Monday, March 6, 2017

Employment Relations at Chinese and American Firms in Kenya

The China Africa Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University published in February 2017 a study titled "We Are Not So Different: A Comparative Study of Employment Relations at Chinese and American Firms in Kenya" by Zander Rounds and Hongxiang Huang.

The paper explores the extent to which labor conditions at Chinese firms in Kenya are a function of firm nationality, as opposed to other characteristics like industry, firm size or length of time operating abroad. The authors concluded that many Chinese and American managers hold similar attitudes towards the qualities and limitations of their Kenyan employees although they express these attitudes in different ways.