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Human resource management practices and affective organizational commitment: A comparison of Chinese employees in a state‐owned enterprise and a joint venture
Author(s) -
Yu Bonnie Bei,
Egri Carolyn P.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/1038411105058706
Subject(s) - business , organizational commitment , human resource management , job satisfaction , joint venture , international joint venture , german , business administration , china , antecedent (behavioral psychology) , marketing , management , psychology , economics , social psychology , political science , archaeology , law , history
This study investigated influences on employee satisfaction with HRM systems and affective organizational commitment in a Sino‐German joint venture and a state‐owned enterprise in China. Employees in the joint venture were found to be significantly more satisfied with their organization's HRM practices than were employees in the state‐owned enterprise. In turn, employee satisfaction with HRM practices was found to have a more significant influence on affective commitment in the joint venture than in the state‐owned enterprise. The Chinese human‐heartedness cultural value was found to be an antecedent of employee affective commitment but influenced satisfaction of employees in regards to only some of the HRM practices in a state‐owned enterprise. Implications for strategic HRM theory and changes in Chinese HRM systems are discussed.