Comparing and contrasting the HR practices in China and South Korea

Human Resource Management (HRM) has been considered as the important part of management in enterprise in the modern society because it influences on the whole member of company. In the recent years, under the impact of environmental changes such as globalization, benchmarking, and "best practice", it seems that HRM tends to converges and universalizes (Rowley & Benson 2002). However, more recently researches questions whether there is a convergence of HR practices between countries as pressure …

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