Research on the cross-culture human resources management in China’s joint ventures

RESEARCH ON THE CROSS-CULTURE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGEMENT IN CHINA 'S JOINT VENTURES

INTRODUCTION

Human resource management (HRM ) is a detailed subject with various branches relating to diverse s of HRM . One of the major studies in Human Resource Management is cross-cultural study with respect to cross-country joint ventures taking place over the globe . The research currently under progress is related to cross culture study of human resource management in joint ventures taking place in China . The purpose of the research is to evaluate and understand cross culture joint ventures and

how human resources are affected by such joint ventures Additionally , the research would be focused on evaluating the various aspects of human resource management in the corporate settings of China in reference to cross culture joint ventures

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The study of human resource management in China with respect to cross culture joint ventures will focus on both qualitative as well as quantitative research . The reason for focusing on both types of research is to evaluate the extent of human resource management and understand the depth of management in the corporate settings of China . In this regard , ethnographic study would be extremely difficult to conduct , as it will become extremely expensive and time consuming to conduct an ethnographic , qualitative study . However , questionnaires , interviews and focus groups would be conducted to perform a qualitative study about techniques and ways of human resource management in China regarding cross culture joint ventures

Major questions to ask during the focus groups , interviews and through questionnaires are noted as below

Common human resource management practices currently in the organization

Reasons for including these practices in human resource management in the organization

The new practices implemented after the cross culture joint venture in the organization

The reasons for including these new human resource management practices in the organization

Quantitative research would include forming a sample of people and using new Human Resource Management practices on those people , while taking a group of people as a a control group or sample and using the old Human Resource Management practices on them . Various quantitative methods of research would be applied with best results through F test as we have various variables to verify in the research

STRUCTURE OF THE RESEARCH

The structure of the research would be as follows

Forming groups of people for four different types of analyses

Focus groups

Interviews

Conducting questionnaires

Sample testing

All four of these groups would be handled in a different manner and multiple questions would be asked from each group so as to make our results both reliable and valid through out the research . Additionally the research would be substantiated through various theories and models which are explained ahead , in to validate our results

MODELS AND THEORIES TO BE USED

Cross cultural human resource management is a strategic subject altogether as is stated by one of the authors on cross culture human resource management : As different organizations have developed different ways of managing their human resources that seem to have...