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One of the strategic issues in human resource management (HRM) research is the recognition of HR professionals' roles, yet how effective HR professionals are performing these roles has seldom been studied. This article conducts a two-phase study to explore the role expectations, role effectiveness and discrepancies of HR professionals in the Chinese business context. In the first phase, six roles in three domains were determined using a qualitative method. In the second phase, hypotheses were proposed and tested empirically. The results highlight that the value of role effectiveness is significantly lower than that of role expectation. In terms of perceptive discrepancies between HR and non-HR individuals, significant differences exist on the expectations of the roles in the strategic domain (i.e. facilitator and supporter), and also on the effectiveness of the roles in all three domains, except for that of facilitator in the strategic domain. The results also indicate that the effectiveness of each different role has a distinctive weighting in explaining the overall effectiveness of HRM, and that different groups hold diverse views on the relationship between role effectiveness and overall effectiveness. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article examines a virtual commemorative artefact called "The Search for Modern China" to consider the evolution of celebrity in the People's Republic of China (PRC). It highlights the launch of a website by Internet media company Sohu.to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC under the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on October 1, 1949. It also provides links to webpages that celebrate the history and combines achievements of the party.

The present study examined the framing effect of two modes of idolatry among a sample of 1095 secondary school students in Hong Kong and Shenzhen. Two experimental conditions were set up: in the glamour frame condition, subjects were exposed to frames that enhanced perfection and mystification of idols' personal or ideological characteristics; in the achievement frame condition, subjects were exposed to frames that enhanced emulation and identification of idols' pro-social behaviours or desirable dispositional traits. The experiment selected a prominent pop music and movie star well known in Chinese societies, Andy Lau, as the target idol. Subjects showed a consistently and significantly greater desire to glorify, idealize, identify with, emulate, and attach to Andy Lau in the achievement frame condition than in the glamour frame condition. The finding suggests that an achievement frame can heighten young people's adoration of an idol by emphasizing the idol's achievement processes. This suggestion is favourable to the possibility of transforming an idol into a role model for young people to learn to pursue career success. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The purpose of the study was to better understand what undergraduate students in hospitality and tourism management (HTM) in China expected from their future career. Different types of career goals and expectations were examined. A sample of 503 undergraduate students from HTM programs at four different universities in China was surveyed. Results showed that a majority of the undergraduate students were interested in pursuing a career in the hospitality and tourism industry and expressed a desire for an advanced degree. Students reported a variety of topics learned during their HTM studies that proved valuable for their future careers. The topics most reported were management, marketing, economics, tourism psychology, introduction to tourism, industrial practices, English, service attitude, and communication. No interest in the hospitality and tourism industry was cited by the students as the major reason they did not want to enter the industry. Opportunities for personal development and high salaries were found to be the most important goals for students to pursue after graduation. Implications for hospitality and tourism educators and industry employers are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents a comparative study on the differences in the gender-role attitudes of the people in China and Taiwan. The gender-role attitudes of the study were structured from the theoretical perspectives: gendered self-interest, parental role model, family dependence, and societal gender socialization. It demonstrates the need to unite gender in the interpretation of societal difference in gender-role attitudes as the socio-economic conditions have affected education in coastal China and the urbanization in Taiwan.

AIM: The purpose of this study is to review and delineate the impact in terms of the perceived importance as well as the role components of nurse specialists in Hong Kong. RATIONALE: The Nurse Specialist Scheme was launched in 1994 in Hong Kong. Studies in the West showed that there were impacts on the roles of other members among the health care team. However, minimal local published work has been carried out in reviewing the scheme. DESIGN: The design of the study was nonexperimental. Data were collected by self-administered questionnaires. The questionnaire adopted was developed by O'Mullan (1995), and the five roles studied were administration, clinical practice, consultation, education and research. To ensure the contextual relevancy and consistency of the questionnaire, content validity and test-retest reliability tests were performed. The content validity index was 0.85 and the test-retest reliability (Spearman's rho coefficient) ranged from 0.57 to 0.97. Subjects were obtained by stratified convenience sampling technique. The ratios for subject selection among the doctors, ward managers, nursing officers and registered nurses were 3:1:3:10, respectively. Because of the small numbers for nurse specialists, they were all included in the study. The final sample consisted of 11 nurse specialists, 47 ward managers, 56 nursing officers, 110 registered nurses and 15 doctors (n=239). RESULTS: The results showed that there were significant differences in the perceptions of importance of the administration, clinical practice, education and research roles, and the frequency of occurrence of the clinical practice and research roles. This was further verified by the Fisher's Least Significant Differences (LSD) test. CONCLUSIONS: A regulatory system of the nurse specialist was recommended to monitor the development of the nurse specialist role and practice and to ensure the safety of the public with regard to the emerging role. Both the implications and limitations are discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]