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100			_aZhang, Zhibin
245			_aCrowding out meritocracy? cultural constraints in Chinese public human resource management
260			_c2015
300			_ap.270-282.
362			_aSep
520			_aThis paper seeks cultural explanations of the pervasive norm violations against the principle of meritocracy in Chinese public human resource management especially at local levels. It reveals that a bureaucratic culture of patrimonial individualism, including favouritism, nepotism, localism, and factionalism prevailing within Chinese officialdom as the ethos, value, psychological disposition, and behavioural orientation of civil servants, has undermined the development in China of a modern meritocracy-based civil service system. With 14 case studies, this research demonstrates that the Chinese civil service institutions, derived from an opposite culture of hierarchical collectivism, failed to address the cultural constraints over the implementation of the meritocracy principle. The conceptual framework, as well as the case findings, points to legislative and policy reforms in China that would address the problems derived from the unique Chinese bureaucratic culture through further institutional design and capacity building. - Reproduced.
650			_aTechnocracy - China
650			_aHuman resources development - China
650			_aCivil service - China
650			_aCivil service
773			_aAustralian Journal of Public Administration
909			_a109248
999			_c109243 _d109243