Principles of Sociology week 7 Individual Week 7: Week Seven – Individual Work Doing business in Chi

Principles
of Sociology week 7 Individual
Week
7: Week Seven – Individual Work
Doing business in
China:
I
have been asked to go to China to work in the country. The country culturally
and traditionally is Chinese and every person who lives there either on work
permit or on a visit definitely needs to know Chinese. Unless one has a working
knowledge of Chinese it becomes very difficult for one to communicate or even
conduct himself in the country. The culture
is different , the traditions are
different and so awkward translations
definitely come up when dealing with the Chinese. This is cross culture
differences and has to be taken up very strategically and carefully. The culture
differences have to be treated with great care and hence the business conduct
has to be taken up very circumspectively. The people here are used to the concept
of the working class and this makes them very sensitive to dealing with foreign nationals. The greatest misconception
that people have while dealing with the Chinese is their sense of accepting
gifts and benefits. They are very sensitive
to accepting any outside benefit and
they consider it to be against accepted
ethical rules hence, one needs to understand that groups compete for scarce resources and union movement is very
strong here. They have collective bargaining
power and use it very well to redress their grievance.

It is very difficult to do business across cultures. Unless business understands
the cultural implications of the business environment it will lend up making
very costly mistakes that may lead to the death knell of operations in china. Before a business starts out operations in a
foreign and a total hostile country, the most important thing is to understand
the implications of the cultural bonding and way of functioning. Unless the culture