The Construction of High Performance Work System for China Railway Transportation Industry

Recent years, the impact of high performance work system (HPWS) has been widely explored by examining the effects of the specific systems. The main focus of this study is to explore the construction of these advanced management practices in the China railway transportation industry. The data are collected from employees' perspective in Harbin railway transportation industry and show that the organization displays some of the human resource practices associated with HPWS which are labeled information sharing, recruitment and selection, employee empowerment, incentive compensation, and performance appraisal. The major contribution of this study is to establish the frame of HPWS and he foundation of future analysis of human resource management in the China railway transportation context.