On June 19, the International Journal of Conflict Management (IJCM) Special Issue Conference was held in the Institute of Quality Development Strategy. Prof. Zhuanghai Shen, the Deputy Secretary of Wuhan University CPC Party Committee, Prof. Richard A. Posthuma, editor of IJCM, professor of management at the University of Texas at El Paso, Prof. Hong Cheng, Director of the Institute of Quality Development Strategy, Ms Tachia Chin, guest editor of IJCM China issue and Associate Professor of Hangzhou Dianzi University attended the opening ceremony of the conference.
At the opening ceremony, Prof. Shen extended a warm welcome to the arrival of the participants. In his speech, he remarked that IQDS has always been an excellent practitioner of WHU’s internationalization strategy in the process of building a world-class university. The commencement of IJCM Special Issue Conference reflected the growing international influence of IQDS in the field of economic quality development research.
Prof. Posthuma expressed his gratitude to the IQDS for organizing this meeting. He mentioned that IJCM is not only a platform for publishing and quoting papers, it can also contributes to the theoretical research. In the future, the IJCM will work with IQDS on the conflict management of Chinese enterprises and serve as a broader platform for academic exchanges.
At the conference, Prof. Hong Cheng published a keynote speech entitled "Research on Conflict of Management Based on the Increase of Labor Cost in China - Empirical Evidence from “China Employer-Employee Survey" (CEES). He analyzed the conflict between "management and employees" from seven aspects in the process of China's economic transformation and upgrading. The policy support, survey method, quality control and implementation methods of CEES are introduced from the perspective of theoretical background, measurement method and statistical data. Through CEES data, the management conflict between China's labor and capital in the transitional period is thoroughly analyzed from the perspective of rising labor costs, structural changes in the labor market and the manager's viewpoint.
The conference was divided into seven parallel forums. Dozens of leading authors from Peking University, Tsinghua University, Xiamen University and other prestigious universities worked in small groups and discussed about the conflict in China during its transition. Specifically, they focused on the conflict in China's economic development model, economic development and social governance, the conflict between urban and rural residents under the household register system, labor shortage and the upgrading of human resource, income distribution and transformation of domestic demand and so on. Prof. Richard A. Posthuma, editor of IJCM and Professor Hong Cheng, guest editor, Ms Tachia Chin, Associate Professor and Ph.D. in HRM served as the advisers of the journal.