Fang Lee Cooke is Distinguished Professor of HRM and Asia Studies at Monash University, Australia.Sunghoon Kim is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

"This is a unique, research-based volume which offers deep insights into HRM in Asia. Providing a multifaceted examination of HRM, encompassing cultural, legal and socio-economic perspectives, the editors are to be highly commended for a most valuable contribution to the field."Russell Lansbury, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney Business School"This book, edited by two highly acclaimed scholars, is sure to be the perfect book for learning more about HRM in Asia, at both the academic and the professional levels. To help them make the most informed book possible, the editors have gathered and coordinated an impressive team of very knowledgeable country-level experts. Clearly a book to have handy when wanting to understand what is going on in Asia today!"Randall S. Schuler, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University and University of Lucerne"To understand HRM in the modern world, we need a greater awareness of the situation in Asia. These two renowned scholars have gathered a strong team of authors and the result is a book which provides new knowledge of this crucial region – and offers insights that are useful across the world. Overall, this is a book that any serious scholar of human resource management or of business in Asia will need to have on their shelves." Chris Brewster, Professor of International Human Resource Management, Henley Business School, University of Reading

• Section 1: Institutional and cultural contexts 1. Human Resource Management in Asia in the global context, Fang Lee Cooke and Sunghoon Kim 2. State and HRM in Asia, Kyoung-Hee Yu and Sung Chul Noh 3. Confucianism and Human Resource Management in East AsiaSunghoon Kim, Pingping Fu and Jiali Duan 4. Religiosity, Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism in HRM, Mohamed Branine Section 2: Labor regulation and industrial relations 5. Employment Regulation and industrial relations system in East Asia: China, Japan and South Korea, Fang Lee Cooke, Katsuyuki Kubo and Byoung-Hoon Lee 6. Employment Regulation and Industrial Relations in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, Ingrid Landau and Fang Lee Cooke 7. Employment Regulation and Industrial Relations in South Asia, Michael Gillan Section 3: Thematic and functional HRM 8. Performance Management Practices in Asia, Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Peter Norlander 9. Innovation and Human Resource Management in Asia, Jyotsna Bhatnagar and Shweta Jaiswal Thakur 10. Leadership and Leadership Development in Asia Alex Newman, Nathan Eva and Kendall June Herbert 11. Compensation System and Pay Practices in Asia, Tae-Youn Park and Jason D. Shaw 12. Human Capital Flows and Talent Management in Asia, Anthony McDonnell and Ying Guo 13. Managing Multinational Companies in Asia, Yu Zheng and Chris Smith 14. Equal Opportunity and Workforce Diversity in AsiaAhu Tatli, Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk and Maryam Aldossari Section 4: HRM in selected Asian countries 15. Human Resource Management in Japan and South Korea, Fabian Jintae Froese, Tomoki Sekiguchi and Mohan Pyari Maharjan 16. Human Resource Management in China and Vietnam, Jie Shen and Anne Cox 17. Human Resource Management in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Shu-Yuan Chen and David Ahlstrom 18. Human Resource Management in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, Chaturong Napathorn and Sarosh Kuruvilla 19. Human Resource Management in City States: Dubai and SingaporeJulia Connell, John Burgess and Peter Waring 20. Human Resource Management in India and the Philippines, Jennifer Ann L. Lajom, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Raymund Habaradas and Cristina Esquivel-Saldivar 21. Human Resource Management in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Vathsala Wickramasinghe and Monowar H. Mahmood 22. The Future of Human Resource Management in Asia in a World of Change, Sunghoon Kim and Fang Lee Cooke

Fang Lee Cooke is Distinguished Professor of HRM and Asia Studies at Monash University, Australia.Sunghoon Kim is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

"This is a unique, research-based volume which offers deep insights into HRM in Asia. Providing a multifaceted examination of HRM, encompassing cultural, legal and socio-economic perspectives, the editors are to be highly commended for a most valuable contribution to the field."Russell Lansbury, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney Business School"This book, edited by two highly acclaimed scholars, is sure to be the perfect book for learning more about HRM in Asia, at both the academic and the professional levels. To help them make the most informed book possible, the editors have gathered and coordinated an impressive team of very knowledgeable country-level experts. Clearly a book to have handy when wanting to understand what is going on in Asia today!"Randall S. Schuler, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University and University of Lucerne"To understand HRM in the modern world, we need a greater awareness of the situation in Asia. These two renowned scholars have gathered a strong team of authors and the result is a book which provides new knowledge of this crucial region – and offers insights that are useful across the world. Overall, this is a book that any serious scholar of human resource management or of business in Asia will need to have on their shelves." Chris Brewster, Professor of International Human Resource Management, Henley Business School, University of Reading

• Section 1: Institutional and cultural contexts 1. Human Resource Management in Asia in the global context, Fang Lee Cooke and Sunghoon Kim 2. State and HRM in Asia, Kyoung-Hee Yu and Sung Chul Noh 3. Confucianism and Human Resource Management in East AsiaSunghoon Kim, Pingping Fu and Jiali Duan 4. Religiosity, Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism in HRM, Mohamed Branine Section 2: Labor regulation and industrial relations 5. Employment Regulation and industrial relations system in East Asia: China, Japan and South Korea, Fang Lee Cooke, Katsuyuki Kubo and Byoung-Hoon Lee 6. Employment Regulation and Industrial Relations in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, Ingrid Landau and Fang Lee Cooke 7. Employment Regulation and Industrial Relations in South Asia, Michael Gillan Section 3: Thematic and functional HRM 8. Performance Management Practices in Asia, Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Peter Norlander 9. Innovation and Human Resource Management in Asia, Jyotsna Bhatnagar and Shweta Jaiswal Thakur 10. Leadership and Leadership Development in Asia Alex Newman, Nathan Eva and Kendall June Herbert 11. Compensation System and Pay Practices in Asia, Tae-Youn Park and Jason D. Shaw 12. Human Capital Flows and Talent Management in Asia, Anthony McDonnell and Ying Guo 13. Managing Multinational Companies in Asia, Yu Zheng and Chris Smith 14. Equal Opportunity and Workforce Diversity in AsiaAhu Tatli, Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk and Maryam Aldossari Section 4: HRM in selected Asian countries 15. Human Resource Management in Japan and South Korea, Fabian Jintae Froese, Tomoki Sekiguchi and Mohan Pyari Maharjan 16. Human Resource Management in China and Vietnam, Jie Shen and Anne Cox 17. Human Resource Management in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Shu-Yuan Chen and David Ahlstrom 18. Human Resource Management in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, Chaturong Napathorn and Sarosh Kuruvilla 19. Human Resource Management in City States: Dubai and SingaporeJulia Connell, John Burgess and Peter Waring 20. Human Resource Management in India and the Philippines, Jennifer Ann L. Lajom, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Raymund Habaradas and Cristina Esquivel-Saldivar 21. Human Resource Management in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Vathsala Wickramasinghe and Monowar H. Mahmood 22. The Future of Human Resource Management in Asia in a World of Change, Sunghoon Kim and Fang Lee Cooke

Fang Lee Cooke is Distinguished Professor of HRM and Asia Studies at Monash University, Australia.Sunghoon Kim is Senior Lecturer in the School of Management at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

"This is a unique, research-based volume which offers deep insights into HRM in Asia. Providing a multifaceted examination of HRM, encompassing cultural, legal and socio-economic perspectives, the editors are to be highly commended for a most valuable contribution to the field."Russell Lansbury, Emeritus Professor, University of Sydney Business School"This book, edited by two highly acclaimed scholars, is sure to be the perfect book for learning more about HRM in Asia, at both the academic and the professional levels. To help them make the most informed book possible, the editors have gathered and coordinated an impressive team of very knowledgeable country-level experts. Clearly a book to have handy when wanting to understand what is going on in Asia today!"Randall S. Schuler, Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University and University of Lucerne"To understand HRM in the modern world, we need a greater awareness of the situation in Asia. These two renowned scholars have gathered a strong team of authors and the result is a book which provides new knowledge of this crucial region – and offers insights that are useful across the world. Overall, this is a book that any serious scholar of human resource management or of business in Asia will need to have on their shelves." Chris Brewster, Professor of International Human Resource Management, Henley Business School, University of Reading

• Section 1: Institutional and cultural contexts 1. Human Resource Management in Asia in the global context, Fang Lee Cooke and Sunghoon Kim 2. State and HRM in Asia, Kyoung-Hee Yu and Sung Chul Noh 3. Confucianism and Human Resource Management in East AsiaSunghoon Kim, Pingping Fu and Jiali Duan 4. Religiosity, Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism in HRM, Mohamed Branine Section 2: Labor regulation and industrial relations 5. Employment Regulation and industrial relations system in East Asia: China, Japan and South Korea, Fang Lee Cooke, Katsuyuki Kubo and Byoung-Hoon Lee 6. Employment Regulation and Industrial Relations in Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam, Ingrid Landau and Fang Lee Cooke 7. Employment Regulation and Industrial Relations in South Asia, Michael Gillan Section 3: Thematic and functional HRM 8. Performance Management Practices in Asia, Arup Varma, Pawan S. Budhwar and Peter Norlander 9. Innovation and Human Resource Management in Asia, Jyotsna Bhatnagar and Shweta Jaiswal Thakur 10. Leadership and Leadership Development in Asia Alex Newman, Nathan Eva and Kendall June Herbert 11. Compensation System and Pay Practices in Asia, Tae-Youn Park and Jason D. Shaw 12. Human Capital Flows and Talent Management in Asia, Anthony McDonnell and Ying Guo 13. Managing Multinational Companies in Asia, Yu Zheng and Chris Smith 14. Equal Opportunity and Workforce Diversity in AsiaAhu Tatli, Mustafa Bilgehan Ozturk and Maryam Aldossari Section 4: HRM in selected Asian countries 15. Human Resource Management in Japan and South Korea, Fabian Jintae Froese, Tomoki Sekiguchi and Mohan Pyari Maharjan 16. Human Resource Management in China and Vietnam, Jie Shen and Anne Cox 17. Human Resource Management in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan, Shu-Yuan Chen and David Ahlstrom 18. Human Resource Management in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand, Chaturong Napathorn and Sarosh Kuruvilla 19. Human Resource Management in City States: Dubai and SingaporeJulia Connell, John Burgess and Peter Waring 20. Human Resource Management in India and the Philippines, Jennifer Ann L. Lajom, Simon Lloyd D. Restubog, Mendiola Teng-Calleja, Raymund Habaradas and Cristina Esquivel-Saldivar 21. Human Resource Management in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Vathsala Wickramasinghe and Monowar H. Mahmood 22. The Future of Human Resource Management in Asia in a World of Change, Sunghoon Kim and Fang Lee Cooke