Diversity management in the Hong Kong Police Force : commitments, achievements and challenges concerning the employment of ethnic minorities

Abstract

Ethnic Minorities (EMs) have a long history of employment in the colonial Hong Kong government, particularly in the then Royal Hong Kong Police, before 1997. However, since the handover in 1997, the Hong Kong Special Administration Region Government has given little policy attention towards the EMs, causing social problems, including the difficulties in employment of EMs. In this project, the Hong Kong Police Force (HKPF) was taken as an example to study the commitments, achievements and challenges of EM employment at both organizational and individual levels and argue that there is a need to develop an holistic human resource management strategy on EMs and to employ more EMs in order to achieve diversity management and ensure representative bureaucracy. This project is then concluded by discussing how diversity management can be enhanced in the HKPF.