tailieunhanh - Strategic Cultures of Transformative Organization_5

Tham khảo tài liệu 'strategic cultures of transformative organization_5', khoa học xã hội, kinh tế chính trị phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | Development of Chinese Ị Managerial Behavior A 7-P Model based on the Forces of History and Culture Kai Cheng Yu Ping Ping Fu It is said that no single individual whatever the extent of his her knowledge could possibly know the whole truth about the Chinese Smith 1894 . 1 Nonetheless in this chapter we will attempt to do the impossible put forward a model that presents seven major characteristics of average Chinese managers and the major transformative forces in history and culture that account for those characteristics. We hope to provide some hints for ourselves as well as our foreign friends to better analyze and understand the mind and behavior of Chinese managers. We want to do this simply because nobody has done it and there is a need for such a framework. China s economic role in the world is becoming increasingly important. More and more social scientists are studying various social phenomena in China trying to understand the historical and cultural reasons that have made the Chinese somewhat different and difficult compared to the open and confident Westerners Chen 2001 . Most studies attributed the differences to the ancient Confucius and other Chinese traditional values but very few scholars have paid an adequate amount of attention to the influence of China s modern history on the Chinese people specifically the influence of the Chinese Communist Party and the various political movements Kelliher 1994 . However all of those played an important role in forming the current Chinese culture. We thank David Lamond for his help and comments. 1 Arthur H. Smith was a missionary in China. He traveled extensively and recorded what he saw over the 20 years he lived in China. His book Chinese Characteristics published in 1894 influenced the Westerners and Japanese s views of the Chinese but also the Chinese themselves. It was recently translated into Chinese and many of the characteristics he described are still remarkably similar to the current Chinese .