The second markets turn south, HR managers at big & medium sized companies start hearing a couple of half-truths that get repeated so often that they begin to make sense.  Â
The first myth is that hiring gets easier when business is slow and companies are having trouble. True, there is less active demand for talent during a recession. If [...]
Category Archives: Training
China HR Professionals must fight 2 bear-market myths.
October 22, 2008 – 12:56 am
The Train-Retain Dilemma – How do you hold on to your best human assets?
August 25, 2008 – 6:01 pm
Every HR manager knows that keeping your best employees is a major challenge. That bright but inexperienced college graduate you hired 18 months ago has suddenly become a highly skilled, well trained young executive. You have spent lots of time and money recruiting, training and developing his abilities, and now he is finally starting to [...]
China business and training ROI
August 22, 2008 – 11:33 pm
Smart China managers who are looking for the ROI from the their training program may be looking in the wrong place. Â Instead of looking for increased sales, maybe the ROI metric in China should be an HR retention number. Â Maybe we should measure training effectiveness in China through months on the job instead of money [...]
Smart China Staffing: More and Better are not the same Start at the Top
August 12, 2008 – 4:44 pm
Staffing used to be a difficult but relatively simple problem in China – fill seats with the highest quality people available. Standards were uniformly low, and performance ratings were more about attitude and language ability than accomplishments or transactions. ‘In the kingdom of the blind…’, and all that.
As the new year unfolds, your China HR [...]
Smart China Teams are no accident
August 10, 2008 – 12:01 am
In an ideal world, your experienced China hands and talented locals are freely volunteering their time and effort to younger team members to help them become successful. This world, as we know by now, is far from ideal. Your bright, shiny new hires may be getting great information and knowledge from their colleagues, or they [...]
Manpower Planning and Compensation Plans for China
August 9, 2008 – 11:59 pm
Chinese HR managers will face a tougher situation no matter what happens to the Chinese economy. If the Chinese economy keeps booming, then they are going to face a continuing wage spiral and shortages of key middle-managers.  If the economy slows down then they are going to be pressured to cut costs and hold on [...]
What is ‘Managerial Thinking’?
July 26, 2008 – 12:51 am
“Managerial Thinking” is one of those fashionable terms we hear a lot, but sometimes the meaning isn’t really clear. What is “managerial thinking”, and what does it mean to China’s professional managers?
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We defines managerial thinking as “being willing to take responsibility for EVERYTHING that happens in your department or company”. When we say “take responsibility”, [...]
