1 / 10

Management

Management. Question: Private schools are prohibited in China to emphasize equality in education. True or False?. Management. Answer: False Government works with public and private education systems in attempts to increase access and options for schooling.

delta
Download Presentation

Management

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Management • Question: • Private schools are prohibited in China to emphasize equality in education. • True or False?

  2. Management • Answer:False • Government works with public and private education systems in attempts to increase access and options for schooling. • 2003:Law on Promotion of Private Education • 2005: 79,000 private and 110,000+ public

  3. Management • Cultural Revolution (1966 – 1975) • Attempted to erase aspects government believed to contribute to inequality, including traditional merits of academia • Created a generation that • was poorly educated • academically

  4. Management • Post-Cultural Revolution (late 1970’s and beyond) • Goals geared towards opening-up and development • Fading norm of lifelong employment and the Iron Rice Bowl • Idea of HRM had little formal importance • Funding channelled to science and technology • Staffing largely relied on guanxi • Evaluating the competence of a candidate based on the knowledge of him/her through relationship

  5. Management • Period of economic growth in the 90’s hid staffing problems • High turnovers; difficult retention • Employees compared jobs almost solely on pay compensation • Less value on job development opportunities • MBA’s and other professional qualifications viewed simply as status symbols Amounted to added costs but not necessarily benefits for an organization

  6. Management • Increasing government focus on improving workforce quality • Policy focus: education access, technical training, vocational qualification system • 1999, called for social sectors to put emphasis on recognizing these qualifications • Setting ambitious goals of increasing population with higher level education • College graduates: • 1999 – 1million 2010 – 6.3million Graduates from Jinan University at a job fair in Guangzhou

  7. Management • Worker Categories • Survivors – experienced and skilled, knowing their market value • Worried Young – averagely educated, abundant in supply • Discouraged Old – less educated, looking towards retirement • High volumes of graduates with mismatched skills and high expectations • Not enough professional positions • Employees demanding more advancement opportunities • No longer satisfied with waiting to move up based on accumulating years of loyalty

  8. Management • Question: • Foreign recruits are highly sought after and compensated much more generously than local hires in China. • True or False?

  9. Management • Answer:True • However, this gap is quickly diminishing due to: • Growing supply of highly educated young locals • Rising local standard of living

  10. Management Local vs. Foreign • English is an asset • Foreign or foreign trained recruits viewed as more qualified and were paid more • Compensation gap is narrowing in recent years • Still hiring from the West, but compensation packages are much more comparable to locals • Today the key is a background that understands Chinese and Western influences – fitting beneficial business techniques of the West into Chinese context

More Related