Introduction

 

Human resource management is offered as a major sequence in the Bachelor of Commerce. HR management covers recruitment, selection, training and development, workplace diversity, employee relations, performance and change management, and remuneration. In this report, I have chosen two famous companies from China and UK to find the differences of Human Resource between these two countries. China mobile company is a Chinese state-owned telecommunication company that provides mobile voice and multimedia services through its nationwide mobile telecommunications network. The company is one of the largest mobile telecommunications companies by market capitalization today and it is also the world's largest mobile phone operator by subscribers with about 740 million. British Telecom Group is a listed company which has been one of the most famous world's leading telecommunications operators. It is mainly composed of five departments: BT Retail, BT Wholesale, BT Ignite, BT OpenWorld range, BT eXact. The main business of BT Group are including the British long-distance business, international telecommunications services, and Internet services. In this report, I mainly try to find the difference of Human Resource between China Mobile Company and British Telecom. According to make the research, it will help me to understand how the human resource management runs in these companies which are in the same industry but different countries. Then I choose two important point in Human Resource Management to make this comparison : Recruitment and Selection. 1)In the narrow sense,the recruitment is to provide a group of candidates that is large enough to let managers select the qualified employees they need.In the broad sense,recruitment includes recruiting,selection,employment and assessment. 2)To employee Selection, it is a process of putting right men on right job. It is a procedure of matching organizational requirements with the skills and qualifications of people. I will make a conclusion by comparing these three aspects between two companies. This report is mainly to find out the differences of Human Resource between Chinese  company and British Company. According to the comparison, it will make me to see the  advantages and disadvantages caused by the difference culture and background. In nowadays, the idea of free trade and integration into the global economy is accepted by  most countries and areas. Almost every famous company has expand market in the whole world. Learning the advantages from others and overcome the disadvantages of itself is obviously important in current competition.

 

 

Literature Review

 

I have read some literatures from professional magazines and periodicals. Therefore, I have paid my attention to some excellent literatures of human resource management.The opinions of Professor Shuming Zhao are reliable and logical and I really agree with his opinions on human resource management. He has made some research to analyze the difference of human resource management between Chinese company and European enterprise. I have followed his opinions and made a conclusion of his literature by myself.

 

 

2.1The features and the advantages and disadvantages of Human resource management in Chinese enterprises

 

According to read Law’s research, we can make a conclusion below: Although during the period of transition economies of China, the effective human resource management still has a significant contribution to performance of enterprises as a special social system existed. The development of human resource management of Chinese enterprises has experienced the transition stage from personnel management to human resource management and administrative support to strategic engagement in the enterprise’s position. The characteristics of human resource management in Chinese enterprises mainly showed in these aspects below: the development of strategic position, the diversity of recruitment, incentives with the equal emphasis on both the moral and the material, the rise of professional managers, the selection based on the seniority, relationships and ability, and constantly improvement of labor market and international human resource management.

 

1) The development of strategic position

 

More and more Chinese companies, such as Huawei, Haier and Media began to pay attention to the strategic position of human resources and implemented the strategic human resource management. The role of Human resource management in the company has changed from the "cost center" to "profit center" and human resources management began to match the ent