Archive for the ‘China Labor Issues’ Category
Wednesday, December 20th, 2006
Western employers that want to hire local Chinese should be mindful of just how “local” the Chinese are. That an employee is from China is not quite local enough. That an employee speaks Chinese will not be enough, either. Companies lose Chinese employees everyday to the simple reason that the ...
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Last night a buddy of mine who is a General Manager (GM) in Suzhou told me another buddy of ours had made a startling discovery in talking with a Chinese HR manager: it can pay big to be a Chinese HR manager in China. How big? Bigger than some expat ...
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Monday, November 27th, 2006
A friend who manages a factory in Suzhou sent me a copy of an email bulletin he sent out to his staff:
"Please make sure all operators / Chemists / Shift Leaders are wearing the
correct PPE. This means when they are using visors they have the visor
down covering their ...
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Wednesday, September 27th, 2006
A Latin American friend of mine runs an American manufacturing facility in the Suzhou Industrial Park. The facility has about two hundred employees now, and will likely have another one hundred before year's end.
We talked about a situation I had described in a previous entry in which another friend ...
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Thursday, August 31st, 2006
Yesterday I shared a story of a General Manager friend of mine that shed some light on the murky happenings of today’s China HR market.
The story of the recruitment scam reminded me of an episode that happened early on in the Kunshan operation of an American client. One of the ...
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Wednesday, August 30th, 2006
I always like to ask the audiences of Chinese Business talks I give if they can tell me the meaning of the Chinese expression: “If the Water is Too Clean, There Can Be Few Fish.” (how about you, dear reader?)
The basic message of the Chinese saying is that if there ...
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Wednesday, August 16th, 2006
Despite all my griping about escalating salaries for young Chinese professionals in China, there is a disturbing fact that is difficult to igore: most Chinese are severely underpaid in their jobs. Lets' face it, the manufacturing model is built on a pyramid of bodies with the CEO on top, a ...
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Thursday, July 20th, 2006
A couple days ago I had lengthy conversations with friends who run factories in Suzhou. The conversations were held separately, and yet the concerns were nearly identical: foreign-invested companies - mostly Western - were inflating wages in the Yangtze River Delta through negligence, ignorance and laziness.
One friend, a European, ...
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Monday, July 17th, 2006
A friend is a General Manager (GM) of a small manufacturing company located in the Suzhou Industrial Park. Small in this case is about 30 people. His chief financial officer recently notified him she is leaving his company for another company that is paying nearly 40% more salary than his ...
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Wednesday, July 12th, 2006
The China Economic Review cited in its 10 July 2006 article:
Some companies operating in China lose one in five top managers every year, according to a recent survey by the Economist Intelligence Unit and Heidrick & Struggles. The results, reported by the Financial Times, estimate top managers in China ...
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