“…At the micro level, cultural values shape employees' HRM preferences and further determine the extent to which these policies will actually function effectively (Budhwar and Sparrow, 2002). In the context of China, there is much evidence that traditional Chinese cultural values have a significant influence on HRM policies and practices (Warner, 2000(Warner, , 2003Cooke, 2005;Cunningham and Rowley, 2008;Zimmerman, Liu and Buck, 2009). Moreover, as the findings indicate, many of the HRM preferences of Chinese employees are significantly different from their western counterparts.…”