On the Basis and Predicament of Applying Organizational Support Theory to Chinese Public Human Resource Management

Abstract

Organizational Support Theory emphasizes on the concerns and attentions of organizations to employees. It can arouse employees’ a sense of obligation to help organizations to reach objectives, enhancing employees’ emotional commitments to organizations, and make employees dedicate to organizations willingly. At present, this theory has already been studied and applied to Chinese enterprises’ human resource development and management field. But seldom does it be referenced by the public management field. This paper, by introducing the Organizational Support Theory, tries to analyze the basis of taking reference from the Organizational Support Theory for Chinese public human resource management and the possible predicaments, with the hope of founding a base for further studies on this subject.