The Foreign Entreprenuers Blog says:
I recently attended an event hosted by Servcorp Shanghai where Christian Groeger and Valourie Xuan, from Fiducia Management Consultants, delivered a presentation entitled “Winning the Talent War (in China) in 2011”.
High staff rotation is a big challenge for companies in China. Mr. Groeger approached the “talent war” drivers from both the employee and the employer’s perspective. Today I reproduce here Mr. Groeger’s insights about drivers and external influences from the employee’s perspective:
1. Problems with supervisors and leadershipThis is a universal driver, which usually does not get that much attention because people are usually not that honest about their personal feelings. Interpersonal problems are easily compounded in intercultural (foreigner/local, returnee/local) settings.
2. Work-Life ImbalanceThis issue is rapidly gaining importance, especially with younger employees – the generation born in the 90’s or 90后 (jiu-ling-hou) as they are called in China. Members of this generation tend to be more self-conscious and have higher expectations about life than their parents generation.
Read more here:
http://www.foreignentrepreneursinchina.com/2011/04/10-reasons-why-your-chinese-employee-is-leaving-you/
I recently attended an event hosted by Servcorp Shanghai where Christian Groeger and Valourie Xuan, from Fiducia Management Consultants, delivered a presentation entitled “Winning the Talent War (in China) in 2011”.
High staff rotation is a big challenge for companies in China. Mr. Groeger approached the “talent war” drivers from both the employee and the employer’s perspective. Today I reproduce here Mr. Groeger’s insights about drivers and external influences from the employee’s perspective:
1. Problems with supervisors and leadershipThis is a universal driver, which usually does not get that much attention because people are usually not that honest about their personal feelings. Interpersonal problems are easily compounded in intercultural (foreigner/local, returnee/local) settings.
2. Work-Life ImbalanceThis issue is rapidly gaining importance, especially with younger employees – the generation born in the 90’s or 90后 (jiu-ling-hou) as they are called in China. Members of this generation tend to be more self-conscious and have higher expectations about life than their parents generation.
Read more here:
http://www.foreignentrepreneursinchina.com/2011/04/10-reasons-why-your-chinese-employee-is-leaving-you/
