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Chinese employees value group work and cooperation. Group cohesiveness and
responsibility is considered essential and beneficial in a work setting. Tasks
are most often completed in groups. Employees tend to be more loyal to specific
managers than to the organization. This behavior may have emerged from historic
China, where formal authority was in the hands of humans, not laws or positions.
Rewards and recognition tend to be allocated more frequently to group work
rather than individual work (Weldon and Vanhonacker, 1999). China is a highly collectivist society, while Westerners value individualism and independence. In Chinese business culture, employee’s relationships and interpersonal strengths help define personal achievement and growth. This being true, social guidelines help mold behavior and expectations of others are significant. This strong social emphasis is facilitated by the use of teams in several aspects of Chinese organizational culture (Beamer, 1998). |
