Challenges in retraining workers laid-off by state-owned enterprises in China: findings from a field inquiry

Wang, Bingxin, Lewis, Ramon, and Greenwood, Kenneth Mark (2012) Challenges in retraining workers laid-off by state-owned enterprises in China: findings from a field inquiry. Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 64 (3). pp. 279-293.

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Abstract

This article addresses one of the many sensitive and challenging problems generated by China's era of reform and economic growth: the need to retrain or educate laid-off (displaced) workers from state owned enterprises (SOEs). It does so to provide valuable insight for those responsible for the changes associated with the move to the current market economy, necessitating the retraining of large numbers of their population in a short period of time. Had this been achieved, it would have been an extraordinary accomplishment. It was not. The programs ran into at least one fundamental obstacle: laid-off workers overwhelmingly were not participating in them. Both Chinese training officials and scholars have asserted that the problem was a lack of the 'right mentality' among laid-off workers. However, this article reports data collected from interviews with laid-off workers in Zhangjiakou city, China which challenges that conventional wisdom.

Item ID: 40599
Item Type: Article (Research - C1)
ISSN: 1747-5090
Keywords: laid-off workers; state-owned enterprises; retraining program
Date Deposited: 28 Sep 2015 23:38
FoR Codes: 15 COMMERCE, MANAGEMENT, TOURISM AND SERVICES > 1502 Banking, Finance and Investment > 150205 Investment and Risk Management @ 50%
17 PSYCHOLOGY AND COGNITIVE SCIENCES > 1701 Psychology > 170107 Industrial and Organisational Psychology @ 50%
SEO Codes: 91 ECONOMIC FRAMEWORK > 9104 Management and Productivity > 910401 Industrial Relations @ 100%
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