Human Resource Management Research Of Taiwan (1996～2005)

This article analyzes HRM trend in Taiwan by reviewing 131 human resource journal articles. Source of the articles are predominantly collected from 6 local management journals during years of 1996 till 2005. We mainly examine the representative trends by using human resource functional typology and divide into 8 categories. Concerning development trends, HRM researches have steady tendency in recently Years. Stable quantity of papers was published in the categories of "Compensation", "Training and Development", "International Human Resource Management" and "Human Resource Planning" over the years. However, articles published in the categories of "Strategic Human Resource Management" and "Recruitment and selection" grow rapidly in recent years. From the quantitative aspect, papers categorize in "Training and Development" outnumbers all other categories. Then comes "International Human Resource Management" also consist of relative quantity of papers in those categories. Finally, least amount of articles is categorized in "Performance Management". From the journal aspect, the ratio of human resource research between all research continues to progress from 1998. "Training and Development" and "International human resource management" are the most popular topics between journals. "Sun Yat-sen Management Review" and "Journal of Human Resource Management" have the most human resource papers comparing to other journals.