現代の中国においては改革・開放政策以降、外資系企業の急増と急速な中国経済の発展などによって、企業の人材に対する需要が増え続けてきている。しかし、労働力人口が豊富である一方で、企業が必要とする職務能力を持った人材は不足している。この状況において、中国企業間の人材獲得の競争はますます激しくなっており、従来の中国企業の人事管理から企業戦略にもとづく人材開発、つまり人的資源管理が広がってきている。
本論文では中国での合弁企業としての広州本田の事例を通じて、人的資源管理の思想を明らかにするとともに、中国企業への業績主義の導入の可能性について考察している。
本論文では（１）この業績主義の生成背景とその内容を考察し、（２）日本の本田における業績主義への移行を把握し、その上で（３）本田の業績主義がどのように中国の広州本田に浸透しているのか、そしてその意義と問題点は何かを明らかにしている。
Today in China, demand for talented people of enterprises has kept increasing since the open door and economic reform policy, because the policy brought rapid inflow of foreign capital, high growth rate of national economy and harsh competition among enterprises under "the socialistic market economy" . While labor force is abundant in China, talented people with up-to-date scientific knowledge and skill are too short to satisfy the needs of human power for economic development.
Under the circumstances, traditional personnel administration system could not cope effectively with tight labor market, and it has been transformed to human resources management (HRM) which enable enterprise to develop human resources based on corporate strategy.
In this paper (which was presented by the author as a dissertation for the doctoral degree of management at Momoyama-gakuin University), the movement for HRM in Mainland China is analyzed together with the theoretical and historical background of the rise of the idea in Japan and US. The study case of Guangzhou Honda is presented to show interested reader the further details about HRM in China .
Major arguments and findings of this study are briefly outlined as follows.
(1) To deliberate the historical and theoretical backdrop of the idea of HRM and the contents of Merit system base on it.
(2) To grasp the contents, process and gist of transition to the Merit system in Honda in Japan
(3) How Honda's Merit system was transferred into Guangzhou Honda in China: What practical and theoretical significance can be drawn from the case.