Recruitment and selection in Chinese MNEs

Abstract This article explores HRM issues in Chinese multinational enterprises (MNEs), in particular, the recruitment, selection and repatriation of expatriate management in ten Chinese MNEs. Owing to the rapid growth of internationalization of Chinese firms, IHRM in the Chinese context has been attracting both academic and practitioners' interest. The approach of Chinese MNEs to IHRM has become an urgent area of management study. This article represents one part of the results of a recent study of Chinese IHRM. It concludes that, even though recruitment and selection policies and practices in Chinese MNEs are more progressive in adopting modern HRM concepts than is the case in domestic Chinese firms, current practices are still divergent from those of major Western MNEs. Keywords: IHRMrecruitment and selectionexpatriatesexpatriate failurerepatriationChinese MNEs Acknowledgement The authors would like to thank the anonymous referees for their helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper and Professor Ke Yong Dong, the People's University, China, for useful advice and contact with the participating companies.