IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/apbizr/v24y2018i4p429-436.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The challenges of managing ‘new generation’ employees in contemporary China: setting the scene

Author

Listed:
  • Malcolm Warner
  • Ying Zhu

Abstract

In recent years, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has experienced serious labour-management conflict. The majority of Chinese workers today, out of a workforce of around three-quarters of a billion, belong to a ‘new generation’ of employees (xinshengdai yuangong), who have been labelled as the ‘post-1980s’, ‘post-1990s’ and ‘millennial’ phenomena, who see the world differently from the previous generation. They have experienced a ‘sea-change’ in ‘Industrial and Labour Relations’, as well as ‘Human Resource Management’, across the ‘Middle Kingdom’. In this collection, we explore the background of, the challenges to and the importance of this cohort of young workers in the PRC.

Suggested Citation

  • Malcolm Warner & Ying Zhu, 2018. "The challenges of managing ‘new generation’ employees in contemporary China: setting the scene," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 429-436, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apbizr:v:24:y:2018:i:4:p:429-436
    DOI: 10.1080/13602381.2018.1451130
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/13602381.2018.1451130
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/13602381.2018.1451130?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Malcolm Warner, 2017. "On globalization ‘with Chinese characteristics’?," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(3), pages 309-316, May.
    2. Tian Gao & Bruce Gurd, 2018. "Problems and challenges in managing the new generation of doctors in Chinese hospitals," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 528-542, August.
    3. Xuanfang Hou & Wenqi Li & Qiao Yuan, 2018. "Frontline disruptive leadership and new generation employees’ innovative behaviour in China: the moderating role of emotional intelligence," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 459-471, August.
    4. Haibo Wang & Xiaohui Wang & Jinrong Li, 2018. "Is new generation employees’ job crafting beneficial or detrimental to organizations in China? Participative decision-making as a moderator," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 543-560, August.
    5. Yixuan Zhao, 2018. "Managing Chinese millennial employees and their impact on human resource management transformation: an empirical study," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 472-489, August.
    6. Shuang Ren & Yuhua Xie & Ying Zhu & Malcolm Warner, 2018. "New generation employees’ preferences towards leadership style in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 437-458, August.
    7. Yufang Huang & Di Fan & Yiyi Su & Fei Wu, 2018. "High-performance work systems, dual stressors and ‘new generation’ employee in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 490-509, August.
    8. Xin Deng, 2018. "Embedding ‘familiness’ in HRM practices to retain a new generation of migrant workers in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 561-577, August.
    9. Fangjian Wu & Guiyao Tang & Wei Sun, 2018. "Exploring ‘new generation’ employees’ green tactics in environmental protection in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 510-527, August.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ye Zhu & Weiyu Cao & Xin Li & Ran Liu, 2022. "The Role of Housing Tenure Opportunities in the Social Integration of the Aging Pre-1970 Migrants in Beijing," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(12), pages 1-23, June.
    2. Ye Ye & Rosmini Omar & Binyao Ning & Hiram Ting, 2020. "Intergenerational Transmission of Occupation: A Qualitative Inquiry into Frontline Factory Workers in China," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 12(20), pages 1-17, October.
    3. Mohammed Y. A. Rawwas & Yanfang Wang & Baochun Zhao & Basharat Javed, 2018. "A comparison between North and South business ethics: the concepts of Renzhi and Fazhi in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(5), pages 585-601, October.

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Ying Zhu & Malcolm Warner, 2018. "Managing ‘new generation’ employees in China and beyond: summing-up," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 578-584, August.
    2. Li Zhao & Wei Li & Hongru Zhang, 2022. "Career Adaptability as a Strategy to Improve Sustainable Employment: A Proactive Personality Perspective," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 14(19), pages 1-20, October.
    3. Marina Anna Schmitz & Fabian Jintae Froese & Anna Katharina Bader, 2018. "Organizational cynicism in multinational corporations in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(5), pages 620-637, October.
    4. Mohamed Mousa & Walid Chaouali & Monowar Mahmood, 2023. "The Inclusion of Gig Employees and their Career Satisfaction: Do Individual and Collaborative Job Crafting Play a Role?," Public Organization Review, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 1055-1068, September.
    5. Mashal Ahmed Watoo & Man Cao & Zhao Shuming, 2023. "High-performance work systems and the work–family interface: a cross-level investigation," Asian Business & Management, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 22(3), pages 935-954, July.
    6. Malcolm Warner, 2018. "Post capitalism: a guide to our future; How will capitalism end?: essays on a failing system; The perils of leaving economics to the experts; Inventing the future: postcapitalism and a world without w," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(1), pages 118-121, January.
    7. Silvia Lorincová & Peter Štarchoň & Dagmar Weberová & Miloš Hitka & Martina Lipoldová, 2019. "Employee Motivation as a Tool to Achieve Sustainability of Business Processes," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(13), pages 1-15, June.
    8. Shuang Ren & Yuhua Xie & Ying Zhu & Malcolm Warner, 2018. "New generation employees’ preferences towards leadership style in China," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(4), pages 437-458, August.
    9. Ahmet Alkan Çelik & Mert Kılıç & Erkut Altındağ & Volkan Öngel & Ayşe Günsel, 2021. "Does the Reflection of Foci of Commitment in Job Performance Weaken as Generations Get Younger? A Comparison between Gen X and Gen Y Employees," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(16), pages 1-19, August.
    10. Hao Chen & Chao Liu & Xinyi Cao & Bo Hong & Ding-Hau Huang & Chia-Yi Liu & Wen-Ko Chiou, 2021. "Effects of Loving-Kindness Meditation on Doctors’ Mindfulness, Empathy, and Communication Skills," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(8), pages 1-14, April.
    11. Kamal Badar & Karin Lasthuizen, 2023. "Twenty Years of Research on Millennials at Work : A Structural Review Using Bibliometric and Content Analysis," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(9), pages 1-25, April.
    12. Ping-Ju Wu & Tung-Ju Wu & Kuo-Shu Yuan, 2019. "“Green” Information Promotes Employees’ Voluntary Green Behavior via Work Values and Perceived Accountability," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(22), pages 1-16, November.
    13. Xiaobo Xu & Wenling Liu & Weiguo Pang, 2019. "Are Emotionally Intelligent People More Creative? A Meta-Analysis of the Emotional Intelligence–Creativity Link," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(21), pages 1-26, November.
    14. Lu, Jintao & Guo, Shuaishuai & Qu, Jiaojiao & Lin, Wenfang & Lev, Benjamin, 2023. "“Stay” or “Leave”: Influence of employee-oriented social responsibility on the turnover intention of new-generation employees," Journal of Business Research, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    15. Wei Wan & Ryan D. Duffy, 2022. "Decent Work and Turnover Intention Among New Generation Employees: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction and the Moderating Role of Job Autonomy," SAGE Open, , vol. 12(2), pages 21582440221, April.
    16. Maximiano Ortiz-Pimentel & Carlos Molina & Guillermo Armando Ronda-Pupo, 2020. "Bibliometric assessment of papers on generations in management and business journals," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 125(1), pages 445-469, October.
    17. Malcolm Warner, 2018. "Capitalism, without capital?," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 24(3), pages 419-424, May.
    18. Dirk De Clercq & Tasneem Fatima & Sadia Jahanzeb, 2021. "Ingratiating with Despotic Leaders to Gain Status: The Role of Power Distance Orientation and Self-enhancement Motive," Journal of Business Ethics, Springer, vol. 171(1), pages 157-174, June.
    19. Danping Shao & Erhua Zhou & Peiran Gao & Lirong Long & Jie Xiong, 2019. "Double-Edged Effects of Socially Responsible Human Resource Management on Employee Task Performance and Organizational Citizenship Behavior: Mediating by Role Ambiguity and Moderating by Prosocial Mot," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 11(8), pages 1-16, April.
    20. Bang Nguyen & Junsong Chen & David De Cremer, 2017. "When new product development fails in China: mediating effects of voice behaviour and learning from failure," Asia Pacific Business Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 23(4), pages 559-575, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:apbizr:v:24:y:2018:i:4:p:429-436. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/FAPB20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.