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How To Treat Your China Employees. I Dunno.

By Dan Harris and Steve Dickinson

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Interesting article by James Hudson over at China Success Stories. Article is entitled, "Want Committed Employees? Learn to Trust Them." Its thesis is that if you want your Chinese employee to work hard for the company, like the company, and do what he or she can for the company, you, as the company, must show real faith in your employee. And this faith includes trusting your employee to handle responsibilities and to give them the freedom they need to succeed. In the US law firm context, I 100% agree. This totally encapsulates my management philosophy, which is essentially that the key is hiring good people and then letting them go. The employee I have to monitor is an employee I do not want. Just get the job done. But, is this the right employer philosophy for China? For all businesses in China? For some businesses in China? I do not know the answers to these questions because the closest I have come to managing Chinese employees is managing Chinese lawyers whom I hire to work with me on China legal matters. What do you think?

Full post as published by China Law Blog on November 27, 2008 (boomark / email).