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Abstract—the paper discussed the status and countermeasures of resources service industry. United Kingdom’s classification
human resources service industry development in China based criteria is a little different from America’s, which puts
on the comparative study. We collected data from existing employment and training related human resources service into
literature and opened the comparative study from five aspects: “enterprise management and management consulting”
comparison of the size of the industry, comparison of operating category belonged to “other business services”. Singapore
mechanism, comparison of human capital, comparison of brand allocates human resources service industry in the following
strategy and comparison of policy support. At last we proposed categories: human resources consulting service, employment
several suggestions from three aspects. service and profession and management development training.
Although the domestic and international researches on human
Keywords- human resources service industry; comparative
study; valaue chain
resources service industry had no uniform definition of
conclusion, the scope of which included the common
components of human resources management consulting
I. INTRODUCTION services, employment services and training services [2]. “White
Human resources service industry is one of the important paper for human resources service industry in China 2010”
forms of modern service industries with high-tech, high value- pointed out that there were six categories of human resources
added, high human capital and high growth characteristics, service industry: the state-owned service enterprises, joint
which has a strong effects on other industries. Currently, ventures, and private service enterprises, the personnel system
human resource services industry in Europe and other of institutions, working systems and institutions, dedicated
developed countries have made rapid development and made a human resources services [3].
greater contribution to the economic growth. The paper
discussed the status and countermeasures of human resources B. Value Chain of Human Resources Service Industry
service industry development in China based on the Value chain was proposed by Porter in 1985, which
comparative study. contained two kinds of activities: support activities and basic
activities. In the paper, we applied the original value chain into
II. DEFINITION OF HUMAN RESOURCES SERVICE the study of human resources service, and constructed the
INDUSTRY value chain of human resources service industry, showed in
Fig.1. The basic activities include six modules: human
A. Definition resource planning, recruitment and allocation, training
Domestic scholar Baipeng (2004) divided human resources development, compensation benefits, performance
services industry into narrow and broad scope. The narrow management and staff relationship. These six modules are
scope defined human resources service industry as head- essential for human resource management. The six modules
hunting company and labor market. Head-hunting companies are correlated with each other in value, and the integration of
provided service for senior personnel, and labor markets them has synergetic effect. The support activities contain
provided service primarily for junior and intermediate marketing, informatization and R&D. Marketing activities help
personnel. The broad scope was made up of professional enterprises find unsatisfied needs, define and measure the size
human resources consulting firms and management consulting and profit potential of target markets, and locate in the best
companies. They provided strategic and operational service [1]. segmentation. Informatization activities help enterprises
Wangyi (2007) made a summary of foreign human resources realize the integration of each module and the general
service industry, and pointed out that the definition of foreign information of enterprise management on the basis of
human resources service industry was mainly based on standardized data and information sharing platform. R&D
statistical standards. The North American countries make activities help enterprises create new markets, new products
administrative and general management consulting service, and new service to maintain long-term profits.
human resources and senior management executive search
consulting services, employment service, and profession and
management development training into the range of human
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According to the investigation of Shanghai human as FESCO, China star corp., www.zhaopin.com and so on. But
resources consulting association in 2010, the education these companies are only serving at domestic home, and lack
background of employees in human resources service industry competition with foreign human resources services giants.
was junior college or regular college course, showed in Fig.3. Many other small and medium enterprises were lack brand-
The number of enterprises with junior college or regular building and competitiveness.
college course between 80%-100% was 29 (accounted for 58%
of the total).The number of enterprises with junior college or E. Comparison of policy support
regular college course between 60%-80% was 15 (accounted Human resources service industries in developed countries
for 30% of the total). The number of enterprises with junior have been developing for almost 60 years, and formed a
college or regular college course between 40%-60% and 20%- favorable external market environment. Government created a
40% was 5 (accounted for 10% of the total) and 1 (accounted good business development and fair competition environment.
for 2% of the total). We also found out that the number of There is orderly competition within the industry.
employees who owned the master degree was small, and the
number of employees who owned the degree below junior In contrast, human resources service in China has not yet
college was small too. formed a unified and standardized labor market. The
development environment of human resources service still
Survey results also showed that most employees had the needs to improve. Firstly, there is lack of unified management,
professional qualification certificates of talent agency division which is the overall planning of management system,
and human resources management division. Most employees development planning and legal regulation. At the same time,
have a professional background (Human Resource there is lack of standard market order. One is legal norms, and
Management graduate) or received human resources training the other is industry standard service specification. Secondly,
and certification authorities. We also found out that in existing the legal environment of human resources service market is
employees there were lack of senior consultants, market not perfect. Legislation needed to speed up in human resources
operation personnel and business management personnel. service market. The existing “Labor Law”, “Labor Contract
Therefore, in the level of human capital competition, our Law” and “Employment Promotion Law” provided a legal
human resources service industry is still at the early stage, the base for the management of human resources service market.
quality of employees is generally low and is lack of high talent But there are no dedicated human resources market regulations,
competition. and the introduction of “human resources service market
regulations” is urgently needed.
EHORZ
IV. COUNTERMEASURES AND SUGGESTIONS
According to the analysis stated above, we proposed some
countermeasures and suggestions to develop the human
resources service industry in China.
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information management. In order to change the situation, our
human resources service needs to increase efforts in building
the hardware and software facilities.
Secondly, domestic human resources service firms need to
strengthen the cultivation of human resources service
commissioner, especially the senior consultant, marketing
developers and senior management personnel. These people
will fill the blank of domestic human resources service
enterprises’ capabilities to serve the higher needs.
Thirdly, domestic human resources service firms need to
accelerate the capital operation. Domestic human resources
service firms need to expand scale through capital operation.
For example, www.51job.com introduced 8 million
international venture capital, and now become the biggest
recruitment service providers with “newspaper jobs
advertisement + recruitment site + headhunters + human
resource software development” in one. In 2000, its annual
income was 8 million and the margin profit was as high as
15%.
Fourthly, domestic human resources service firms need to
accelerate the brand building and try to build domestic
“aircraft carrier”. In order to gain three brands, domestic
enterprises need to provide High-quality services. Human
resources services abroad have been able to guarantee high
quality, largely due to its standardized service processes and
norms.
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