Hello, every
one!
I am happy to
share my working experiences with you. I have worked in an international
company, and I was responsible for supporting Europe companies’ monthly
closing. There are significant differences between China and Europe. Usually,
Chinese junior staffs always work extra hour, and managers often work much
harder than their subordinates. This is a very common phenomenon, because
employees in companies are always expected to work harder. If you leave office
on time every day, you manager will assign more tasks to you to raise your
workload. Moreover, there are numbers of meetings each month and every employee
need to regularly summarize their working performances and report to their
managers. In addition, we always follow managers’ demands and there are not many
spaces to negotiate. This is also supported by Zhang (2011), hierarchy in
Chinese companies always reflects quite clear, executive level will never discuss
important issues with lower ranking employee. However, on the other hand, my colleagues
in European companies work much easier than us. They need not to work extra
hours and they can leave offices by 5:00 every day, and their working pressure
are much smaller than us. What is more,
they can express their dissatisfactory and demands and they can safeguard their
rights very well. In addition, they can say “no” directly if they think they
cannot finish these tasks on schedule time, which will not threat their job
because this is their culture. However, if in China, people often “reserved
about their feelings” (Zhang, 2011). Thus, we should understand people doing business
in different way is caused by their different cultures, after that, communication
in international companies could be easier.
Reference list
Zhang,
L. (2011). How business professionals perceive intercultural differences: A survey.
Global Business Languages, 16,15-26. Retrieved from http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer
Excellent analysis Angela!
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