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Call for Reviewers

This journal is currently seeking to appoint subject experts on to its panel of reviewers.

The Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management (JCHRM) is the first journal to cater for a steadily-increasing number of researchers, practitioners and University lecturers focusing on a crucial field: the management of one fifth of the world’s workforce in China and the surrounding regions of Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. Now in its second volume, the publication of JCHRM comes at a time when Chinese Human Resource Management theory, research and practices have global implications. JCHRM will publish peer-reviewed content on Human Resource Management in Chinese companies in China and overseas, as well as studies on international MNCs operating in China. Through the publication of the latest findings in the field, JCHRM aims to contribute to the promotion and development of efficient, effective and fulfilled workforces and to the enhancement of firm performance.

The Journal of Chinese Human Resource Management publishes:

• High-quality academic research papers
• Comparative studies
• Applied research articles
• Case studies
• Book reviews.

The journal also welcomes papers discussing and critiquing human resource management pedagogy as a way to serve to increase the practical value of the journal and to promote teaching excellence and learning experience in the field.

JCHRM focuses on:
• HRM in Chinese companies in China
• HRM in Chinese companies overseas
• HRM in international MNCs doing business in China, including comparative studies involving practices in other parts of the world

Coverage will include, but will not be limited to:
• Labour legislation and labour relations
• Cross-cultural HRM
• Professionalization of HRM
• Compensation systems and remuneration schemes
• HRM in a transitional economy
• HRM and leadership
• HRM in foreign-invested enterprises
• Job analysis and job design
• Recruitment and selection
• Performance management
• Training and career development
• Human resource planning
• Gender in HRM
• HRM in the private- and state-owned sectors
• HRM policy-making
• Electronic HRM
• HRM is SMEs
• Strategic HRM
• HRM education and curriculum design

Reviewers are an integral part of any journal’s success, ensuring that the papers published are of the highest quality. It is understood that no one reviewer will be expected to review more than two or three papers per year. If you are interested in joining our team of reviewers, please forward a CV, along with a list of your areas of expertise, to:

Editor Professor Greg Wang at JCHRM2010@aol.com