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Worker Categories• Survivors – experienced and skilled, knowing their market value• Worried Young – averagely educated, abundant in supply• Discouraged Old – less educated, looking towards retirement
High volumes of graduates with mismatched skills and high expectations• Not enough professional
positions
Employees demanding more advancement opportunities• No longer satisfied
with waiting to move up based on accumulating years of loyalty
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Question:Foreign recruits are highly sought after and compensated much more generously than local hires in China.True or False?
Answer: TrueHowever, this gap is quickly diminishing due to:
• Growing supply of highly educated young locals• Rising local standard of living
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Local vs. Foreign
English is an asset Foreign or foreign trained recruits viewed as
more qualified and were paid more• Compensation gap is narrowing in recent
years• Still hiring from the West, but compensation
packages are much more comparable to locals
Today the key is a background that understands Chinese and Western influences – fitting beneficial business techniques of the West into Chinese context
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