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

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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.

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  1. These are Taiwan’s Institute of Human Resource Management at National Sun Yat-sen University and the Graduate Institute of Human Resource Management in National Central University.

  2. The situation turned around in the second half of 2008 due to the global economic downturn. Many high-tech companies asked employees to take unpaid vacations because of production-cuts. The situation has been recovering gradually since the second quarter of 2009.

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Chen, SY., Chuang, CH. & Chen, Sj. A conceptual review of human resource management research and practice in Taiwan with comparison to select economies in East Asia. Asia Pac J Manag 35, 213–239 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-017-9516-1

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