Recruitment and selection in Chinese MNEs

Abstract

This article explores HRM issues in Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs), in particular, the recruitment, selection and repatriation of expatriate management in ten Chinese MNEs. Owing to the rapid growth of internationalization of Chinese firms, IHRM in the Chinese context has been attracting both academic and practitioners' interest. The approach of Chinese MNEs to IHRM has become an urgent area of management study. This article represents one part of the results of a recent study of Chinese IHRM. It concludes that, even though recruitment and selection policies and practices in Chinese MNEs are more progressive in adopting modern HRM concepts than is the case in domestic Chinese firms, current practices are still divergent from those of major Western MNEs.

Keywords:

• IHRM
• recruitment and selection
• expatriates
• expatriate failure
• repatriation
• Chinese MNEs

Acknowledgement

The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper and Professor Ke Yong Dong, the People's University, China, for useful advice and contact with the participating companies.

Notes

Jie Shen, University of South Australia, Division of Business and Enterprise, GPO Box 2471, City West Campus, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia (e-mail: [email protected]). Vincent Edwards, The Business School, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, UK (tel:[phone]; fax:[phone]; e-mail: [email protected]).

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