Question

Case Study: Foreign investment in Chinese Banking sector, HR challenges
QUESTION: in this case you have the following problems:
1) Problems related to cross culture approach (Chinese style) :
-Relatuonships
-life overlapping
-Fast and Task oriented
-Woman employee
2) Problems related to HR (Chinese HR practices):
-interviews are not common yet
-The ranges of wages and salaries are narrow.
-Supervisor authority in evaluation
- collective leadership.

DISCUSS AND EXPLAIN each one of them from the case.

Answer 1

1) The Chinese culture has uncertain values. This includes loyalty to families and developing interpersonal relationships. This shows that the people are less believe in the relationship building in the workplaces or with the families than work but they have to maintain a strong coordination between them. The Chinese peoples are very sensitive in maintaining faces. They do not appreciate until the work is extremely good. They behave in the very rude manner sometimes. The relationships would be broken if the faces are not maintained. The real faces would not be shown to anyone. Open criticism is unappreciated in the society.

The Chinese management style is based on the relationship building and trust. There is the strong overlapping between professional and personal life. But they can’t able to maintain these relationships as because of criticism. Although they know how to proceed but it is very tough to maintain the faces as they are very sensitive in this case.

Although the Chinese organizations have the accurate time planner but they juggle the demand and are extremely flexibility. They are fast and task oriented but they are less in the developing the relationship with the foreign organizations. This would impact the business as the new technological changes across the world can be less adapted by the Chinese organization which would make them little behind the success. Although the fast and task-oriented life is good for the competition but it steadily destroys the relationships and makes the people less ethical.

The Chinese banks or organizations has very less women employees and leaders in the business. Whenever the downsizing or restructuring occurs in the organization the women are fist to laid off.

2) In the china the interview is not common yet as the employees are hired or selected by Government or universities on the basis of credentials. It is purely based on the decision of the government who can be best suitable for the job. Here there may be partiality as per the economics conditions of the candidate. The weaker section may not get the opportunity as the education level may not up to the mark.

The ranges of salaries differ with the differ in the skill sets. The workers which has higher skill sets only can demand the higher pay. The country has more unemployed and uneducated workers in the industrial field. So, they get less salary as per the skill sets. This is because the over population and unemployed people. They did not get bonus based on the performance. This discourages the employees.

In the Chinese organisation there is the hierarchical of the supervision. The senior has the authority and power to evaluate the performance of the subordinate. This would develop a centralised structure and line od control. But it is not much effective because it does not always judge the people with the performance. It may be varying according to the relationship and it may be create discrimination among the employees. The employees always ha to follow the command of the superior. His perspective can’t be analysed as the workers viewpoints are not considered in the organisations.

The Chinese organisation follows the collective leadership style. The collective leadership is good for the organisation but when it comes to achieve the goal of the company it deteriorates the process to achieve the goals of the company. As the individual needs has variations so they can’t be fulfilled all the time. The company has to balance with both of them. It sometimes arises the conflicts in the view points of the leaders.