A conceptual review of human resource management research and practice in Taiwan with comparison to select economies in East Asia

Human resources are increasingly crucial to the growing economies of East Asia, which are striving to diversify economically toward higher value-added product-markets to continue their growth. Human resource management (HRM) in Taiwan, based on Confucianism and influenced by Western management resea...

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Published in:Asia Pacific journal of management 2018-03, Vol.35 (1), p.213-239
Main Authors: Chen, Shu-Yuan, Chuang, Chih-Hsun, Chen, Shyh-jer
Format: Article
Language:English
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Business and Management
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Human resource management
Management
Management science
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Social sciences
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Summary:Human resources are increasingly crucial to the growing economies of East Asia, which are striving to diversify economically toward higher value-added product-markets to continue their growth. Human resource management (HRM) in Taiwan, based on Confucianism and influenced by Western management research and practice, has been experiencing a major paradigm shift of sorts in recent years. With Taiwan’s rapid economic growth followed by its industrial and institutional transformation, HRM in the region has been developing to cope with the increasingly competitive and fast-changing business world. As such, this study reviews HRM’s development in Taiwan over the recent decades. The reviewed studies were gathered from work published from 1990 to 2016 appearing in the Social Sciences Citation Index or Taiwan Social Sciences Citation Index Chinese journals. A detailed discussion of HRM development in Taiwan is made, along with a summarizing scheme and some comparison to HRM in other select economies in East Asia, including those of Mainland China and Hong Kong which share the same cultural lineage and values.
ISSN:0217-4561
1572-9958
DOI:10.1007/s10490-017-9516-1