ABSTRACT Title¡GCross-Cultural comparison of work value and culture value between Australian and Chinese from China Pages: 82 total Author: Mr. Liao Cheng Hui Advisor: Professor Zhiao Bi Xiao In order to increasing the competitive advantage after joining WTO of both Taiwan and China¡Ahuman resources have been paid higher attention. The competition between companies will depend on which will have superior talents. Facing the globalize environment, we should understand the differences of work values and culture values between target countries. We took the questionnaires from Australian and Chinese working in Australia, also comparing with Chinese working in China in order to fit the cross-cultural research. Based on descriptive statistics analysis, factor analysis, reliability, path analysis and stepwise regression, our finding as as following¡G (6) Among personal characteristics, gender, age, job position, working years and level of education are significant to the variation of work value. (7) Among personal characteristics, gender, age, job position, working years and level of education are significant to the variation of culture value. (8) Among personal characteristics, age, job position, working years and level of education are significant to the variation of job involvement. (9) Nationality is significant to the variation of work value, culture value and job involvement. Comparing to Australian, Chinese (no matter working in Australia or in China) is with more constructive attitude in work value and job involvement. (10) Comparing to the country culture, there are deeper effects from enterprise culture to the employees in work value and job involvement.

The main aim of this work is to analyze Human Resources Management in a concrete company and to suggest steps, based on this analysis, to improve the situation. Topic of this work was chosen because Human Resources Management is very actual and developing subject. This work is based on study of professional literature and analysis of Human Resource Management in company A. This information is supplemented by Value Survey Module Questionnaire 94 by Geert Hofstede. Based on this part of work there were suggested some steps to improve the situation concerning Internet advertising, evaluation interviews, changing of company culture, vision and mission, coaching, creating of new job, visiting "Jobday" in České Budějovice and improvement of communication. Some of these suggestions are closely connected to each other.